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Channel
Pavel Durov
@feedpaul
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
21subscribers
-15 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1003881977228 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @feedpaul |
| Created | Between 1 February 2026 and 7 June 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/feedpaul |
Topic
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 30 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 75% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2026, 13:57 | 21 | -1 |
| 2 Oct 2026, 11:57 | 22 | -4 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 08:38 | 26 | -1 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 06:56 | 27 | -1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 12:02 | 28 | -1 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 21:59 | 29 | -5 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 00:32 | 34 | no change |
| 8 Aug 2026, 12:36 | 34 | -2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:34 | 36 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 7 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 23 June 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 54s
- Average length
- 11s
Measured directly from 5 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
134 reactions across 15 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 42.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| custom 5465587407350942612 | 57 | 42.5% | |
| custom 5265077361648368841 | 44 | 32.8% | |
| custom 5399847211989246390 | 33 | 24.6% |
Custom emoji. Every row above is a Telegram custom emoji, which the public preview renders as an element carrying only a numeric id — no character, and no image we can reach. The id is printed as-is rather than substituted with a look-alike glyph, because a stand-in would be our invention showing where a measurement should be. The counts beside them are Telegram’s.
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 15 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 134 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 7 June 2026 to 23 June 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
⛔️ The UK government wants to ban social media for children under 16. But banning social media for kids only puts them in greater danger. They will be pushed to use VPNs — and unlock far worse illegal content. We’ve seen this before. When the Russian government banned Telegram, 95% of Russian teenagers kept using it. They just moved to VPNs. Same in Iran. Parents already have the tools to restrict their kids’ di…
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🚫 India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions. This punishes 150 million ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials. And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps. 🛡 We’ve done a lot to help fix the problem — even though its source is not Telegram. Over the past few weeks, we removed hundreds of c…
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⚠️ Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking. 🧨 The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports. 😞 This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp. 🌐 Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements …
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🔄 Telegram’s new update is out. Lots of great new features. 😂 But most importantly: the announcement is actually fun to read.
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🖥 Don't be surprised if you see tables, nested lists, inline media, formulas, headers and more in Telegram messages. 📖 We now support rich formatting for all chatbots. 🔨 Start building! Docs for chatbot devs →
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⌚️ A fully native Telegram app for Apple Watch is out.
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⌚️ Telegram is now on Wear OS. Owners of Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, Xiaomi Watch and other smartwatches — enjoy! ☕️
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🤖 Your Telegram inbox can now run itself. Assign a bot to read and reply for you — with granular control over its rights and chat access. 🧠 ⚙️ Start building!
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🎭 WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud. 🇺🇸 The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to “virtually all” private messages. Now we know what WhatsApp’s founder meant when he said he “sold his users’ privacy.” Stay safe — stay Telegram! 📱
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @feedpaul. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Mentions
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Pavel Durov” (@feedpaul), 21 subscribers as measured 12 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/feedpaul.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.