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Level Up IAS (Official Channel)

@levelupias

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21,606subscribers

-69 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001284169839
TypeChannel
Username@levelupias
DescriptionThis is the official channel of Level Up IAS. Visit our website http://levelupias.com
CreatedBetween 1 April 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live9 October 2026
Measurements held34
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 9 October 2026
On Telegramt.me/levelupias

Topic

Education — 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 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% 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

21,60621,70421,6556 August 2026 — 21,675 subscribers7 August 2026 — 21,672 subscribers8 August 2026 — 21,668 subscribers10 August 2026 — 21,659 subscribers11 August 2026 — 21,656 subscribers12 August 2026 — 21,648 subscribers13 August 2026 — 21,646 subscribers14 August 2026 — 21,637 subscribers16 August 2026 — 21,626 subscribers17 August 2026 — 21,625 subscribers19 August 2026 — 21,636 subscribers21 August 2026 — 21,635 subscribers22 August 2026 — 21,655 subscribers24 August 2026 — 21,660 subscribers25 August 2026 — 21,655 subscribers26 August 2026 — 21,658 subscribers27 August 2026 — 21,662 subscribers28 August 2026 — 21,660 subscribers29 August 2026 — 21,661 subscribers30 August 2026 — 21,656 subscribers31 August 2026 — 21,666 subscribers1 September 2026 — 21,684 subscribers2 September 2026 — 21,678 subscribers3 September 2026 — 21,688 subscribers5 September 2026 — 21,704 subscribers8 September 2026 — 21,699 subscribers11 September 2026 — 21,682 subscribers13 September 2026 — 21,685 subscribers14 September 2026 — 21,683 subscribers16 September 2026 — 21,681 subscribers19 September 2026 — 21,673 subscribers26 September 2026 — 21,647 subscribers4 October 2026 — 21,621 subscribers9 October 2026 — 21,606 subscribers6 August 20269 October 2026
34 measurements spanning 63 days, net -69. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 21,591–21,719 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 34
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
9 Oct 2026, 01:0121,606-15
4 Oct 2026, 11:5621,621-26
26 Sept 2026, 01:0021,647-26
19 Sept 2026, 09:3921,673-8
16 Sept 2026, 19:1721,681-2
14 Sept 2026, 19:2021,683-2
13 Sept 2026, 03:1921,685+3
11 Sept 2026, 02:3821,682-17
8 Sept 2026, 03:0021,699-5
5 Sept 2026, 02:1621,704+16
3 Sept 2026, 08:3921,688+10
2 Sept 2026, 04:2321,678-6
1 Sept 2026, 03:5921,684+18
31 Aug 2026, 03:2721,666+10
30 Aug 2026, 05:4821,656-5
29 Aug 2026, 03:1321,661+1
28 Aug 2026, 05:4421,660-2
27 Aug 2026, 03:2821,662+4
26 Aug 2026, 03:0221,658+3
25 Aug 2026, 04:5921,655first reading

Engagement

205 posts held, back to 4 August 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 68 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
3.34%
avg views ÷ 21,606 subscribers
Avg views / post
722
74 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.171%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
75
of 205 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 24 of 74 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 9 October 2026
Posts held205 (4 August 2026 – 9 October 2026)
Views total53,432
Reactions total30
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken9 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
≈3,990
Videos
≈19
Links
≈3,280

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 9 October 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.

Reaction mix

158 reactions across 79 posts, in 5 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 91.1% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
❤14491.1%
👍95.70%
🔥31.90%
👏10.633%
🙏10.633%

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 91 of the 205 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 158 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 205 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 9 October 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

9 Oct 2026, 14:32 UTC171 viewsread 9 October 2026
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9 Oct 2026, 13:56 UTCviews —

Level Up IAS (Official Channel) pinned «🚨 SESSION UPDATE | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY – UPSC CSE 2027 The Science & Technology Current Affairs session with Santosh Kumar Sir, scheduled for 10th October, has been rescheduled to the next day, 11th Oct 2026 📅 New Date: 11th October 2026 | 11 AM 💻 Live…»

9 Oct 2026, 13:55 UTC275 viewsread 9 October 2026

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9 Oct 2026, 13:02 UTC332 viewsread 9 October 2026
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9 Oct 2026, 12:46 UTC282 viewsread 9 October 2026

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9 Oct 2026, 11:33 UTC373 viewsread 9 October 2026
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9 Oct 2026, 10:31 UTC346 viewsread 9 October 2026
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9 Oct 2026, 09:34 UTC364 viewsread 9 October 2026
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9 Oct 2026, 08:34 UTC385 viewsread 9 October 2026
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9 Oct 2026, 07:32 UTC378 viewsread 9 October 2026
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9 Oct 2026, 06:31 UTC906 viewsread 9 October 2026
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9 Oct 2026, 05:32 UTC465 viewsread 9 October 2026
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Showing the 12 most recent of 205 posts we hold for @levelupias. 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.

Posts edited after publishing

@levelupias edited 3 posts after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.

An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.

First edit seen
11 August 2026
Most recent edit
30 August 2026

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Named by

Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.

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.

Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one

Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.

Nikhil Sheth - History and Culture
@nikhilhistoryculture · 14,201
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#2
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@Santoshkumarcurrentaffairs · 17,498
#3
Nikhil Sheth History Optional (UPSC)
@nikhilhistoryoptional · 7,565
#4
ECONOMY by VIVEK SINGH
@VivekSingh_Economy · 131,925
#5
TEJAL KHANDELWAL STUDY CENTRE : PSIR, GS PII, ESSAY
@psirtejalk124 · 571
#6
Atish Mathur Official
@csepaper2atish · 117,489
#7
Sunya IAS Short Notes
@sunyanotes50 · 190,734
#8
Clarity for UPSC by Dr.Shivin (AIR - 297)
@theanonymousupscaspirant · 255,763
#9
CSE 2027 🧘🏻
@upscjunta · 3,601
#10
Neeraj Rao & Culture Quantum ®
@culturequantum · 11,319
#11
CSE Decode 🏇🏻
@upscdecoding · 3,228
#12
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@theiashub · 39,749
#13
Scaling UPSC - Preksha Agrawal
@scaling_upsc · 8,383
#14
S&T by JWALA KUMAR
@Science_by_Jwala · 4,806
#15
Sleepy Classes IAS
@SleepyClasses · 83,737
#16
UPSC Sociology Current Affairs | CSENow | IAS Mentorship | UPSC Mentorship | UPSC Sociology Mentorship
@Sociology_CurrentAffairs · 11,758
#17
UPSC-2027 by CSE Topper
@csetopper_2027 · 16,863
#18
Tejas, AIR 37 : Navigating the UPSC Labyrinth
@tjtalkss · 12,565
#19
UPSC-CSE with Team GG 🗿
@TeamKJS · 84,527
#20
Dr Neha Goyal, IDAS
@DrNeha_anthropology · 25,175
#21
Simplifying UPSC with Kunal Rastogi(AIR 15)
@ias_raskun · 9,924
#22
HISTORY OPTIONAL
@HISTORY_OPTIONAL_Batch · 1,185
#23
UnderStand UPSC
@UnderStandUPSC · 114,082
#24
BALIYANS SIR HISTORY VIDEOS
@baliyans_sir_history_videos_dh · 1,685
#25
History Optional by DIADEMY IAS
@historydiademy · 1,525
#26
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@vishnuiaschannel · 15,426
#27
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@upscjaipuraspirant · 158 (as read 23 September 2026)
#28
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@sociologyoptional4 · 862
#29
Sunya IAS - Sociology
@sociology_sunyaias · 25,430
#30
CSENow IAS Mentorship by Avinash & Ankur | UPSC Mentorship | IAS |
@CSEnow · 2,293
#31
Chandana Jahnavi- AIR 50 UPSC 2023
@chandanajahnavi · 17,190
#32
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@UPSCPrepLadder · 2,482
#33
CivicCentre IAS (Official)
@civiccentredotin · 27,540
#34
Nausheen (RANK 9, UPSC CSE 2023)
@nausheeeeeeen · 14,328
#35
Enlight IAS (Official)
@EnlightIAS8_official · 135,271
#36
Pratik Agrawal (AIR 156, UPSC CSE 2021)
@impratikagrawal · 6,261
#37
Smriti Shah_UPSC
@smriti_shah · 63,001
#38
ABCD of UPSC by Vikas Dhayal
@ABCD_of_UPSC · 61,114
#39
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@vajiramandraviofficial · 282,173
#40
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@rahulsri064 · 12,573
#41
Asad Zuberi AIR 86 UPSC Resources
@asad_zuberi · 22,980
#42
StudyIQ Interview Guidance Program (IGP)
@StudyIQ_IGP · 2,929
#43
Peeyush Kumar_UPSC
@peeyushupsc · 39,716
#44
RRP+(LA EX IAS)
@LAEXRRP · 3,736
#45
Vision IAS Prelims Test Series 2027
@vision_ias_test_series2027 · 10,047
#46
ESSAY AND ETHICS
@wqFymRHydjo4YTM1 · 2,887
#47
LUCENT IAS
@LucentIAS · 4,466
#48
Optimize IAS
@asksantoshsir · 36,712
#49
SuperKalam IAS
@superkalam · 39,505
#50
NEXT IAS (Official)
@nextiasofficial · 53,100
#51
JUST UPSC PYQ
@justupscpyq · 33,316
#52
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@shubhambhaisare_ias · 12,287
#53
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@successclap · 3,074
#54
UPSC Optionals ,essay and MGP forum
@upsccsechaicoffee · 2,544
#55
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@csetopper_appsc · 1,606
#56
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@MENTORAIAS · 75,732
#57
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@benjopjose · 16,456
#58
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@saurabhPolity · 1
#59
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@csp23info · 46,499
#60
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@BharatBlossoms · 198
#61
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@unacademyclass11_12hindimedium · 673
#62
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@upendra333 · 1,398
#63
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@AddyyStudyCorner · 231
#64
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@civiccentreiasacademy · 2,303
#65
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@ishansinha234 · 5,049 (as read 23 September 2026)
#66
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@jpscrank1savitri · 3,736
#67
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@blumcrypto · 13,780,476
#68
Anshul Bhatt AIR 22
@anshulbhattias · 13,570
#69
Invincible Captain
@Official_Captain_Invincible · 10,223
#70
India Gk Quiz
@Bihar_Police_Teacher_India_Gk_GS · 33,379
#71
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@L2AIAS · 2,218
#72
Carl Crypto Signals
@carlcryptosignals · 264
#73
DOGS Community
@dogs · 6,827,445
#74
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@RBI_NABARD_VyasaIAS · 756
#75
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@vaidikaxerox2 · 1,459
#76
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@notcoin · 8,358,639
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#78
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Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 23 September 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

India Gk Quiz
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@DrNeha_anthropology · 25,175
Telegram ranks this channel #15 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 15 September 2026
saurabhpolity
@saurabhPolity · 1
Telegram ranks this channel #48 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 18 September 2026
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@asad_zuberi · 22,980
Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 19 September 2026

This channel appears in 4 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

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 9 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Level Up IAS (Official Channel)” (@levelupias), 21,606 subscribers as measured 9 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/levelupias.

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.