Channel
KBs IAS®
@KBsIAS
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
46,982subscribers
-475 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001200780192 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @KBsIAS |
| Created | 27 October 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 12 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 24 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 18 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 24 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/KBsIAS |
Topic
Education — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 88% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026, 06:55 | 46,982 | -43 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 17:37 | 47,025 | -37 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 05:13 | 47,062 | -27 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 05:54 | 47,089 | -23 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 06:08 | 47,112 | -20 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 09:33 | 47,132 | -32 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 11:53 | 47,164 | -31 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 03:53 | 47,195 | -37 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 13:44 | 47,232 | -31 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 04:35 | 47,263 | -17 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 17:08 | 47,280 | no change |
| 12 Aug 2026, 04:48 | 47,280 | -25 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 06:12 | 47,305 | -35 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 04:55 | 47,340 | -21 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 06:11 | 47,361 | -36 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 06:17 | 47,397 | -31 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 09:50 | 47,428 | -29 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 07:31 | 47,457 | first reading |
Engagement
No public post preview. We read this entry on 12 August 2026 and Telegram serves no public post stream for it — the channel has previews switched off, or it is a group or bot with no readable feed. Views, reactions and engagement rates cannot be measured from the outside for an entry in this state, so we publish none. Subscriber counts above are unaffected.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 312,526 of 1,601,189entries 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
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.
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.
@upsc_polity_history_optionals · 60,198
Telegram ranks this channel #39 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 22 August 2026
@targetstudyiq · 110,129
Telegram ranks this channel #39 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 14 August 2026
@only_ias_notes_2026 · 53,630
Telegram ranks this channel #50 of 75 here — alongside 74 others — read 24 August 2026
@UPSC_Prelims_MCQs_Quiz · 168,359
Telegram ranks this channel #55 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 12 August 2026
This channel appears in 4 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 24 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“KBs IAS®” (@KBsIAS), 46,982 subscribers as measured 24 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/KBsIAS.
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.