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The Tor Project
@torproject
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33,482subscribers
+884 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 | 26 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 37 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 26 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/torproject |
Topic
Technology — 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 9 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Sept 2026, 17:17 | 33,482 | -168 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 14:40 | 33,650 | +46 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 13:56 | 33,604 | +16 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 22:19 | 33,588 | +41 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 06:00 | 33,547 | +94 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 03:18 | 33,453 | +73 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 17:59 | 33,380 | +7 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 08:17 | 33,373 | +22 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 22:09 | 33,351 | +20 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 21:27 | 33,331 | +10 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 23:45 | 33,321 | +18 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 01:16 | 33,303 | +15 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 03:18 | 33,288 | +26 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 04:56 | 33,262 | +30 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 03:25 | 33,232 | +39 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 06:48 | 33,193 | +32 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 04:07 | 33,161 | +76 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 06:22 | 33,085 | +33 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 08:39 | 33,052 | +61 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 16:55 | 32,991 | first reading |
Engagement
21 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 92 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
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- Avg views / post
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- Reaction rate
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- Posts in window
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- of 21 held
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 23 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 21 (13 March 2025 – 23 September 2026) |
| Views total | — |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 29 Sept 2026, 21:02 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.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- 24
- Links
- 49
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 29 September 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
7,179 reactions across 20 posts, in 19 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 3,624 | 50.5% | |
| 👍 | 1,492 | 20.8% | |
| 🔥 | 405 | 5.64% | |
| 🙏 | 284 | 3.96% | |
| 👏 | 265 | 3.69% | |
| ❤🔥 | 205 | 2.86% | |
| 😱 | 200 | 2.79% | |
| 😢 | 159 | 2.21% | |
| 👎 | 116 | 1.62% | |
| 🥰 | 82 | 1.14% | |
| 💯 | 72 | 1.00% | |
| 🤬 | 70 | 0.975% | |
| 🤯 | 60 | 0.836% | |
| 🤣 | 58 | 0.808% | |
| 🤔 | 31 | 0.432% | |
| 😁 | 29 | 0.404% | |
| 🎉 | 24 | 0.334% | |
| 😍 | 2 | 0.028% | |
| 🤩 | 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 21 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 7,179 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 21 most recent posts we hold, published 13 March 2025 to 23 September 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
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Showing the 12 most recent of 21 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.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
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.
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.
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.
| Label | Tor |
|---|---|
| Description | daemon and utilities for an anonymizing network |
| X / Twitter | @torproject |
| Official site | https://www.torproject.org |
| 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.
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 26 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Tor Project” (@torproject), 33,482 subscribers as measured 26 September 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.