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Channel
@sgmatters
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
982subscribers
-2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001304155941 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @sgmatters |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 22 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 22 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/sgmatters |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026, 18:57 | 982 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 18:15 | 981 | -3 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 00:35 | 984 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:05 | 984 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 31 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 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
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. It is computed over the 19 of 20 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 7 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (31 July 2026 – 7 August 2026) |
| Views total | 2,081 |
| Reactions total | 143 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 8 Aug 2026, 00:35 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.
143 reactions across 19 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 70.6% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 101 | 70.6% | |
| 👍 | 32 | 22.4% | |
| 🥰 | 7 | 4.90% | |
| 👏 | 3 | 2.10% |
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 19 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 143reactions 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 31 July 2026 to 7 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.
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Singaporeans, by and large, understand the difference between economic theory and reality. Here's the photo comment reproduced here for easy reading: The Workers’ Party’s proposals read more like textbook economic theory than a practical strategy for Singapore’s unique economy. What works in large countries with vast domestic markets does not automatically work for a small, open city-state that depends on trade,…
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Our economic policies DO NOT serve MNCs at the expense of SMEs Jamus Lim creates the false impression that Singapore's economic policies primarily serve MNCs at the expense of local firms. The reality is very different. There are very few countries that support local companies as extensively as the PAP Government does. Every year, the Government provides around S$2 billion in direct grants and loans to local SM…
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There is no need to "evolve away" from MNCs and GLCs simply because some have shifted their operations elsewhere. Corporate restructuring is a global reality. Even HOMEGROWN household brands like Gardenia have relocated parts of their production overseas. If each time there is uncertainty, we pivot to somewhere, we will eventually have no place to pivot. The correct response to a volatile global climate is dual-p…
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In his closing speech, Kenneth Tiong thanked many people: I thank Mr. Azhar Othman... I thank Dr. Neo Kok Beng for his observation... I thank the minister Jeffrey Siao for making my point.. I thank honorable member Mark Lee who mentioned.. I thank the honorable member Azhar Othman.. I thank Mr. Saktiandi Supaat.. MOS Dash broadly agreed with.. I thank Assoc Prof Kenneth Goh for championing the very inclusivity... …
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Nothing substantially new emerged from the Workers' Party MPs' speeches. Despite the rhetoric, there were few genuinely fresh ideas. Their motion envisioned an inclusive economy "with opportunities for entrepreneurs to experiment, households and businesses to succeed, workers to thrive, and ideas and innovation to flourish in an economic engine 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚…
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Singapore is so safe that many people rarely think about security. They assume it is the responsibility of the Internal Security Department (ISD) and the Singapore Police Force (SPF). They forget that every member of the public has a role to play in keeping Singapore safe. Senior Minister K. Shanmugam shared that his ministry conducted a series of experiments to gauge public vigilance. During these experiments, …
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In August, we get GSTV- Cash!
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Hey folks, an interesting question from MP Gho Sze Kee. What recourse do student interns have if they are not covered by the Employment Act? This question arose from feedback Sze Kee received while following up on a case. Follow her on her Facebook for more on questions she would be asking in Parliament. Link in comments.
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Tribute from a Singaporean: Thank you Singapore 🇸🇬 as you celebrate your 61st Birthday, you have given me immense privilege and joy whenever I travel not only visa free but also worry free. I know I will be valued at each immigration departure and arrival, I know I will be protected by MFA team when calamity happens. This does not come so easy and also not so easy to maintain all the time. Thank you for your stronge…
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Do good. Save lives.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @sgmatters. 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.
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 22 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Singapore Matters” (@sgmatters), 982 subscribers as measured 22 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/sgmatters.
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.