Channel
@nptidbits
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Polls · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
2,197subscribers
+8 since we began measuring on 21 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001714376903 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @nptidbits |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 21 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 13 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/nptidbits |
Science — 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 16 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 90% 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.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Oct 2026, 16:07 | 2,197 | +8 |
| 13 Oct 2026, 05:50 | 2,189 | +1 |
| 7 Oct 2026, 02:59 | 2,188 | +1 |
| 30 Sept 2026, 12:41 | 2,187 | +2 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 03:20 | 2,185 | -1 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 19:16 | 2,186 | -1 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 16:55 | 2,187 | +2 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 13:35 | 2,185 | -2 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 07:12 | 2,187 | -4 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 15:52 | 2,191 | -2 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 21:23 | 2,193 | +2 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 19:15 | 2,191 | +2 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 22:31 | 2,189 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 13 August 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 18 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 13 August 2026 to 18 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.
#science27 Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) uses a continuously rotating supersonic detonation wave in an annular chamber, enabling pressure-gain combustion and potentially higher fuel efficiency than conventional engines. Fuel and oxidiser are continuously injected. Applications include rockets, spacecraft propulsion, hypersonic missiles and air-breathing propulsion. India’s D-Propulse has demonstrated an indigenous…
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#global27 Izmail and Odesa are different Ukrainian ports in Odesa Oblast. Odesa lies directly on the Black Sea, while Izmail is situated on the Danube River, near Romania. Izmail is strategically important for Ukraine’s alternative export routes, especially grain, while Odesa remains a major Black Sea port. Izmail → Danube; Odesa → Black Sea. Source: The Hindu
#global27 Mocha is a Red Sea port near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic chokepoint connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and an important international shipping route. Source: The Hindu
#global27 The Ulchi Freedom drills are a combined military exercise between South Korea and the US. Named after the Korean general Ulchi Mondik, the exercise is reportedly the world’s largest computerised command and control implementation focused on defending South Korea from a North Korean attack. Since 1976, the drills have been conducted annually between August and September, except for 2018, when the South Korea…
#initiatives27 India holds a prominent place in the global coconut economy. The country ranks first in production and third in cultivation area. The Coconut Development Board (CDB),established on 12 January 1981, functions under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Headquartered in Kochi. Source: PiB
#global27 The Kambari–Fulani clashes occurred in Borgu, within Niger State of north-central Nigeria. The Kambari are an indigenous ethnic group concentrated in Niger State, while the Fulani are widely distributed across West Africa, with many communities historically associated with pastoralism. The Kambari are an indigenous ethnic group concentrated in Niger State, North-Central Nigeria, particularly around Borgu. …
#global27 The Houthis (Ansar Allah) are a Zaydi Shia movement based mainly in northern Yemen, originating from Saada. Jazan Province is a Saudi administrative region on the Red Sea, bordering Yemen; Jazan city is its capital. Jazan Refinery, operated by Saudi Aramco, is an industrial facility there. The area’s proximity to Yemen and Bab-el-Mandeb gives it strategic importance. Source: The Hindu
#science27 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified unusual Little Red Dots (LRDs) in the early Universe, likely representing young, rapidly growing supermassive black holes surrounded by dense gas. One proposed explanation is a “black-hole star” (BH*), where a black hole is embedded within a dense gas cocoon. Their Balmer break (~364.6 nm), redshifted into infrared wavelengths, helps constrain their natu…
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#initiatives27 The MQ-9B SeaGuardian is a U.S.-origin HALE (High-Altitude Long-Endurance) remotely piloted aircraft system developed by General Atomics. Designed for maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), it provides persistent monitoring using radar, EO/IR and AIS sensors, with potential anti-submarine warfare capability. India’s Navy has leased two SeaGuardians for 30 months for maritime-doma…
#initiatives27 The Indian Army and Royal Thai Army contingents comprise 85 personnel each. The Indian Army contingent is represented primarily by troops from 9 Gorkha Rifles, while the Royal Thai Army contingent comprises personnel from the 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division. The exercise will involve company-level joint training focused on operations in jungle and semi-urban terrain. Source: PiB
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Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Photo, posted without a caption
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @nptidbits. 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.
The 2 polls we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered them when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
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Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
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Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is 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 20 most recent posts we hold, published 13 August 2026 to 18 August 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.
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.
This channel appears in 7 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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 16 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“tidbits times” (@nptidbits), 2,197 subscribers as measured 16 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/nptidbits.
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.