Channel
@firstpostin
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
7,457subscribers
-121 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001767038528 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @firstpostin |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 15 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 17 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 15 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/firstpostin |
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 12 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% 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.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2026, 03:49 | 7,457 | -3 |
| 5 Oct 2026, 16:19 | 7,460 | -30 |
| 28 Sept 2026, 02:56 | 7,490 | -10 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 22:41 | 7,500 | -23 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 03:36 | 7,523 | -10 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 02:21 | 7,533 | -5 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 22:59 | 7,538 | -3 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 12:27 | 7,541 | -10 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 | 7,551 | -2 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 23:53 | 7,553 | -5 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 20:15 | 7,558 | -9 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 19:23 | 7,567 | -1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 22:24 | 7,568 | -3 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 02:35 | 7,571 | -1 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 01:31 | 7,572 | -6 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 15:25 | 7,578 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 12:16 | 7,578 | first reading |
143 posts held, back to 5 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 16 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 143 posts for this entry, the most recent from 28 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
12 reactions across 9 posts, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 12 | 100.0% |
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 9 of the 143 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 12 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 143 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 28 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.
Devastating flash floods in Nepal have claimed hundreds of lives and left several others missing, prompting desperate searches by families outside overwhelmed hospitals as authorities grapple with the scale of the disaster. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/inside-nepals-crammed-hospitals-where-the-search-for-missing-kin-intensifies-after-deadly-flash-floods-14041505.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
Elephant-train collisions in India are common but not random. Herds continue to use the same route even if infrastructure is introduced. Can railways be made safer for these giants? https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/indian-railways-uses-tech-infrastructure-to-prevent-elephant-train-collisions-ensuring-safer-crossings-14040982.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
Called the “AI kid of India”, 16-year-old Raul John Aju is already running an artificial intelligence company while finishing up Class 12. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/indias-ai-kid-who-is-raul-john-aju-the-16-year-old-who-pays-his-dad-rs-2-lakh-monthly-salary-14041416.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
Pakistan and Kuwait have signed a defence cooperation protocol, extending Islamabad's influence in the Gulf region. India is expected to watch closely. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/pakistan-defence-deal-kuwait-gulf-countries-military-footprint-india-14041406.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
According to Zahed Ur Rahman, an adviser to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, Bangladesh will proceed with the purchase of the Chinese jets this year if adequate budgetary allocations are made. Otherwise, the deal will be deferred until next year. https://www.firstpost.com/world/bangladesh-to-buy-china-j-10-fighters-cites-performance-against-indian-rafale-during-operation-sindoor-14041380.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_m…
Nepal’s flash flood warning system struggled to provide timely alerts, with the first alert arriving 16 minutes after the torrent swept through the area. Could more lives have been saved? https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/nepal-flash-floods-warning-system-lapses-timing-death-toll-14041358.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
The Nepal flash floods raise a bigger question for the Himalayas: are we prepared for floods that can start not with rain, but with what happens on the mountain itself? https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/nepal-flash-floods-vulnerable-himalayas-calamities-analysis-14041271.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have returned to the UK, with the couple said to have found a ‘hidden gem’ in the Cotswolds as their potential new home. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/where-will-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-stay-after-their-return-to-the-uk-14041238.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
Was China late in warning Nepal of the flash floods, which have killed hundreds so far? A claim gaining traction online has been dismissed by Beijing as ‘fake’. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/nepal-flash-floods-china-blame-social-media-analysis-14041240.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
Ahead of the October elections, Benjamin Netanyahu faces more trouble. The Israeli PM's wife has been sued by a former house help. He alleges that Sara Netanyahu verbally assaulted him and demanded that he continue working after undergoing a cardiac procedure. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/israel-pm-wife-sara-netanyahu-ex-employee-lawsuit-verbal-abuse-14041192.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
The world will remember Dolly Parton as many things – a masterful songwriter, a pioneering businesswoman and a mother figure. But many will also remember her as a champion of books. https://www.firstpost.com/lifestyle/dolly-parton-was-the-book-lady-and-that-may-be-her-greatest-legacy-14041154.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
Most of the Indians missing in the Nepal flash floods were pilgrims who travelled for the Kailash Mansarovar yatra. Here's what we know. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/nepal-flash-floods-indians-missing-kailash-mansarovar-yatra-14041125.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
Showing the 12 most recent of 143 posts we hold for @firstpostin. 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.
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.
This channel appears in 28 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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 15 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Firstpost” (@firstpostin), 7,457 subscribers as measured 15 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/firstpostin.
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.