{
 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @telegram",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/telegram",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-08-16T01:19:12.240Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 12,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-05T14:53:02.735Z",
   "to": "2026-08-14T16:46:34.370Z"
  },
  "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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   "ts": "2026-08-05T14:53:02.735Z",
   "subscribers": 9902780,
   "source": 0
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-05T15:23:10.047Z",
   "subscribers": 9902511,
   "source": 0
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-06T00:41:12.096Z",
   "subscribers": 9899862,
   "source": 3
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-06T11:10:26.664Z",
   "subscribers": 9896227,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-07T10:13:31.556Z",
   "subscribers": 9887633,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-08T07:46:21.187Z",
   "subscribers": 9879638,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-09T07:53:29.106Z",
   "subscribers": 9871519,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-10T11:13:46.702Z",
   "subscribers": 9861925,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-11T11:04:28.742Z",
   "subscribers": 9851027,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-12T10:05:45.490Z",
   "subscribers": 9840622,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-13T07:47:13.938Z",
   "subscribers": 9837065,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-14T16:46:34.370Z",
   "subscribers": 9828992,
   "source": 4
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