LinkUp Addis is a digital media company based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Primarily focusing on events and entertainment, LinkUp Addis serves as the leading entertainment media platform for all Ethiopians.
Contact us at @LinkupAddisOfficial
Created
21 June 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset)
Music — 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 10 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 91% 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.
Observations
These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.
Content that also appears on other registered channels
Posts published here appear word for word on 1 other registered channel. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.
Matching posts — open both and compare (2 of the pairs behind the counts below)
Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.
What this cannot establish
MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.
Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. None of the 1 matches recorded here fall after that date, so for this entry we cannot say whether any of them carried a credit. The duplication is measured; the absence of attribution is not.
“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 30 comparable posts for this entry, running 3 August 2026 to 7 August 2026. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.
The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.
Verbatim republication has three causes and the text separates only two: a clone/mirror, unattributed copy-paste, or BOTH channels copying a common third source that neither attributes. The spread filter (content held by at most 8 channels) reduces the third and does not remove it.
'Earliest' means earliest IN THIS CORPUS. A channel ingested one page deep will look younger than a neighbour ingested in full; corpus_coverage above is there to be checked before the direction is believed.
shared_verified_est extrapolates the sampled pass rate over the full narrow match count; sampled/passed are the numbers actually measured.
Absence of a forward header is not proof of intent: Telegram lets a channel disable forward attribution, and a credit written in the body is not parsed as attribution here (mention_edge_either_way above is the closest available signal).
Across the whole group of 2, the earliest publisher we hold is @LinkUpPremium. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.
Recorded under the key clone_mutual, last confirmed 7 August 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.
Also posting the same content
This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
24 measurements spanning 24 days, net +117. 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 25,302–25,455 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 24
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
30 Aug 2026, 16:58
25,437
+3
29 Aug 2026, 16:34
25,434
+14
27 Aug 2026, 21:23
25,420
+5
26 Aug 2026, 23:44
25,415
+4
26 Aug 2026, 01:15
25,411
+3
25 Aug 2026, 02:08
25,408
-7
23 Aug 2026, 17:53
25,415
+14
22 Aug 2026, 06:14
25,401
+6
21 Aug 2026, 00:34
25,395
+3
19 Aug 2026, 21:26
25,392
-7
18 Aug 2026, 19:56
25,399
-3
17 Aug 2026, 19:16
25,402
+8
16 Aug 2026, 15:53
25,394
+5
15 Aug 2026, 01:58
25,389
+8
13 Aug 2026, 18:27
25,381
+11
12 Aug 2026, 18:43
25,370
+7
11 Aug 2026, 18:53
25,363
+17
10 Aug 2026, 15:31
25,346
+4
9 Aug 2026, 12:38
25,342
+2
8 Aug 2026, 13:54
25,340
first reading
Engagement
133 posts held, back to 3 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 51 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
6.87%
avg views ÷ 25,437 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,750
132 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.153%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
133
of 133 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 103 of 132 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 30 August 2026
Posts held
133 (3 August 2026 – 30 August 2026)
Views total
230,743
Reactions total
279
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
30 Aug 2026, 20:54 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
≈11,200
Videos
≈410
Links
≈4,100
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 30 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.
Video runtime
8m 56s
Average length
28s
Measured directly from 19 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
263 reactions across 79 posts, in 10 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 75.7% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
199
75.7%
🔥
35
13.3%
🤡
7
2.66%
🥱
7
2.66%
🖕
4
1.52%
👍
3
1.14%
👏
3
1.14%
🤔
3
1.14%
❤🔥
1
0.38%
🤩
1
0.38%
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 103 of the 133 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 279reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 133 most recent posts we hold, published 3 August 2026 to 30 August 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.
Making it in the Ethiopian music industry is one of the hardest things an artist or a label can attempt. There's no clear playbook, little structure to lean on, and even less room for error. Every win comes with a cost, and every misstep gets magnified in an industry still figuring out its own rules.
Now imagine being the label trying to build something lasting inside all of that chaos. That's the position one of th…
Davino, Sam YF, Orva, Drommer, and Dagi The Human are taking over the decks tomorrow night for an unforgettable session of non-stop Afrohouse energy.
Lock in your pass for just 700 ETB, exclusively on Afromile.
Location: Anki Liquor (In front of Dembel City Center)
Date: Saturday, August 29 | 7 PM till late
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@afromile
Addis JAM is bringing animators, illustrators, writers, comic artists and digital creators into one room for a three-day creative challenge, where ideas, skills and deadlines collide.
Read the full article here: https://www.linkupaddis.com/article/550
@linkupaddis
After Party ET and Project X ET present AFTER PARTY Vol. 3: Team No Sleep this Saturday, 29 August at Up Town Bar (Wello Sefer)! The vibes run all night from 1:00 AM to 6:00 AM.
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Group of 5: 1,900 ETB
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Whether you are a young professional looking for growth and self development, a busy startupper constantly on the look out for better ways to make sense of your surrounding, or a creative soul who enjoys consuming well-crafted stories and visuals or an outgoing soul who enjoys the vibrant event scene, LinkUp Addis has something for everyone. Just fill out this short survey to tell us what your needs are so we can ser…
Dok Top View Restaurant hosts a weekly music event called "Wulo Sundays," featuring sets by DJ Babkim. The event begins at 2:00 PM and offers a music lineup centered around Deep House, Soulful Amapiano, and 3Step genres.
The venue is located at Dok Top View Restaurant in Megenagna, situated adjacent to the Bellevue Hotel & Spa.
@linkupaddis
An upcoming music event titled "The Last Saturday" is scheduled for 5 September at the Velvet Rooftop Lounge in Bole, with doors opening at 11:30 PM. The event will focus on Afrobeat and Amapiano music, featuring performances by a lineup of seven DJs: Pointer, Kidus, FNT, Apollo, DJ Prince, DJ Yab, and DJ Papii.
Ticket options include individual passes for 300 ETB, five-person group packages for 1,200 ETB, and ten-…
An event titled "Creative Minds: Art for Social Change," organized by AWiB Connects, will take place on 3 September from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Hilton Hotel. The gathering aims to explore the role of art in driving social movement and impact.
The event will features speakers Melaku Belay, Founding Director of Fendika Cultural Center, and Yasser Bagersh, Managing Director at Cactus Communications. The discussion …
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@linkupaddis
Why do you think Ethiopian media is losing credibility?
A. Rise of social media30%
B. Lack of neutrality58%
C. Lack of quality content42%
D. Something else (I will comment the answer)5%
The shares total 135%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
Two people can watch the same news, read the same headlines, and walk away remembering two completely different realities. So who decides what becomes the truth?
Read the full article here: https://www.linkupaddis.com/article/549
@linkuppremium
"What Should Remain? A Collective Walk Through Merkato" is scheduled for Saturday, 29 August, in Addis Ababa. The event invites creatives of all disciplines and experience levels including photographers, writers, architects, chefs, and observers to document and reflect on the changing environment of the Merkato market.
Participants will pair up to explore the market's daily routines, sounds, and social dynamics. Th…
Showing the 12 most recent of 133 posts we hold for @LinkUpAddis. 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.
Polls
The 4 polls we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered them when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
Why do you think Ethiopian media is losing credibility?
A. Rise of social media30%
B. Lack of neutrality58%
C. Lack of quality content42%
D. Something else (I will comment the answer)5%
The shares total 135%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
Why do you think many men avoid talking about their mental health?
They fear being seen as weak51%
They’re expected to handle problems alone42%
They don’t believe talking will help34%
They don’t know where to seek help16%
The shares total 143%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
What would be your biggest reason for choosing remote work in Addis?
A, No daily commute34%
B, Lower daily expenses36%
C, More time & less exhaustion60%
D, I prefer working from an office11%
The shares total 141%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
What do you think is the biggest obstacle to making walking and cycling a normal part of daily life in Addis Ababa?
A, Poor or limited infrastructure52%
B, Pedestrians using bike lanes17%
C, Addis Ababa’s hills and geography29%
D, People’s dependence on cars and taxis33%
The shares total 131%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none.The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100.Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 133 most recent posts we hold, published 3 August 2026 to 30 August 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 936 of 1,627,445entries 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.
Mentions
Named by 30 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. The 24 listed below are the most frequent namers; the rest are counted above but not each listed.
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.
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.
Century Cinema 🌎 @century_cinema · 73,793 Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 64 here — alongside 63 others — read 19 August 2026
GAST Cinema 🎥🍿 @gastcinema · 66,507 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 59 here — alongside 58 others — read 21 August 2026
AWAQI | አዋቂ ኢትዮጵያ @awaqiethiopia · 103,901 Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 15 August 2026
Ethiopian Business Daily @Ethiopianbusinessdaily · 41,628 Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 68 here — alongside 67 others — read 29 August 2026
Maroset @Maroset · 61,337 Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 22 August 2026
Crypto Ocean @HDToday_Movies · 44,526 Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 35 here — alongside 34 others — read 28 August 2026
ዓለም ሲኒማ / Alem Cinema @alem_cinema · 40,577 Telegram ranks this channel #39 of 47 here — alongside 46 others — read 30 August 2026
Dereja @Derejaofficial · 44,213 Telegram ranks this channel #45 of 75 here — alongside 74 others — read 28 August 2026
Vent Here @vent_here · 47,622 Telegram ranks this channel #55 of 65 here — alongside 64 others — read 26 August 2026
EBM (Ethioblackmarket.com) @ethioblackmarketcom · 45,832 Telegram ranks this channel #57 of 71 here — alongside 70 others — read 27 August 2026
Afriwork (Freelance Ethiopia) @freelance_ethio · 274,594 Telegram ranks this channel #58 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 10 August 2026
ሰሌዳ | Seleda @seledadotio · 53,022 Telegram ranks this channel #68 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 24 August 2026
Meseret Media @meseretmedia · 72,882 Telegram ranks this channel #73 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 20 August 2026
Janderebaw Media @janderebaw_media · 89,953 Telegram ranks this channel #77 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 17 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 30 August 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“LinkUp Addis” (@LinkUpAddis), 25,437 subscribers as measured 30 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/LinkUpAddis.
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.