🇰🇪FlexPay founders, the company behind Kenya’s “save now, buy later” fintech FlexPay, were arrested by DCI detectives over the alleged theft of Sh31.2 million belonging to a major retail chain. The DCI says the suspects allegedly collected payments from customers on behalf of the retailer but failed to remit the money

Channel
Breaking News
@Breaking_News_Update
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
15,087subscribers
-262 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001490867068 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Breaking_News_Update |
| Description | We're World News: 🔹Europe 🔹Africa 🔹Middle East 🔹Asia 🔹America #CryptoAnalysts #WorldNews #Geopoilitics #TechNews #InternationalAffairs #BusinessDaily Advert DM @JamesJoes @Robinke https://telega.io/c/Breaking_News_Update |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 30 September 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 3 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 26 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 3 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Breaking_News_Update |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sept 2026, 09:24 | 15,087 | -17 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 23:45 | 15,104 | -6 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 20:24 | 15,110 | -17 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 16:46 | 15,127 | -6 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 15:24 | 15,133 | -4 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 18:06 | 15,137 | -18 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 15:54 | 15,155 | -6 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 13:33 | 15,161 | -11 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 12:26 | 15,172 | -6 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 14:34 | 15,178 | -28 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 19:57 | 15,206 | -23 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 09:48 | 15,229 | -12 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 08:34 | 15,241 | -7 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 08:22 | 15,248 | -12 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 09:43 | 15,260 | -4 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 12:56 | 15,264 | -2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 06:25 | 15,266 | -8 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 15:08 | 15,274 | -8 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 02:26 | 15,282 | +1 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 05:12 | 15,281 | first reading |
Engagement
168 posts held, back to 2 August 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 63 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 4.03%
- avg views ÷ 15,087 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 607
- 153 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.281%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 156
- of 168 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 45 of 153 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 3 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 168 (2 August 2026 – 3 September 2026) |
| Views total | 92,936 |
| Reactions total | 74 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 3 Sept 2026, 10:58 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
- ≈16,300
- Videos
- ≈3,960
- Links
- ≈5,370
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 3 September 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
- 7m 15s
- Average length
- 40s
Measured directly from 11 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.
Reaction mix
79 reactions across 42 posts, in 16 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 54.4% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 43 | 54.4% | |
| 👍 | 9 | 11.4% | |
| 🤡 | 6 | 7.59% | |
| 💔 | 4 | 5.06% | |
| 🔥 | 4 | 5.06% | |
| 💩 | 3 | 3.80% | |
| ⚡ | 1 | 1.27% | |
| ❤🔥 | 1 | 1.27% | |
| 👌 | 1 | 1.27% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 1.27% | |
| 😈 | 1 | 1.27% | |
| 😢 | 1 | 1.27% | |
| 😱 | 1 | 1.27% | |
| 🙈 | 1 | 1.27% | |
| 🤨 | 1 | 1.27% | |
| 🤯 | 1 | 1.27% |
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 47 of the 168 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 79 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 168 most recent posts we hold, published 2 August 2026 to 3 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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Photo, posted without a caption
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Showing the 12 most recent of 168 posts we hold for @Breaking_News_Update. 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 17 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
- 1
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 1
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 0
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@Breaking_News_Update named 1 handle 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.
Evidenced gone
We ourselves saw each of these resolve to a real page at some point before it went vacant — a genuine, evidenced change, not an inference from absence.
named in 2 posts, 26 August 2026 – 27 August 2026 · confirmed gone 2 September 2026 (two independent sightings — see how we confirm a dead handle)evidenced
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@The_Nairobian · 79,415
Telegram ranks this channel #19 of 47 here — alongside 46 others — read 18 August 2026
@ayanventures · 53,352
Telegram ranks this channel #22 of 30 here — alongside 29 others — read 22 August 2026
@mwangimuthiora · 45,254
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 51 here — alongside 50 others — read 27 August 2026
@NairobiGossipClubQ · 56,245
Telegram ranks this channel #29 of 43 here — alongside 42 others — read 23 August 2026
@Nyakundi · 104,951
Telegram ranks this channel #30 of 66 here — alongside 65 others — read 15 August 2026
@kenyan_news_panel · 79,467
Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 19 August 2026
@nairobianofficial · 133,686
Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 15 August 2026
@kenyanwallstreet · 35,141
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 2 September 2026
@nairobigossipupdate · 50,450
Telegram ranks this channel #36 of 47 here — alongside 46 others — read 25 August 2026
@bnnkenya · 106,563
Telegram ranks this channel #37 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 15 August 2026
@Nairobitrendsnews · 125,440
Telegram ranks this channel #37 of 49 here — alongside 48 others — read 15 August 2026
@NairobiGossipClubK · 358,084
Telegram ranks this channel #44 of 49 here — alongside 48 others — read 15 August 2026
@Success_Skills_keys · 44,189
Telegram ranks this channel #62 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 28 August 2026
@sky_sports_world · 76,961
Telegram ranks this channel #68 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 19 August 2026
This channel appears in 14 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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 3 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Breaking News” (@Breaking_News_Update), 15,087 subscribers as measured 3 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Breaking_News_Update.
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.