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 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @thebugs",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/thebugs",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-09T07:35:50.288Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 12,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-06T05:25:13.667Z",
   "to": "2026-09-08T09:16:56.790Z"
  },
  "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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   "subscribers": 4355,
   "source": 0
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-06T05:30:59.409Z",
   "subscribers": 4355,
   "source": 3
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-09T09:12:18.673Z",
   "subscribers": 4346,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-12T10:15:36.370Z",
   "subscribers": 4343,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-16T03:17:01.425Z",
   "subscribers": 4336,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-18T17:35:38.749Z",
   "subscribers": 4330,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-21T17:05:35.668Z",
   "subscribers": 4326,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-25T04:37:09.808Z",
   "subscribers": 4323,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-28T05:33:44.871Z",
   "subscribers": 4309,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-31T02:37:52.104Z",
   "subscribers": 4304,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-03T09:46:20.440Z",
   "subscribers": 4298,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-08T09:16:56.790Z",
   "subscribers": 4294,
   "source": 4
  }
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