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48,498subscribers

-1,194 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001243651914
TypeChannel
Username@Essay_For_UPSC_Mains
CreatedBetween 1 March 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live19 September 2026
Measurements held34
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 19 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/Essay_For_UPSC_Mains

Topic

Education — 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 9 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.

Growth

48,49849,69249,0957 August 2026 — 49,692 subscribers7 August 2026 — 49,692 subscribers7 August 2026 — 49,673 subscribers8 August 2026 — 49,646 subscribers9 August 2026 — 49,610 subscribers10 August 2026 — 49,567 subscribers11 August 2026 — 49,541 subscribers12 August 2026 — 49,515 subscribers14 August 2026 — 49,479 subscribers15 August 2026 — 49,439 subscribers16 August 2026 — 49,397 subscribers17 August 2026 — 49,356 subscribers18 August 2026 — 49,318 subscribers20 August 2026 — 49,289 subscribers20 August 2026 — 49,269 subscribers22 August 2026 — 49,243 subscribers23 August 2026 — 49,184 subscribers25 August 2026 — 49,146 subscribers26 August 2026 — 49,126 subscribers27 August 2026 — 49,112 subscribers28 August 2026 — 49,088 subscribers29 August 2026 — 49,056 subscribers30 August 2026 — 49,030 subscribers31 August 2026 — 49,005 subscribers1 September 2026 — 48,958 subscribers2 September 2026 — 48,932 subscribers3 September 2026 — 48,903 subscribers5 September 2026 — 48,857 subscribers8 September 2026 — 48,755 subscribers11 September 2026 — 48,672 subscribers13 September 2026 — 48,615 subscribers14 September 2026 — 48,588 subscribers16 September 2026 — 48,558 subscribers19 September 2026 — 48,498 subscribers7 August 202619 September 2026
34 measurements spanning 43 days, net -1,194. 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 48,319–49,871 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 34
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
19 Sept 2026, 05:4048,498-60
16 Sept 2026, 18:1648,558-30
14 Sept 2026, 22:0248,588-27
13 Sept 2026, 07:3748,615-57
11 Sept 2026, 10:3948,672-83
8 Sept 2026, 17:5948,755-102
5 Sept 2026, 12:0048,857-46
3 Sept 2026, 16:1548,903-29
2 Sept 2026, 09:0648,932-26
1 Sept 2026, 08:5248,958-47
31 Aug 2026, 06:2549,005-25
30 Aug 2026, 04:1349,030-26
29 Aug 2026, 02:0549,056-32
28 Aug 2026, 04:2349,088-24
27 Aug 2026, 03:1349,112-14
26 Aug 2026, 04:0649,126-20
25 Aug 2026, 02:1249,146-38
23 Aug 2026, 19:3449,184-59
22 Aug 2026, 06:2549,243-26
20 Aug 2026, 22:0449,269first reading

Engagement

157 posts held, back to 3 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 96 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
0.391%
avg views ÷ 48,498 subscribers
Avg views / post
190
76 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.398%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
76
of 157 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 3 of 76 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 23 September 2026
Posts held157 (3 August 202623 September 2026)
Views total14,409
Reactions total3
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken23 Sept 2026, 18:07 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
2,360
Videos
448
Links
2,880

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 23 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
40m 05s
Average length
1m 09s

Measured directly from 35 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

11 reactions across 10 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 81.8% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
981.8%
😁218.2%

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 157 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 11 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 157 most recent posts we hold, published 3 August 2026 to 23 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

23 Sept 2026, 13:26 UTC50 viewsread 23 September 2026
Forwarded from @UPSC_Prelims_MCQs_Quiz

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23 Sept 2026, 09:11 UTC77 viewsread 23 September 2026
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23 Sept 2026, 08:22 UTC85 viewsread 23 September 2026
Forwarded from @UPSC_Prelims_MCQs_Quiz

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22 Sept 2026, 15:43 UTC147 viewsread 23 September 2026
Forwarded from @UPSC_Prelims_MCQs_QuizPhoto

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22 Sept 2026, 11:28 UTC156 viewsread 23 September 2026
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21 Sept 2026, 12:36 UTC204 viewsread 23 September 2026
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21 Sept 2026, 06:31 UTC199 viewsread 23 September 2026
Forwarded from @UPSC_Mains_Notes_MaterialsVideo

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20 Sept 2026, 13:31 UTC245 viewsread 23 September 2026
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20 Sept 2026, 08:43 UTC227 viewsread 23 September 2026
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19 Sept 2026, 12:58 UTC250 viewsread 23 September 2026
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19 Sept 2026, 10:02 UTC241 viewsread 23 September 2026
Forwarded from @Civil_Services_PrelimsVideo

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Showing the 12 most recent of 157 posts we hold for @Essay_For_UPSC_Mains. 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

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

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.

Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one

Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.

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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.

“UPSC Essay” (@Essay_For_UPSC_Mains), 48,498 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Essay_For_UPSC_Mains.

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.