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Channel
Channel U in Curiosities / The Inf. News
@theinfnewsUIC
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
15subscribers
-1 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001667534616 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @theinfnewsUIC |
| Created | 26 September 2022 — measured — dated from the channel’s first post |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 2 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 2 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/theinfnewsUIC |
Topic
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 1 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 49% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept 2026, 12:16 | 15 | -1 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 21:16 | 16 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:26 | 16 | first reading |
Engagement
6 posts held, back to 26 September 2022 — 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 6 posts for this entry, the most recent from 29 November 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
FUN FACT | News Thanksgiving travel broke records in the aviation sector, with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening more than 2.9 million people on Sunday. The TSA said it was a new agency record for the busiest ever day for air travel. The previous record, set in June this year, was 2.88 million. READ @theinfnews
This Day in History – Nov. 5 On this day in history, some pretty interesting things went down. Let's take a trip down memory lane and see what kind of shenanigans our ancestors were up to. • 2006 – Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity. • 2018 – The U.S., under President Donald Trump, re-imposed all sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under its …
This Day in History – Nov. 4 On this day in history, some pretty interesting things went down. Let's take a trip down memory lane and see what kind of shenanigans our ancestors were up to. • 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo. • 1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA. • 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an …
Channel: @theinfnews
Channel created
Showing the 6 most recent of 6 posts we hold for @theinfnewsUIC. 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.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 1
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 1
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@theinfnewsUIC named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 5 posts, 12 August 2026 – 12 August 2026
Cite this entry
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 8 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Channel U in Curiosities / The Inf. News” (@theinfnewsUIC), 15 subscribers as measured 8 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/theinfnewsUIC.
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.