Channel
@thestarkenya
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12,803subscribers
-52 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001146474941 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thestarkenya |
| Description | Join Kenya’s most reliable Telegram news channel and stay updated on stories making headlines, breaking news from Kenya and around the globe |
| Created | Between 1 May 2017 and 31 July 2020— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 14 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 14 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thestarkenya |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026, 18:57 | 12,803 | -2 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 06:57 | 12,805 | -2 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 07:31 | 12,807 | -4 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 07:17 | 12,811 | -13 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 07:13 | 12,824 | -10 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 05:15 | 12,834 | -10 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 07:40 | 12,844 | -10 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 08:01 | 12,854 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 03:46 | 12,855 | first reading |
186 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 19 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 15 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 186 (5 August 2026 – 15 August 2026) |
| Views total | 40,951 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 15 Aug 2026, 12:22 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 15 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Salt is widely recognised for its ability to add flavour to food and serve as a preservative, but excessive consumption can trigger noticeable physical reactions across the body. #starinfographics
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has proposed talks with North Korea aimed at formally ending the Korean War, which technically remains unresolved. Lee called for a “multi-layered security system” to prevent military tensions and clashes along the countries’ de facto border, known as the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ). #starkenyanews
https://tinyurl.com/ytw8tnyr
https://tinyurl.com/3fbw8cce
Mould is a type of fungus that grows in damp or moist places and can become a problem in homes. #starinfographics
https://tinyurl.com/muhf9kdf
https://tinyurl.com/yn9m5k5h
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki joins elders drawn from the Njuri Ncheke Supreme Council, Nyaangi Ndiriri, Kiama Kia Muembu, Ngome and Mwea Councils of Elders for an extraordinary and solemn assembly at Nembure Grounds in Manyatta Constituency, Embu County on August 15, 2026. 📸DPCS #starkenyanews
https://tinyurl.com/5n72wxup
https://tinyurl.com/ywyan5d7
Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday has been found dead in south London, days after resigning amid plagiarism allegations and questions over his academic achievements. Emergency services said a man was found “unresponsive” at a Battersea address on Friday afternoon. #starkenyanews
https://tinyurl.com/yfx69jv6
Showing the 12 most recent of 186 posts we hold for @thestarkenya. 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 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 4 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 14 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Star Kenya” (@thestarkenya), 12,803 subscribers as measured 14 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thestarkenya.
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.