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Created
5 November 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 52% 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
35 measurements spanning 44 days, net -2,109. 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 48,493–51,234 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 35
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
18 Sept 2026, 16:57
48,809
-95
16 Sept 2026, 06:16
48,904
-59
14 Sept 2026, 15:36
48,963
-80
13 Sept 2026, 00:39
49,043
-85
11 Sept 2026, 03:41
49,128
-102
8 Sept 2026, 08:00
49,230
-119
5 Sept 2026, 04:17
49,349
-107
3 Sept 2026, 08:39
49,456
-43
1 Sept 2026, 23:15
49,499
-35
31 Aug 2026, 19:43
49,534
-14
30 Aug 2026, 19:47
49,548
-31
29 Aug 2026, 21:54
49,579
-44
28 Aug 2026, 21:23
49,623
-83
27 Aug 2026, 18:25
49,706
-35
26 Aug 2026, 20:34
49,741
-52
25 Aug 2026, 18:02
49,793
-60
24 Aug 2026, 16:36
49,853
-79
23 Aug 2026, 04:14
49,932
-72
21 Aug 2026, 17:45
50,004
-75
20 Aug 2026, 16:08
50,079
first reading
Engagement
39 posts held, back to 25 June 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 104 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
29.5%
avg views ÷ 48,809 subscribers
Avg views / post
14,400
9 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.83%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
9
of 39 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
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 26 September 2026
Posts held
39 (25 June 2026 – 26 September 2026)
Views total
129,790
Reactions total
1,077
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
26 Sept 2026, 18:22 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
≈1,440
Videos
≈3
Links
≈264
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 26 September 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
8,335 reactions across 39 posts, in 14 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 34.9% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
😢
2,906
34.9%
😁
1,386
16.6%
🤬
1,137
13.6%
🤔
862
10.3%
😱
638
7.65%
🤯
425
5.10%
❤
345
4.14%
👍
159
1.91%
🔥
156
1.87%
🎉
111
1.33%
👏
89
1.07%
🤩
66
0.792%
👎
28
0.336%
🥰
27
0.324%
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 39 of the 39 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 8,335 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 39 most recent posts we hold, published 25 June 2026 to 26 September 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.
⚠️ Update: Metrics show a new disruption on the network of Cosmonova after a Russian drone attack on the company's data center in Kyiv, which the Russian MoD claims is linked to the supply of Starlink communications to Ukraine's military.
⚠️ Update: Metrics show that Russia's bombardment of Ukraine data centers has continued, with new disruptions observed on networks downstream of Datagroup earlier today, marking a new focus on the disruption of digital infrastructure
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data indicate a subnational internet disruption in northern #Ethiopia corresponding to reports of a telecoms blackout in #Tigray. The incident comes amid escalating conflict between Tigrayan forces and the national army 📉
ℹ️ ICYMI: At least four Kyiv internet providers and their downstreams serving #Ukraine experienced a partial loss of connectivity on Wednesday morning; the disruptions are linked to Russian drone attacks targeting data centers allegedly used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in Odesa, #Ukraine, corresponding to power outages following Russian missile attacks on port and transport infrastructure 📉
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a major disruption to internet connectivity in Donetsk Oblast, Russian-occupied #Ukraine, corresponding to local reports of a widespread power and telecoms outage 📉
⚠️ Confirmed: Analysis of network data shows a significant decline in internet traffic in #Cuba corresponding to reports of a nation-scale power blackout. The incident is the latest in series of widespread outages triggered by a months-long US oil blockade
ℹ️ Confirmed: Network data show a brief disruption to leading internet provider MEO in #Portugal, corroborating user reports of a short but widespread outage affecting broadband and mobile service; the operator has not issued an explanation 📉
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in parts of #Michigan including Detroit after severe storms bring down utility polls, leaving many residents cut off 📉 #MIwx
⚠️ Confirmed: A power outage has knocked out internet connectivity across much of Donbas, Russian-occupied #Ukraine; the losses in service are attributed to Ukrainian UAV attacks targeting a thermal power plant in Luhansk Oblast 🔌
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a sudden decline in internet connectivity across Russian-controlled Crimea with high impact to Sevastopol and Simferopol corresponding to a power blackout after overnight Ukrainian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure 🔌
⚠️ Update: Live metrics show internet disruptions have expanded across #Hawaii to impact the capital Honolulu as Hurricane Lala skirts the archipelago, corresponding to widespread power outages that have left hundreds of thousands without electricity 🔌 #HIwx
😢86😁14🤬8😱5❤4🔥4🎉2
Showing the 12 most recent of 39 posts we hold for @netblocks. 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.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Republished by 113 registered channels. The 48 listed are the ones that have forwarded the most posts; the rest are counted here but not each listed.
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 20 registered channels — 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.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 25 August 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.
Molotov news @soymolotov · 43,132 Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 65 here — alongside 64 others — read 28 August 2026
InaTEWS_BMKG @InaTEWS_BMKG · 24,139 Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 51 here — alongside 50 others — read 16 September 2026
رادار وضعیت اینترنت @IRRadar · 26,331 Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 45 here — alongside 44 others — read 12 September 2026
NapsternetV @npvchannel · 34,653 Telegram ranks this channel #42 of 43 here — alongside 42 others — read 18 September 2026
ArgVpn ارگ وی پی ان @argvpn · 24,523 Telegram ranks this channel #43 of 51 here — alongside 50 others — read 15 September 2026
Unknown Vpn | فیلترشکن ناشناس @Unknown_Vpn · 84,818 Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 52 here — alongside 51 others — read 17 August 2026
NimWeb | نیم وب @NimWeb · 55,878 Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 57 here — alongside 56 others — read 18 September 2026
Xray UI @XrayUI · 36,776 Telegram ranks this channel #51 of 52 here — alongside 51 others — read 1 September 2026
Anonymous OpIran @anonopiran · 20,657 Telegram ranks this channel #58 of 62 here — alongside 61 others — read 26 September 2026
Github_2dust @github_2dust · 91,529 Telegram ranks this channel #61 of 71 here — alongside 70 others — read 17 August 2026
The Defender Dome @DefenderDome · 21,482 Telegram ranks this channel #76 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 23 September 2026
This channel appears in 11 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cross-platform identity — Wikidata
A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
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 18 September 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“NetBlocks” (@netblocks), 48,809 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/netblocks.
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.