Channel
@maldivesindependent
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
142subscribers
+1 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002279780264 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @maldivesindependent |
| Created | Between 1 September 2024 and 31 March 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 17 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 17 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/maldivesindependent |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Sept 2026, 03:57 | 142 | +1 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 17:20 | 141 | +1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 15:25 | 140 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 22:16 | 141 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:58 | 141 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 29 July 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 8 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
3 reactions across 3 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 66.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 2 | 66.7% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 33.3% |
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 4 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 3 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 29 July 2026 to 8 August 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.
A woman in a lilac libaas stands beside another in emerald green, leaning against a coral stone house. The photograph is from the 1970s. Nothing about it was remarkable at the time. Traditional Maldivian dress hasn't disappeared. It has retreated into wardrobes, weddings and official ceremonies, emerging only when an occasion calls for it – and those occasions are getting rarer. Angel Shujau spoke to three Maldivia…
A huge thank you to the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) for featuring Maldives Independent in this month's Member Spotlight. We're incredibly grateful to be part of the GFMD community and to stand alongside so many inspiring organisations working to strengthen independent media around the world. If you'd like to learn more about our journey, our mission and what we've been building since our return, you c…
News in Brief Thursday, August 6 https://maldivesindependent.com/news-in-brief/three-missing-excess-liquidity-and-halal-tourism-a358
On 16 May, the government told the world that Sergeant First Class Mohamed Mahudhee – the Coast Guard diver sent into the Devana Kandu caves to recover the bodies of four Italian divers – was found unconscious by his fellow divers and died of decompression sickness. His family says that is not what happened. According to his brother, drawing on accounts from the divers involved and footage shown to the family by th…
News in Brief Wednesday, August 5 https://maldivesindependent.com/news-in-brief/central-authority-dead-accounts-and-audit-symposium-0811
A fire on Thilafushi on the night of 19 July took nearly 12 hours to control. Rubbish then piled up on the streets of Malé for two weeks and MPs argued over where to send 50 tonnes of burnt waste. Behind it all is a mountain the environment ministry's own waste chief says could give way – on an island that takes 800 tonnes a day and has run out of room. The government's answer is a US$40 million incinerator. Critic…
News in Brief Tuesday, August 4 https://maldivesindependent.com/news-in-brief/hulhumal-mosques-lga-election-and-bml-restructure-2a3d
Transparency Maldives has published its review of the April 4 local council elections, Women's Development Committee elections and constitutional referendum – the most operationally complex electoral day since 2008. State resources turned up at 30 per cent of ruling party campaign events and 12 per cent of the main opposition party's. The state broadcaster published 11 articles favouring the referendum and not one …
News in Brief Monday, August 3 https://maldivesindependent.com/news-in-brief/project-blame-open-votes-and-concealed-drugs-5945
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Every year between May and August, the footage starts circulating: water surging over harbour walls, running through streets, ruining farms and getting into the groundwater. Maldivians call it udha. But not everything that spills over a seawall is udha. Ordinary overtopping is local. Udha begins as a storm in the Roaring Forties, thousands of kilometres to the south, crosses the entire Indian Ocean as long-period sw…
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News in Brief Sunday, August 2 https://maldivesindependent.com/news-in-brief/mdp-protest-waste-segregation-and-subsidy-budget-da90
OPINION: Nationalise the resorts. From Kurumba Village in 1972 to today's foreign-dominated ownership, Mahal Ibrahim Abdulla traces five decades of the resort industry and argues that public ownership – not state ownership, and not another MTDC – is the way out. He also makes the case for halving the number of resorts and repurposing the islands for people to live on. This is an opinion piece. The views are the au…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @maldivesindependent. 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.
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 17 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Maldives Independent” (@maldivesindependent), 142 subscribers as measured 17 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/maldivesindependent.
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.