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 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @thecryptobyte",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/thecryptobyte",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-16T13:13:40.780Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 18,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-23T01:46:13.515Z",
   "to": "2026-09-16T11:58:10.856Z"
  },
  "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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   "source": 3
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-24T14:38:14.219Z",
   "subscribers": 16361,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-25T13:23:50.766Z",
   "subscribers": 16338,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-26T10:12:08.499Z",
   "subscribers": 16313,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-27T08:37:56.426Z",
   "subscribers": 16299,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-28T07:34:17.131Z",
   "subscribers": 16287,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-29T06:07:55.595Z",
   "subscribers": 16273,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-30T03:15:10.614Z",
   "subscribers": 16250,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-31T02:38:27.196Z",
   "subscribers": 16232,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-01T05:17:03.990Z",
   "subscribers": 16200,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-02T03:36:35.064Z",
   "subscribers": 16181,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-03T10:11:36.519Z",
   "subscribers": 16150,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-05T07:21:58.996Z",
   "subscribers": 16125,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-08T14:56:55.558Z",
   "subscribers": 16074,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-11T09:38:40.080Z",
   "subscribers": 16017,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-13T05:59:17.871Z",
   "subscribers": 15983,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-14T19:56:35.524Z",
   "subscribers": 15965,
   "source": 4
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