{
 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @gitbig_chat",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/gitbig_chat",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-08-22T19:41:46.265Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 16,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-07T08:54:03.355Z",
   "to": "2026-08-22T16:43:39.673Z"
  },
  "columns": {
   "ts": "when this reading was taken, UTC",
   "subscribers": "the count read (or, for source 3, carried over) — see source below",
   "source": {
    "0": "sweep.py — t.me/<name> profile page",
    "1": "promote.py — Bot API getChat",
    "2": "resolve.py — MTProto",
    "3": "spromote.py — t.me/s/<name> post preview (figure carried over from an earlier profile read, not the preview’s own rounded header)",
    "4": "remeasure.py — t.me/<name> profile page, re-read on a schedule"
   }
  },
  "note": "Snapshots are written only when a reading changes: a gap in ts means \"no change observed between readings\", never \"not measured\" and never \"interpolated\". Readings from different sources are separate lineages that do not confirm one another — subtracting across them can attribute a change to a period nothing was actually read in. Full method: https://tgregister.com/methodology#measuring"
 },
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   "subscribers": 17716,
   "source": 0
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-07T16:08:52.132Z",
   "subscribers": 17701,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-08T19:22:39.580Z",
   "subscribers": 17710,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-09T22:23:10.670Z",
   "subscribers": 17719,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-10T22:37:51.230Z",
   "subscribers": 17713,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-11T22:24:37.431Z",
   "subscribers": 17726,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-13T00:07:05.990Z",
   "subscribers": 17723,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-14T09:58:51.678Z",
   "subscribers": 17738,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-15T19:25:02.340Z",
   "subscribers": 17713,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-17T10:22:18.515Z",
   "subscribers": 17699,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-17T17:35:43.297Z",
   "subscribers": 17699,
   "source": 1
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-18T10:54:52.528Z",
   "subscribers": 17697,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-19T13:52:21.318Z",
   "subscribers": 17911,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-20T11:24:19.672Z",
   "subscribers": 18049,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-21T09:07:59.084Z",
   "subscribers": 18031,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-22T16:43:39.673Z",
   "subscribers": 18145,
   "source": 4
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