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@smart_german
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2,544subscribers
+1 since we began measuring on 15 September 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1002153782221 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @smart_german |
| Created | Between 1 June 2024 and 30 September 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 15 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 15 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 15 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/smart_german |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026, 20:16 | 2,544 | +1 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 01:22 | 2,543 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 21 April 2025 — 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 4 May 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
85 reactions across 19 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 67.1% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 57 | 67.1% | |
| ❤ | 26 | 30.6% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 1.18% | |
| 🔥 | 1 | 1.18% |
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 20 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 85 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 21 April 2025 to 4 May 2025, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Es ist fünf vor zwölf #flashphrase When it's "five minutes to twelve," time is running out and urgent action is needed before it's too late. This precise temporal metaphor evokes the dramatic countdown to midnight – the final moments before a deadline. The expression gained special prominence during the Cold War era and environmental movement, often used to describe the threat of nuclear war or climate disaster. Th…
❤11👍8
Auf dem falschen Dampfer sein #flashphrase Being "on the wrong steamboat" means being completely mistaken or having the wrong idea about something. The expression emerged during the 19th century steamboat era, when boarding the wrong vessel would lead travelers far from their intended destination. Unlike many idioms tied to obsolete technology, this phrase has remained vibrant in modern German. It's particularly co…
❤4👏1
Auf großem Fuß leben #flashphrase Living "on a big foot" describes someone who lives extravagantly or beyond their means. This curious expression dates back to the 15th century when nobility and wealthy merchants wore impractically long, pointed shoes as status symbols – the longer the shoe, the higher one's status. Some shoes were so extreme they needed to be tied to the knee! The phrase survived long after the fa…
👍3
Feierabend Culture #culture The German concept of "Feierabend" reveals a fundamental aspect of the country's work-life philosophy that goes far beyond a simple "end of the workday." This untranslatable term encompasses not just the moment when work ends, but the distinct transition into personal time that is treated as a separate and valued part of daily life. The word combines "Feier" (celebration) with "Abend" (ev…
👍7
Befinden #vocabulary #word The German verb "befinden" extends far beyond its common appearance in the polite question "Wie befinden Sie sich?" (How are you?). This versatile word functions in various contexts, from casual conversations to specialized fields such as medicine, law, and philosophy, each time carrying subtly different meanings that all connect to the idea of state, condition, or judgment. In its reflex…
❤1👍1
Die Ohren spitzen #flashphrase "Pointing one's ears" means listening attentively or perking up when hearing something interesting. The expression draws a parallel to animals (particularly dogs, horses, and rabbits) who physically move their ears toward sounds of interest. Dating back to hunting terminology, the phrase appeared in German literature as early as the 18th century. Unlike many animal-related idioms that…
👍2
The Overlooked Imperative Forms #grammar #imperative German imperative forms extend well beyond the familiar du-commands that language learners typically encounter first. While "Komm her!" (Come here!) or "Mach das!" (Do that!) might be the most recognizable imperatives, German offers a full range of command forms that vary according to whom you're addressing and the level of formality required. The du-imperative, …
❤2👍2
Die Hütte brennt #flashphrase When "the hut is burning," it means there's an emergency or crisis situation requiring immediate attention. This alarming expression likely originated in rural villages where fire was an ever-present danger that required community response. The phrase gained widespread usage during industrialization when factory fires were common workplace hazards. In modern German, it's frequently use…
👍4❤1
Scheitern #vocabulary #word The verb "scheitern" deals with failure, but in a way that differs subtly from how English approaches the concept. While English uses "to fail" broadly, German has developed a more nuanced vocabulary for different types of failure, with "scheitern" occupying a specific place in this spectrum. At its core, "scheitern" means "to fail" in the sense of an endeavor, project, or attempt not su…
❤2👍2
Mit einem blauen Auge davonkommen #flashphrase Escaping a difficult situation with just "a blue eye" means getting off lightly or with minimal damage. The physical imagery is clear – suffering only a black eye when much worse injuries were possible. Its origins lie in brawling and physical confrontations, but it quickly expanded metaphorically to any situation where one narrowly avoids serious consequences. Boxing'…
👍5
Jemandem einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen #flashphrase Drawing "a line through someone's bill" means foiling their plans or destroying their calculations. This wonderfully precise expression comes from accounting practices, where canceled items were marked with a line through them. First recorded in commercial contexts in the 17th century, it reflected the growing importance of written financial records. The …
👍2
Unter den Teppich kehren #flashphrase "Sweeping under the carpet" works the same way as in English - hiding problems rather than addressing them. Unlike many idioms which have evolved differently across languages, this expression maintains nearly identical meaning in German, English, and many other European languages. It likely emerged in the 19th century with the widespread use of household carpets among the middl…
👍3
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @smart_german. 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 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.
Which building in Germany is known for having the longest construction period in the country's history?
Shares as published, totalling 101%. 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 21 April 2025 to 4 May 2025. 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 3 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 15 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Smart German Magazine 🇩🇪” (@smart_german), 2,544 subscribers as measured 15 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/smart_german.
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.