6 Aug 2026, 18:29 UTC2 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News Mosquitoes are spreading dangerous dengue in US states. Here’s where to watch out Both domestic cases and cases in travelers have been rising since the pandemic
Channel
The Independent
@The_Independent_UK
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
482subscribers
-7 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001139641996 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @The_Independent_UK |
| Created | 11 September 2017 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 11 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 11 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/The_Independent_UK |
Topic
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 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 95% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Sept 2026, 17:16 | 482 | -2 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 08:25 | 484 | +1 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 12:43 | 483 | -3 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 13:15 | 486 | +1 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 01:34 | 485 | -3 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 01:24 | 488 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 18:48 | 489 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 04:02 | 489 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 6 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 1 page 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 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
6 Aug 2026, 18:29 UTC2 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News Trump makes his feelings clear about Hegseth after reported feud over US weapons stockpile Heated defense of defense chief comes amid concerns that his war in Iran has emptied the cupboards of precision munitions
6 Aug 2026, 18:29 UTC2 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News Clacton by-election poll tracker: Who is set to win Nigel Farage’s seat as Count Binface plots upset? Two thirds of people in Clacton said they would vote for Nigel Farage if the by-election was held tomorrow
6 Aug 2026, 18:04 UTC2 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - Editorials A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz nears – but Iran now holds all the cards Editorial: We should applaud any breakthrough that lessens the risk of a global recession, but this is no victory for Donald Trump and only highlights the folly of the president’s senseless war
6 Aug 2026, 18:04 UTC2 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News US wants Filipino church leader accused of sex crimes and fraud extradited The legal framework for criminal suspects in the Philippines dictates that trials must conclude and sentences be served before extradition can occur
6 Aug 2026, 17:45 UTC1 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - Culture Minnie Driver involved in ‘really bad car accident’ during Paris trip Driver wore a neck brace as she spoke about the incident on social media
6 Aug 2026, 17:38 UTC1 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News Tehran on brink of deal with Oman to open Hormuz that could finally pave way for Trump peace talks Donald Trump says that talks are progressing well - but a deal on the Strait of Hormuz is at odds with US interests
6 Aug 2026, 17:38 UTC1 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News Trump team to hand out $3B in ‘BIDEN’ grants – for communities that help deport more migrants Department of Justice making fresh funding available to jurisdictions that agree to cooperate with federal immigration forces in their attempts to round-up undocumented ‘aliens’
6 Aug 2026, 17:13 UTC1 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News Families outraged after US Navy refuses to salvage sunken fishing vessel and retrieve the six people who died aboard Though some relatives insist raising the vessel is the only way to find answers, others support leaving the wreckage untouched
6 Aug 2026, 17:13 UTC1 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News Fire at Heathrow airport leads to runway closure and travel delays A picture on social media shows smoke rising from the grass outside a terminal
6 Aug 2026, 17:13 UTC1 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News Kellogg will remove artificial dyes from its cereals by end of this year as it turns to new ingredient for distinctive colors The company said it is also removing BHT, an artificial preservative, from the small number of cereals that still contain it
6 Aug 2026, 17:13 UTC1 viewsread 6 August 2026
The Independent - News ‘What’s your choice between a Republican and a crazy person?’ Insiders dish on midterm prospects after Michigan The contentious primary in Michigan makes Republicans giddy at the prospect of picking up disaffected Haley Stevens supporters not enthused about a progressive like Abdul El-Sayed. But, Eric Garcia writes, they are increasingly worried about Texas
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @The_Independent_UK. 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.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — 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.
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.
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Telegram ranks this channel #66 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 1 September 2026
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@mrahmed02024 · 38,917
Telegram ranks this channel #72 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 31 August 2026
@mrahmed02024 · 38,917
Telegram ranks this channel #72 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 31 August 2026
This channel appears in 2 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 11 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Independent” (@The_Independent_UK), 482 subscribers as measured 11 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/The_Independent_UK.
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.