Channel
@thewire_in
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
4,436subscribers
-22 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001377338855 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thewire_in |
| Created | 29 August 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 25 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 25 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thewire_in |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug 2026, 14:24 | 4,436 | +3 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 19:28 | 4,433 | -4 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 00:22 | 4,437 | -10 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 17:52 | 4,447 | -7 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 13:12 | 4,454 | -5 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 17:42 | 4,459 | +1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 16:00 | 4,458 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 15:57 | 4,458 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 23 May 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 6 pagesof 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 23 May 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
181 reactions across 16 posts, in 10 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 57.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 104 | 57.5% | |
| ❤ | 30 | 16.6% | |
| 💩 | 14 | 7.73% | |
| 😁 | 10 | 5.52% | |
| 💔 | 8 | 4.42% | |
| 👎 | 4 | 2.21% | |
| 👏 | 4 | 2.21% | |
| 🤣 | 4 | 2.21% | |
| 🤡 | 2 | 1.10% | |
| 🔥 | 1 | 0.552% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 17 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 181reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 23 May 2023 to 23 May 2023, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Karan Thapar spoke to former High Commissioner to Islamabad T.C.A. Raghavan to discuss how concerned India should be about Pakistan's constitutional, political and economic crises. Read the full text. https://t.co/MSSGAyIxdy
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One of the four cheetah cubs born in Kuno died on Tuesday, May 23, the Madhya Pradesh forest department said. The cub was weak, and the runt of the litter of four that cheetah Jwala gave birth to in the last week of March this year https://t.co/LAadOzHHMF
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There are increasing instances of the misuse of the law, especially against persons who are vocal critics of the government and its policies, and those who raise issues of the poor and oppressed sections of society, the letter said. https://t.co/QbFpjW2ZuO
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'These faded clothes whimper their secrets to each other.'' Read Revika Sangamita's poem for @livewire https://t.co/N6NyIuAfsc
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Mamata Banerjee said that the forthcoming vote in Rajya Sabha to convert the ordinance on control of services in Delhi into law will be a "semi-final before the 2024 elections". https://t.co/Bsp0GihcKM
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar squandered no time in meeting Kejriwal, along with his deputy and RJD leader Tejaswhi Yadav, JD(U) national president Lallan Singh and RJD spokesman Manoj Jha, to amplify his support for Kejriwal. | @NalinAnant https://t.co/78WPekXLsG
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Why are criminals called ‘Goonda', 'Mafia' or 'Don’? How and when did these terms enter our common lingo and legal discourse? In what context did they first begin to be used and what connotation do they bear now? | Krishan Pratap Singh https://t.co/p5vvoy4JEQ
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Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to hold talks with his Australian counterpart on Wednesday. That same evening, the Parliament House in Canberra is going to be the venue for the screening. https://t.co/l1Z7KTt8hL
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A part of Alan Morinis's 1979 PhD thesis was edited to claim that a Hindu temple was destroyed to build an Islamic shrine at Tribeni in Hooghly district of West Bengal. There is no conclusive evidence for this claim, he tells @thewire_in | @AjoyAshirwad https://t.co/ITLulCQ975
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That the gaudy pink unwanted child, born out of the whimsical demonetisation of high-value currencies in November 2016, would have to die early was always expected, writes @sritara. https://t.co/BjgnBNNdFd
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Perhaps PM Modi can win the global sweepstakes in dress-jockeying with his unabashed and nonchalant sartorial swings which he has proclaimed to be his own insignia and brand, writes Vrinda Gopinath. https://t.co/fMXG7dx2HU
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#Listen | In a podcast discussion with @bombaywallah, Congress leader @salman7khurshid said the party's performance was due to both the impact of Bharat Jodo Yatra and the local unit of the party. https://t.co/g4DW4NjpU3
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @thewire_in. 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.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
@thewire_in named 5 handles 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.
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
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 25 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Wire” (@thewire_in), 4,436 subscribers as measured 25 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thewire_in.
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.