Prufrock-5 finishing a test-tunnel in Bastrop, Texas. The ~900,000 lb boring machine will re-launch in November. https://t.co/hnYp7uAK3n Source: @boringcompany

Channel
The Boring Company News 🚇
@BoringCoNews
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Stars · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
27,707subscribers
+25,344 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002958657213 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Usernames | @BoringCoNews @dubailoop |
| Description | Updates on tunnels, underground infrastructure, urban transport, Loop system, and innovation. 🚇 Unofficial fan & news channel. Not affiliated with or endorsed by The Boring Company. |
| Created | Between 1 August 2025 and 31 October 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 30 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/BoringCoNews |
Topic
Gaming — 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 13 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 61% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 15:59 | 27,707 | -2 |
| 19 Sept 2026, 01:19 | 27,709 | +10 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 04:57 | 27,699 | no change |
| 16 Sept 2026, 19:58 | 27,699 | +13 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 08:55 | 27,686 | +3 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 22:17 | 27,683 | +5,303 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 15:38 | 22,380 | +3,518 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 05:38 | 18,862 | +16,941 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 20:37 | 1,921 | +1 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 00:16 | 1,920 | -16 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 04:42 | 1,936 | +20 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 09:38 | 1,916 | -13 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 04:13 | 1,929 | -12 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 20:07 | 1,941 | -15 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 00:04 | 1,956 | -25 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 09:24 | 1,981 | -9 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 06:36 | 1,990 | -19 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 17:18 | 2,009 | -28 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 22:04 | 2,037 | -17 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 22:43 | 2,054 | first reading |
Engagement
31 posts held, back to 18 May 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 4 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 0.945%
- avg views ÷ 27,707 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 262
- 16 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 17
- of 31 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. It is computed over the 1 of 16 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 17 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 31 (18 May 2026 – 17 September 2026) |
| Views total | 4,189 |
| Reactions total | 0 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 19 Sept 2026, 19:51 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
- 59
- Videos
- 24
- Links
- 62
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 19 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.
- Video runtime
- 2m 51s
- Average length
- 21s
Measured directly from 8 videos 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.
Telegram Stars
- Stars received
- 50
- across the posts below
- Posts paid on
- 1
- of 30 we hold a reading for · 3%
- Most on one post
- 50
- single highest reading
A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @BoringCoNews. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.
Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.
This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.
Counted over the 31 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 18 May 2026 to 17 September 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.
Recent posts
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Vegas Loop is getting bigger - the station count will double by end of year! Urgently hiring exceptional and enthusiastic Drivers and Ops Managers. Apply here! Driver https://t.co/ZUPXBYTONb Senior Loop Ops Manager boringcompany.com/careers?q=seni… Source: @boringcompany
Thanks to the USArmyReserve soldiers from Branch 1 in Nashville for taking the time to tour the Prufrock-MB1 and Prufrock-MB2 tunneling site. Also loved your appreciation of our “topologically impossible” TBC Mugs! https://t.co/63LlLaboId Source: @boringcompany
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gzC1scQCIQo
Friday night tunneling in Nashville! Prufrock-MB2 is boring through the Music City limestone using 1,000,000+ lb of axial thrust, and 4,000,000+ lb of lateral gripping force. https://t.co/K7lxqUUJcJ Source: @boringcompany
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Showing the 12 most recent of 31 posts we hold for @BoringCoNews. 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.
Mentions
Named by 10 registered channels — 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.
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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.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 2
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 2
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@BoringCoNews named 2 handles that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 9 posts, 8 August 2026 – 8 August 2026
named in 1 post, 8 August 2026 – 8 August 2026
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 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Boring Company News 🚇” (@BoringCoNews), 27,707 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BoringCoNews.
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.