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@xkcdcomics

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373subscribers

+0 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.

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Telegram ID-1001083940185
TypeChannel
Username@xkcdcomics
DescriptionA webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Website: xkcd.com Brought you with love, by @ravaz & @Manuel15
Created23 January 2017measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live13 August 2026
Measurements held2
On Telegramt.me/xkcdcomics

Growth

3736 Aug 2026, 00:32 — 373 subscribers6 Aug 2026, 20:33 — 373 subscribers6 Aug 2026, 00:326 Aug 2026, 20:33
2 measurements taken within a single day. 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 372–374 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
6 Aug 2026, 20:33373no change
6 Aug 2026, 00:32373first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 9 January 2024the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof 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 17 February 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Photos
2,870
Links
1,400

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 6 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.

Reaction mix

38 reactions across 13 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 28.9% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
🤣1128.9%
😁821.1%
👏718.4%
410.5%
👍25.26%
🔥25.26%
🤯25.26%
👌12.63%
😢12.63%

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 13 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 38reactions 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 9 January 2024 to 17 February 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.

Recent posts

17 Feb 2024, 04:50 UTC≈1,190 viewsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Treasure Chests [earlier] "Your vintage-style handmade chest business is struggling. But I have a plan." https://xkcd.com/2895 🔗 @xkcdcomics

14 Feb 2024, 19:50 UTC≈1,320 views1 reactionsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Research Account Focus of your research: EXTREME PETTINESS AND UNWILLINGNESS TO LET ANYTHING GO https://xkcd.com/2894 🔗 @xkcdcomics

🔥1

13 Feb 2024, 00:50 UTC718 views1 reactionsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Sphere Tastiness Baseballs do present a challenge to this theory, but I'm convinced we just haven't found the right seasoning. https://xkcd.com/2893 🔗 @xkcdcomics

😁1

9 Feb 2024, 16:50 UTC628 views2 reactionsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Banana Prices It's a linear extrapolation, Michael. How big could the error be? 10%? https://xkcd.com/2892 🔗 @xkcdcomics

👏2

7 Feb 2024, 19:50 UTC602 views6 reactionsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Log Cabin I'm sure the building inspectors will approve my design once they finally manage to escape. https://xkcd.com/2891 🔗 @xkcdcomics

🤣4👍1👏1

5 Feb 2024, 17:50 UTC491 views1 reactionsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Relationship Advice Good to be a little wary of advice that sounds too much like a self pep talk. https://xkcd.com/2890 🔗 @xkcdcomics

😁1

2 Feb 2024, 18:44 UTC482 views5 reactionsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Greenhouse Effect Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997). https://xkcd.com/2889 🔗 @xkcdcomics

👏31😢1

31 Jan 2024, 15:43 UTC457 views1 reactionsread 6 August 2026
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✒️US Survey Foot Subway refuses to answer my questions about whether it's an International Footlong or a US Survey Footlong. A milligram of sandwich is at stake! https://xkcd.com/2888 🔗 @xkcdcomics

👍1

29 Jan 2024, 19:43 UTC405 viewsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Minnesota In addition to 'squishy', after reviewing my submitted intraplate ground motion data, the National Geodetic Survey has politely asked me to stop using the word 'supple' so often when describing Midwestern states. https://xkcd.com/2887 🔗 @xkcdcomics

27 Jan 2024, 02:43 UTC405 views2 reactionsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Fast Radio Bursts Dr. Petroff has also shown that the Higgs boson signal was actually sparks from someone microwaving grapes, the EHT black hole photo was a frozen bagel someone left in too long, and the LIGO detection was just someone slamming the microwave door too hard. https://xkcd.com/2886 🔗 @xkcdcomics

👌1🤣1

24 Jan 2024, 13:30 UTC359 viewsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Spelling Any time I misspell a word it's just because I have too much integrity to copy answers from the dictionary. https://xkcd.com/2885 🔗 @xkcdcomics

22 Jan 2024, 19:30 UTC≈1,150 viewsread 6 August 2026
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✒️Log Alignment A video can have a log scale that's misaligned with both the time AND space axes. https://xkcd.com/2884 🔗 @xkcdcomics

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @xkcdcomics. 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 — 928,447 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.

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.

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.

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

“xkcd” (@xkcdcomics), 373 subscribers as measured 6 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/xkcdcomics.

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.