{
 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @mechanical_c",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/mechanical_c",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11T12:15:34.219Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 12,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-07T16:36:57.049Z",
   "to": "2026-09-06T05:39:32.943Z"
  },
  "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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   "source": 0
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-08T00:11:27.963Z",
   "subscribers": 8279,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-11T03:27:15.548Z",
   "subscribers": 8341,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-14T18:24:20.634Z",
   "subscribers": 8380,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-18T03:41:53.329Z",
   "subscribers": 8399,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-20T22:56:03.863Z",
   "subscribers": 8412,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-24T13:29:07.946Z",
   "subscribers": 8417,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-24T21:48:03.813Z",
   "subscribers": 8417,
   "source": 1
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-27T06:12:54.178Z",
   "subscribers": 8421,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-30T03:57:46.776Z",
   "subscribers": 8415,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-02T06:53:36.999Z",
   "subscribers": 8472,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-06T05:39:32.943Z",
   "subscribers": 8466,
   "source": 4
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