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@weyra_writers_collective
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253subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 8 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001550861857 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @weyra_writers_collective |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/weyra_writers_collective |
Literature — 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 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% 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.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Sept 2026, 06:17 | 253 | +1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 05:33 | 252 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 22:04 | 251 | -2 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 09:20 | 253 | no change |
| 8 Aug 2026, 00:14 | 253 | first reading |
19 posts held, back to 8 February 2024 — 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 19 posts for this entry, the most recent from 1 November 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
21 reactions across 10 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 76.2% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 16 | 76.2% | |
| 👍 | 4 | 19.0% | |
| 🔥 | 1 | 4.76% |
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 11 of the 19 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 21 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 19 most recent posts we hold, published 8 February 2024 to 1 November 2024, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
We're reading a classic for November! 📚 This month, we’ll be diving into Things Fall Apart by Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic Chinua Achebe, widely recognized for his influential contributions to contemporary African storytelling. Read along with us, and join in for an in-person discussion at the end of the month. P.S. If you’ve already read Things Fall Apart and want to explore something new, some of our member…
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This month, we’re diving into The Land of Shadows, a captivating collection of short stories by Abdourahman A. Waberi, hailing from Djibouti. Join us for our monthly discussion on October 26th. Happy reading! 📖❤️ #ReadAfrican #AfricanBookClub #TheLandOfShadows #AbdourahmanWaberi #Djibouti #Bookstagram #Literature #Weyrabookclub #ReadingCommunity
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September's selection for our book club is this award winning coming-of-age novel by Zambian author Ellen Banda-Aaku. Join us for the discussion at the end of the month. You can join our online chat groups at the links below. Local Chat Group for Addis Ababa: https://t.me/+hzNspJgvS8s2MTBk Continental Chat Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FIwYcbBamag6X2mgCcylH0 #africanbookclub #readafrican #weyrabookclub
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📚 Book Fest Extravaganza To be or not to be? That is the question... or is it? 🤔 Maybe the real question is, "What is the answer to the universe and everything in it?" (Hint: Answer correctly and win a prize at the door! 🎁👀) Join us as ALX Ethiopia teams up with Rotaract Club of Finot to celebrate the love of books! Whether you're a hunchback, sporting crooked glasses, or just someone with a delicate touch for tur…
We're reading Ivorian poet Tanella Boni's collection The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn this month. Hope to see you on the 31st for our first ever read of a poetry collection!
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We're excited to read famed Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni's mythological novel Anubis this July. See you there!
This June, we'll be reading Senegalese author and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene's satirical novel Xala. Join us!
A Cure for Wellness: How the west has taken over spirituality and turned it into modern day colonization By Bethel Biru Read full story at the link below https://weyra.org/2024/05/21/a-cure-for-wellness-how-the-west-has-taken-over-spirituality-and-turned-it-into-modern-day-colonization/
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Our May book club selection takes us to Algeria with Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation, translated by John Cullen. Join us May 25th as we discuss this profound meditation on Arab identity and the effects of colonialism.
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This month’s book club selection is By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Laurel, from Equatorial Guinea. This Translation by Jethro Soutar is the promising magical tale we’ll be discussing at the end of the month.
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Lessons of the Narrow Aisle By Mahlet Berhanu Read full poem at the link below https://weyra.org/2024/03/28/lessons-of-the-narrow-aisle/
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Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @weyra_writers_collective. 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.
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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 4 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Weyra” (@weyra_writers_collective), 253 subscribers as measured 4 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/weyra_writers_collective.
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.