{
 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @marginal_cat",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/marginal_cat",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-08-18T15:00:26.040Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 11,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-07T18:51:49.499Z",
   "to": "2026-08-18T11:25:36.505Z"
  },
  "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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   "ts": "2026-08-07T18:51:49.499Z",
   "subscribers": 15631,
   "source": 0
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-07T19:00:56.530Z",
   "subscribers": 15631,
   "source": 3
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-08T13:11:53.602Z",
   "subscribers": 15626,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-09T15:11:58.442Z",
   "subscribers": 15613,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-10T18:08:10.678Z",
   "subscribers": 15608,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-11T16:17:40.726Z",
   "subscribers": 15598,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-12T19:13:38.890Z",
   "subscribers": 15595,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-14T05:18:44.241Z",
   "subscribers": 15591,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-15T16:38:27.716Z",
   "subscribers": 15582,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-17T09:24:37.013Z",
   "subscribers": 15578,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-18T11:25:36.505Z",
   "subscribers": 15574,
   "source": 4
  }
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}