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@whyliterature

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9,097subscribers

+182 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001237219527
TypeChannel
Username@whyliterature
DescriptionI am still so naive; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe? The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
Created11 April 2018measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live16 August 2026
Measurements held6
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 16 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/whyliterature

Growth

8,9159,0979,0067 August 2026 — 8,915 subscribers7 August 2026 — 8,915 subscribers7 August 2026 — 8,927 subscribers10 August 2026 — 9,023 subscribers13 August 2026 — 9,075 subscribers16 August 2026 — 9,097 subscribers7 August 202616 August 2026
6 measurements spanning 10 days, net +182. 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 8,888–9,124 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
16 Aug 2026, 15:389,097+22
13 Aug 2026, 09:579,075+52
10 Aug 2026, 12:469,023+96
7 Aug 2026, 15:528,927+12
7 Aug 2026, 01:008,915no change
7 Aug 2026, 00:488,915first reading

Engagement

94 posts held, back to 1 August 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 16 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
19.5%
avg views ÷ 9,097 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,770
93 posts measured
Reaction rate
this channel exposes no reaction counts
Posts in window
94
of 94 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.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 17 August 2026
Posts held94 (1 August 202617 August 2026)
Views total164,976
Reactions total
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken18 Aug 2026, 03:10 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
1,710
Videos
62
Links
197

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 18 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.

Video runtime
4s
Average length
4s

Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no mark.

Recent posts

16 Aug 2026, 17:05 UTC956 viewsread 18 August 2026

And at the same time I am obligated to speak. I shall never be silent. Never. I shall not be alone, in the beginning. I am of course alone. Alone. That is soon said. Things have to be soon said. And how can one be sure, in such darkness? The unnamable, Samuel Beckett

15 Aug 2026, 03:02 UTC817 viewsread 15 August 2026

صبحم رو با دیووید لینچ شروع می‌کنم 🫶🏻

14 Aug 2026, 15:15 UTC≈1,900 viewsread 18 August 2026
Photo

تو ماشین کتاب خوندن خیلی کیف میده. خیلی زیاد. :)))

14 Aug 2026, 00:05 UTC≈1,980 viewsread 18 August 2026

Probably because I got my nose stuck in this book rn, If Muriel’s mom were still alive, she’d probably be like, “What’s all this funny business?” :)

13 Aug 2026, 23:45 UTC≈2,010 viewsread 18 August 2026

Oh, I wish I could get Buddy on that crazy phone for a few minutes. Same here Bessie, same here

13 Aug 2026, 23:35 UTC≈1,950 viewsread 18 August 2026

اگر دیگه هیچ‌چی برای خوندن از خانواده گلس نداشته باشم چه کار کنم؟

13 Aug 2026, 23:32 UTC≈1,970 viewsread 18 August 2026

بپر بیرون از کتابم. باید بغلت کنم. بپر بیرون.

Showing the 12 most recent of 94 posts we hold for @whyliterature. 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 — 17,881 of 1,481,306entries 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

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.

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

“Literature” (@whyliterature), 9,097 subscribers as measured 16 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/whyliterature.

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.