National news — 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 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 76% 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 the other topics.
Growth
55 measurements spanning 86 days, net -665. 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 24,175–25,040 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 55
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
1 Nov 2026, 10:05
24,275
-20
31 Oct 2026, 10:34
24,295
-11
30 Oct 2026, 08:19
24,306
-3
29 Oct 2026, 07:35
24,309
-3
28 Oct 2026, 03:47
24,312
-2
27 Oct 2026, 00:27
24,314
-5
26 Oct 2026, 01:46
24,319
+7
25 Oct 2026, 03:28
24,312
-7
24 Oct 2026, 02:27
24,319
-11
22 Oct 2026, 23:59
24,330
-6
22 Oct 2026, 01:31
24,336
-11
20 Oct 2026, 23:40
24,347
-9
19 Oct 2026, 22:00
24,356
-15
18 Oct 2026, 21:15
24,371
-16
17 Oct 2026, 19:50
24,387
+2
16 Oct 2026, 19:19
24,385
-18
15 Oct 2026, 18:57
24,403
-6
14 Oct 2026, 16:51
24,409
-19
13 Oct 2026, 07:50
24,428
-50
9 Oct 2026, 01:39
24,478
first reading
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 10 March 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 111 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 26 April 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
6,491 reactions across 20 posts, in 7 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 46.3% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
👍
3,008
46.3%
❤
1,642
25.3%
👎
688
10.6%
😢
354
5.45%
🤣
331
5.10%
🤔
246
3.79%
👏
222
3.42%
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 20 of the 20 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 6,491 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 10 March 2023 to 26 April 2023, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @SCMP_News. 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.
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 1 November 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“South China Morning Post” (@SCMP_News), 24,275 subscribers as measured 1 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/SCMP_News.
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.
