Channel

The Tor Project

@torproject

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32,767subscribers

+169 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID	-1001409382078
Type	Channel
Username	@torproject
Description	This is the official Tor Project Telegram channel. Message @GetBridgesBot for bridges, @GetTor_Bot to download Tor Browser, and @TorProjectSupportBot for help.
Created	17 March 2022 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded	6 August 2026
Last confirmed live	13 August 2026
Measurements held	10
Confirmed unchanged	1 time, most recently 13 August 2026
On Telegram	t.me/torproject

Growth

10 measurements spanning 7 days, net +169. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 32,573–32,792 and does not start at zero.

Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)	Subscribers	Change
13 Aug 2026, 04:25	32,767	+10
12 Aug 2026, 01:02	32,757	+45
11 Aug 2026, 03:12	32,712	+24
10 Aug 2026, 05:17	32,688	+15
9 Aug 2026, 05:52	32,673	+32
8 Aug 2026, 08:14	32,641	+24
7 Aug 2026, 08:12	32,617	+14
6 Aug 2026, 07:20	32,603	+5
6 Aug 2026, 01:51	32,598	no change
5 Aug 2026, 23:42	32,598	first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 13 March 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 18 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 4 June 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Photos: 24
Links: 49

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 13 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.

Reaction mix

7,013 reactions across 20 posts, in 19 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.5% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction	Count	Share
❤	3,543	50.5%
👍	1,455	20.7%
🔥	393	5.60%
🙏	282	4.02%
👏	255	3.64%
❤‍🔥	201	2.87%
😱	199	2.84%
😢	152	2.17%
👎	116	1.65%
🥰	79	1.13%
💯	71	1.01%
🤬	70	0.998%
🤯	59	0.841%
🤣	58	0.827%
🤔	29	0.414%
😁	26	0.371%
🎉	22	0.314%
😍	2	0.029%
🤩	1	0.014%

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 20 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 7,013reactions 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 13 March 2025 to 4 June 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

4 Jun 2026, 07:01 UTC≈19,600 views238 reactionsread 13 August 2026

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Tor is strongest when the broader internet freedom ecosystem is healthy. In partnership with Funding the Commons we are excited to launch a web3-native crowdfunding initiative benefitting 10 internet freedom projects An initial $115,000 USD matching pool supported by Cake Wallet, Zcash Community Grants, Logos, and Octant -- with additional ecosystem participation expected throughout the campaign -- will amplify don…

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28 Apr 2026, 14:26 UTC≈30,400 views448 reactionsread 13 August 2026

Как обойти блокировку Telegram в России с помощью tor на ПК? Вы знаете, что можете использовать Tor в качестве прокси, чтобы обойти цензуру? Если вы из России, мы опубликовали пошаговые инструкции, как перенаправить ваш трафик из Telegram через сеть Tor. Все, что вам нужно: 1. Браузер Tor для ПК - подключенный к сети Tor 2. Добавить настройки прокси в Telegram Наши инструкции: https://telegra.ph/Vy-znali-…

👍225❤137🔥49👏10👎7🥰7🙏5🤔4

28 Apr 2026, 14:26 UTC≈24,200 views147 reactionsread 13 August 2026

How to bypass Russian block on Telegram with Tor Did you know you can use Tor as a proxy to bypass censorship? If you are in Russia, we've published step-by-step instructions on how to route your Telegram traffic through the Tor network. All you will need: 1. Tor Browser for Desktop - connected to the Tor network 2. Add the proxy settings in Telegram See our instructions: https://telegra.ph/Did-you-know-you-can-u…

❤83👍33🥰12👏9🔥4😢3🤔2❤‍🔥1

30 Mar 2026, 16:39 UTC≈32,700 views409 reactionsread 13 August 2026

В последние недели доступ к Telegram в России был нестабильным. Напоминаем всем, что у Проекта Tor есть несколько каналов поддержки пользователей на разных платформах: 📨 Email: frontdesk@torproject.org 💻 Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#tor:matrix.org Signal: https://signal.me/#p/+17787431312 (torsupport.89) WhatsApp: https://wa.me/447421000612 Tor Forum: https://forum.torproject.org Telegram: Команда поддержки https://…

❤266🔥52👍46🙏17🥰9❤‍🔥5👎5👏5

30 Mar 2026, 16:37 UTC≈27,500 views224 reactionsread 13 August 2026

In recent weeks, access to Telegram in Russia has been unstable. We want to remind everyone that the Tor Project has multiple user support channels across different platforms: 📨 Email: frontdesk@torproject.org. 💻 Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#tor:matrix.org Signal: https://signal.me/#p/+17787431312 (torsupport.89) WhatsApp: https://wa.me/447421000612 Tor Forum: https://forum.torproject.org Telegram: Tor Support team …

❤124👍33❤‍🔥26🔥9💯7👏5🙏5👎4

29 Jan 2026, 21:47 UTC≈67,100 views610 reactionsread 13 August 2026

For people in Iran 🇮🇷 To use Snowflake, you'll need a Tor-powered app like Tor Browser, Orbot, or Tor VPN. Tor Browser can be downloaded via our official Telegram bot: @gettor_bot. Snowflake with AMP cache rendezvous seems more reliable in Iran. To use AMP Cache method, launch Tor Browser, copy and paste: about:preferences#connection, scroll down and click on "Replace bridges..." or "Add a Bridge Manually..." and ad…

❤422👍54👏50🙏20❤‍🔥19😢14👎11🔥10

29 Jan 2026, 21:44 UTC≈51,500 views332 reactionsread 13 August 2026

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🇮🇷 Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ❄️ Donate your bandwidth and help Tor users circumvent censorship by deploying your own Snowflake. For users outside Iran: install Snowflake browser addon The easiest way to spin up a Snowflake is to install the browser addon, enable it, and see the icon turn green when a blocked user conn…

❤199🙏41👍35👏15🔥12❤‍🔥11😢10👎5

1 Dec 2025, 20:26 UTC≈54,500 views314 reactionsread 13 August 2026

Redirect Cyber Monday purchases away from Big Tech We're not Big Tech pushing disposable gadgets and doorbuster deals. The Tor Project is a nonprofit fighting for a free internet– free from censorship and surveillance. This Cyber Monday, consider redirecting the money you might spend on Big Tech platforms and donate. 🧅 https://donate.torproject.org/

❤185👍50🔥36👏16😢9❤‍🔥6🎉3💯3

30 Oct 2025, 10:22 UTC≈62,000 views278 reactionsread 13 August 2026

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Finding help with Tor just got easier! 📢 We've unified all user documentation under one roof: https://support.torproject.org/ This project was a true community effort. Huge shoutout to Sutty for building the component library that makes this (and future Tor sites) possible. 🙌 The portal is live in 10 languages, but we need your help! Join translators worldwide in making Tor documentation accessible to everyone.

❤160👏39👍32🔥19🙏12👎5🎉4🥰3

16 Oct 2025, 19:18 UTC≈60,000 views297 reactionsread 13 August 2026

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Tor Project's 2025 Fundraising Campaign is Live! 🎉 Although the modern internet has been corrupted by rampant privacy violations and pervasive government spying, we have the power to FREE THE INTERNET from the chains of censorship and surveillance. ⛓️‍💥 As a nonprofit, we rely on donations to power our tools -- the Tor network, Tor Browser, Tails OS, and the Tor ecosystem. These tools are trusted by millions and …

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28 Aug 2025, 17:49 UTC≈64,000 views378 reactionsread 13 August 2026

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Corruption and Control: How Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business In Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated regimes in the world, internet censorship has evolved beyond surveillance and control. In an Orwellian twist, the people blocking access to the internet are the same ones secretly selling it back, at a price most Turkmens can't afford. https://blog.torproject.org/Corruption-Control-Turkmenis…

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18 Aug 2025, 18:50 UTC≈61,900 views270 reactionsread 13 August 2026

Helpdesk: Tor user support now in Farsi! Farsi-speaking users can now get help with downloading Tor Browser, bypassing censorship, and solving connectivity issues. 📅 Mon - Thu, 19:30 - 01:30 Iran time 💬 Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Email (text only) https://telegra.ph/Tor-user-support-now-available-in-Farsi-04-24

❤158👍47👏24🔥14🎉7🤣6👎4🥰4

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @torproject. 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.

Citation-graph rank

Citation-graph rank — 767,814 of 1,169,250entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.

Forward network

Republished by

Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.

Az Güvən Net
@azguvennet · 351 post Código Yoditar
@codigoyoditar · 901 post

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Named by

Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.

Franco Security
@FrancoSecurity · 241 post

Names

Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.

Tor Bridges
@GetBridgesBot · 82,7184 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.

Cross-platform identity — Wikidata

2 Wikidata items name this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.

Q202044 on Wikidata, read 9 August 2026
Label	Tor
Description	daemon and utilities for an anonymizing network
X / Twitter	@torproject
Official site	https://www.torproject.org

Q20857740 on Wikidata, read 9 August 2026
Label	The Tor Project, Inc
Description	free and open-source software project for enabling anonymous communication
X / Twitter	@torproject
Official site	https://www.torproject.org

Referenced elsewhere

This handle named by sources this register does not control and did not measure — each shown exactly as found, attributed by name, dated to when it was read.

Hacker News

This handle was named 6 times in a Hacker News comment or story, via the public Algolia search API. HN comment and story text has no confirmed reuse licence, so nothing quoted from either is reproduced here — only that a mention exists, when, and by whom, with a link to read it at the source.

Comment by Trouble_007
17 December 2022 Comment by Trouble_007
8 December 2022 Comment by Trouble_007
1 December 2022 Comment by Trouble_007
24 November 2022 Comment by Trouble_007
24 November 2022 Comment by Trouble_007
23 November 2022

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 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“The Tor Project” (@torproject), 32,767 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/torproject.

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.