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Matn Plus(متن پلاس)

@matnpluss

On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Stars · Posts · Polls · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry

22,071subscribers

+357 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-1001205523897
TypeChannel
Username@matnpluss
CreatedBetween 1 March 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live25 October 2026
Measurements held46
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 25 October 2026
On Telegramt.me/matnpluss

Topic

Other / unclassifiable — 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

21,52622,42021,9736 August 2026 — 21,714 subscribers6 August 2026 — 21,712 subscribers7 August 2026 — 21,705 subscribers8 August 2026 — 21,693 subscribers9 August 2026 — 21,694 subscribers10 August 2026 — 21,688 subscribers11 August 2026 — 21,685 subscribers12 August 2026 — 21,686 subscribers14 August 2026 — 21,668 subscribers15 August 2026 — 21,652 subscribers17 August 2026 — 21,644 subscribers18 August 2026 — 21,641 subscribers19 August 2026 — 21,629 subscribers20 August 2026 — 21,624 subscribers21 August 2026 — 21,622 subscribers22 August 2026 — 21,601 subscribers24 August 2026 — 21,584 subscribers25 August 2026 — 21,581 subscribers26 August 2026 — 21,579 subscribers27 August 2026 — 21,572 subscribers29 August 2026 — 21,561 subscribers30 August 2026 — 21,552 subscribers31 August 2026 — 21,554 subscribers1 September 2026 — 21,547 subscribers4 September 2026 — 21,537 subscribers6 September 2026 — 21,526 subscribers9 September 2026 — 22,420 subscribers12 September 2026 — 22,407 subscribers13 September 2026 — 22,393 subscribers15 September 2026 — 22,386 subscribers17 September 2026 — 22,380 subscribers25 September 2026 — 22,348 subscribers3 October 2026 — 22,270 subscribers8 October 2026 — 22,232 subscribers12 October 2026 — 22,209 subscribers14 October 2026 — 22,197 subscribers15 October 2026 — 22,186 subscribers16 October 2026 — 22,181 subscribers17 October 2026 — 22,169 subscribers19 October 2026 — 22,150 subscribers20 October 2026 — 22,140 subscribers21 October 2026 — 22,133 subscribers22 October 2026 — 22,120 subscribers23 October 2026 — 22,104 subscribers24 October 2026 — 22,083 subscribers25 October 2026 — 22,071 subscribers22,0716 August 202625 October 2026
46 measurements spanning 80 days, net +357. 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 21,392–22,554 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 46
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
25 Oct 2026, 17:1122,071-12
24 Oct 2026, 15:4922,083-21
23 Oct 2026, 18:1722,104-16
22 Oct 2026, 16:2922,120-13
21 Oct 2026, 07:5122,133-7
20 Oct 2026, 08:0722,140-10
19 Oct 2026, 08:2622,150-19
17 Oct 2026, 09:2622,169-12
16 Oct 2026, 11:3722,181-5
15 Oct 2026, 13:1722,186-11
14 Oct 2026, 11:3622,197-12
12 Oct 2026, 19:4922,209-23
8 Oct 2026, 10:2222,232-38
3 Oct 2026, 21:4122,270-78
25 Sept 2026, 00:1622,348-32
17 Sept 2026, 08:5922,380-6
15 Sept 2026, 09:5722,386-7
13 Sept 2026, 17:5622,393-14
12 Sept 2026, 02:0122,407-13
9 Sept 2026, 16:0222,420first reading

Engagement

87 posts held, back to 22 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 79 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
16.7%
avg views ÷ 22,071 subscribers
Avg views / post
3,680
17 posts measured
Reaction rate
3.02%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
17
of 87 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.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 11 October 2026
Posts held87 (22 July 2026 – 11 October 2026)
Views total62,610
Reactions total1,888
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken12 Oct 2026, 23:02 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

Video runtime
4m 00s
Average length
13s

Measured directly from 18 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

9,361 reactions across 87 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 55.0% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
❤5,15355.0%
👍2,02321.6%
💔95710.2%
😍4424.72%
🕊3383.61%
❤‍🔥2802.99%
😢1361.45%
👎190.203%
😈130.139%

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 87 of the 87 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 9,361 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 87 most recent posts we hold, published 22 July 2026 to 11 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.

Telegram Stars

Stars received
1
across the posts below
Posts paid on
1
of 87 we hold a reading for · 1%
Most on one post
1
single highest reading

A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @matnpluss. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.

Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.

This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.

Counted over the 87 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 22 July 2026 to 11 October 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.

Recent posts

11 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC≈1,500 views145 reactionsread 12 October 2026

هر شب قبل از خواب مطمئن بشین که همه تلاش خودتونو کردین .. بقیه‌ اش در کنترل شما نیست و هر نتیجه‌ای بدست بیاد شما برنده‌اید @Matnpluss

❤100👍16💔12❤‍🔥11👎3🕊3

10 Oct 2026, 19:29 UTC≈2,450 views111 reactionsread 12 October 2026
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دختران زیبایِ سرزمینم روزتون مبارک❤️🌱 @Matnpluss

❤80😍16🕊13❤‍🔥2

Signed Eli! シ︎

9 Oct 2026, 21:33 UTC≈2,510 views96 reactionsread 12 October 2026
Photo

@Matnpluss

❤69👍15🕊9❤‍🔥2💔1

7 Oct 2026, 06:29 UTC≈3,480 views140 reactionsread 12 October 2026

هرچیزی که متقابل باشه، تا ابد ادامه داره درک،ادب،احترام،عشق @Matnpluss

❤100👍35❤‍🔥5

5 Oct 2026, 21:12 UTC≈3,430 views93 reactionsread 12 October 2026
Photo

@Matnpluss

👍81❤‍🔥7❤3👎2

5 Oct 2026, 21:12 UTC≈3,060 views93 reactionsread 12 October 2026
Photo

@Matnpluss

❤58👍30❤‍🔥3💔2

4 Oct 2026, 19:37 UTC≈3,500 views203 reactionsread 12 October 2026

می‌گفت نجات دهنده در آینه است ولی بیاید قبول کنیم نجات دهنده گاهی خانواده است، رفیقه، یه کتابه، یه پادکسته، یه مهارته، یه پیاده رویه، یه قهوست، یه حمومه، گاهی آشنایی با آدم‌ها و تجربه‌های جدیده، شاید یه فیلم یا سریاله، موسیقیه، تراپیسته، همیشه دنبال نجات دهنده تو آینه نگرد، اون هم گاهی خسته می‌شه و از پس خودش بر نمیاد.🙃 @Matnpluss

❤117👍76💔6❤‍🔥2😍2

Signed Eli! シ︎

4 Oct 2026, 08:32 UTC≈3,510 views95 reactionsread 12 October 2026

گاهی در زندگی، قرار نیست همیشه بجنگی یا فرار کنی؛ بعضی وقت‌ها قدرت واقعی در «ماندن» است. ماندن پای خودت، پای باورهایت و پای مسیری که انتخاب کرده‌ای؛ حتی وقتی شرایط سخت و طوفانی است. «مثل کوه» که نماد استواری و آرام ماندن در برابر سختی‌هاست.⁩🏔❣️ ‌‌@Matnpluss

❤77❤‍🔥8🕊5💔4👍1

Signed Eli! シ︎

Showing the 12 most recent of 87 posts we hold for @matnpluss. 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.

Polls

The poll we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered it when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.

29 Aug 2026, 09:22 UTCAnonymous Poll373 voters

اجازه میدی که آدمها مسیر زندگیت رو عوض کنن؟!

  1. آره زیاد اینکارو کردم متن پلاس15%
  2. نه، دیگران فقط اجازه دارن تا مشوق باشن یا کمک کنن55%
  3. من هنوز مسیرمو پیدا نکردم35%

The shares total 105%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.

Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.

The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.

Read from the 87 most recent posts we hold, published 22 July 2026 to 11 October 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.

Forward network

Republished by

Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.

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.

مجله هنرى ژوان🕊
@zhuanchannel · 220,140
#1
ꜰɪᴋᴀ | فیکا
@fika_note · 1,908
#2
حوالی من🌱
@Shahrzad_Diary · 1,442
#3
Fikamusic|فیکا موزیک
@musicfika · 1,694
#4
Freely
@Freely · 49,739
#5
حال دچار🌱
@haledochar · 3,822
#6
استور‌ی خاص
@StoryeKhas · 98,446
#7
GyGart
@gygart · 1,809
#8
استوری پلاس➕
@Pluss_Story · 32,814
#9
محسن محمدی نیا🧑🏻‍🏫🌐
@mohsen_mohammadinia · 3,013
#10
رهروان حقیقت
@rahrovanehaghighat · 3,129
#11
°یک ثانیه | 00:01°
@yek_saniyeh · 5,810
#12
hihopefully
@hihopefully · 20,958
#13
حس خوب آرامش🌱
@Hesse_Arammesh · 80,183
#14
فوق انگیزشی | روانشناسی موفقیت
@angizeshi75 · 120,532
#15
• موج انرژی مثبت •
@MojeMosbatChannel · 12,469
#16
آذر کی منش ماما، لیدر،کوچ و تیچر بین المللی یوگای خنده از دانشگاه جهانی خنده هند.
@azarkeymanesh · 460
#17
روان پلاس➕ | کنکور روانشناسے
@ravaanplus · 1,734 (as read 20 September 2026)
#18
Yoga vibes
@yogaavibes · 980 (as read 20 September 2026)
#19
خوشبختی | Khoshbakhti
@khoshbakhtihub · 3,752
#20
متن‌نگار
@matnnegar · 11,669
#21
BOOK | کتاب
@BooksCom · 60,969
#22
ژیکان
@zhikangraphic · 23,818
#23
شازده کوچولو | داستان کوتاه
@ShazdeKooCholou · 12,047
#24
پِ مثلِ پاییز 🍁
@Pe_mesle_paeiz0 · 25,451
#25
Accio corporation
@acciocorporation · 5,694
#26
حس،نگار✔️
@HessNegar · 23,329
#27
Moti20.ir 🚀
@moti20 · 10,313
#28
بوقت چای
@TimeChay · 56,104
#29
زیبا بشنویم
@ziba_beshnavim · 24,407 (as read 20 September 2026)
#30
زیبای هاے طبیـ؏ت و آفرینش🤎
@afarinesh8 · 44,478
#31
Avamuzix
@avamuzix · 19,994
#32
Dreamland
@Dreaaamlaaand · 233 (as read 20 September 2026)
#33
لاویز
@laaviiz · 1,672
#34
|مجله هُنری زَرد|
@rang_zard · 30,196
#35
☯️RonaAstrology☯️
@RonaHoroscope · 7,542
#36
mhsayi
@mhsayiii · 5,828
#37
Alim Academy
@alim_academy · 1,944
#38
کاریابی فراکار
@farakaar · 2,743
#39
الکلی های گمنام AA
@billw_drbobsmit · 3,834
#40
معصومه صابر
@masoomesaber · 4,725
#41
قایق ...
@ghayegh3noghte · 2,280
#42
انعکاس رویا | Enekase Roya
@enekase_roya · 6,447
#43
آموزش الایت موشن/اسماعیل مهرجوش
@esmailedit · 12,082
#44
صبح روجا | sobherooja | شمال
@sobherooja · 1,791
#45
فونت استوری | fonto | فونتو
@fontoapp · 9,517
#46
آریا کیا سفر
@ariakiasafar_travel_holding · 2,306
#47
-‌دنبالش خواهی گشت.
@asalaryapour · 259
#48
ترانه نوشت TaraneNevesht
@taranenevesht · 33,942
#49
Graphic & Creativity
@GC_Art · 8,889
#50
𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 | هیلان 🌻
@Hilan_Konkoor · 96
#51
استخدامی آژانس های هواپیمایی
@mtravel · 4,027
#52
H A P P Y ➕
@happy_pluse · 67,293
#53
کافــــونه 🍃
@hich9pouch · 4,153
#54
Mimhaghaf | میم حا قاف
@mimhaghaf · 6,203
#55
🅿🆁🅾🅼🅿🆃🅲🅷🅸
@footbalista_video · 725 (as read 20 September 2026)
#56
🌿قوارير على الفطرة🕊️
@nisaaelafitra · 1,829
#57
سایت آفتاب لارستان
@aftablarestan · 1,196
#58
متینه روحی /کمپین فروش/سناریو استوری
@matinehrouhii · 19,867
#59
Mahshidphotos
@mahshidphotos · 2,135
#60
کارای کوچیک مفید روزانه (توییتریا)
@Twitteriaaa · 184
#61
استوری تلگرام
@estory_tell · 24,941
#62
Houmak
@houmak · 7,183
#63
[ تکست بیو ]️
@TxTBiwo · 36,717
#64
خوب شد | khoob shod
@khoob_shod · 12,028
#65
NicA Iran
@Nicotine_anonymous · 212
#66
[ Giioomeh ] 🕊
@giioomeh1 · 17,256
#67
عاشقانه های "من و بانو"
@Manvbano · 2,795
#68
استوریجات...🦊
@sttoryiinstaa · 11,538
#69
استوری|ویدیو خام|عکس خام
@fadiastory · 15,915
#70
🎯آکادمی‌‌تحصیلی‌دکتر‌سبحان‌افشار🎯
@KonkoorDrAfshar · 2,774
#71
رادیو خیمه
@Radiokheyme · 18,131
#72
مشاوره تحصیلی ساغر ظهرابی
@zohrabimoshavere · 180 (as read 20 September 2026)
#73
🎭 تئاترکده 🎭
@theaterkade · 4,471
#74
Pouyanights
@pouyanights · 10,305
#75
@SeelenOdem /Das atmende Leben🤍
@SeelenOdem · 1,042
#76
نرخ لحظه ای ارز
@nilgamex · 663 (as read 20 September 2026)
#77
Maria
@mariah_music · 1,922
#78
تاریخ کمش دپه "دوغدیق مکان"
@begenj1 · 1,265 (as read 20 September 2026)
#79
استخدام داروساز و تکنسین
@pharma_estekhdam · 4,018
#80
حرکات بدنسازی sci4fit
@sci4photo · 18,370 (as read 20 September 2026)
#81

Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 20 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.

Freely
@Freely · 49,739
Telegram ranks this channel #16 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 25 August 2026
استور‌ی خاص
@StoryeKhas · 98,446
Telegram ranks this channel #19 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 15 August 2026
استوری پلاس➕
@Pluss_Story · 32,814
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 3 September 2026
کافه ریلکس
@CafeReIax · 43,986
Telegram ranks this channel #27 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 27 August 2026
BOOK | کتاب
@BooksCom · 60,969
Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 21 August 2026
H A P P Y ➕
@happy_pluse · 67,293
Telegram ranks this channel #36 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 19 August 2026
حس خوب آرامش🌱
@Hesse_Arammesh · 80,183
Telegram ranks this channel #44 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 19 August 2026
|مجله هُنری زَرد|
@rang_zard · 30,196
Telegram ranks this channel #53 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 7 September 2026
‌[ Embrace ]
@Embrace · 48,670
Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 25 August 2026
فوق انگیزشی | روانشناسی موفقیت
@angizeshi75 · 120,532
Telegram ranks this channel #59 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 14 August 2026
[ تکست بیو ]️
@TxTBiwo · 36,717
Telegram ranks this channel #65 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 1 September 2026
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@taranenevesht · 33,942
Telegram ranks this channel #78 of 95 here — alongside 94 others — read 3 September 2026

This channel appears in 12 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

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

“Matn Plus(متن پلاس)” (@matnpluss), 22,071 subscribers as measured 25 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/matnpluss.

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.