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Francis Gaitho

@francisgaitho

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5,453subscribers

-127 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001605945088
TypeChannel
Username@francisgaitho
CreatedBetween 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live19 September 2026
Measurements held14
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 19 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/francisgaitho

Topic

Politics & activism — 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 13 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 84% 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

5,4535,5805,516.57 August 2026 — 5,580 subscribers8 August 2026 — 5,576 subscribers11 August 2026 — 5,565 subscribers14 August 2026 — 5,562 subscribers17 August 2026 — 5,555 subscribers20 August 2026 — 5,543 subscribers24 August 2026 — 5,529 subscribers27 August 2026 — 5,526 subscribers30 August 2026 — 5,518 subscribers2 September 2026 — 5,509 subscribers6 September 2026 — 5,491 subscribers11 September 2026 — 5,471 subscribers15 September 2026 — 5,463 subscribers19 September 2026 — 5,453 subscribers7 August 202619 September 2026
14 measurements spanning 43 days, net -127. 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 5,434–5,599 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
19 Sept 2026, 11:385,453-10
15 Sept 2026, 09:175,463-8
11 Sept 2026, 13:375,471-20
6 Sept 2026, 16:405,491-18
2 Sept 2026, 15:385,509-9
30 Aug 2026, 12:445,518-8
27 Aug 2026, 11:565,526-3
24 Aug 2026, 09:365,529-14
20 Aug 2026, 23:295,543-12
17 Aug 2026, 15:465,555-7
14 Aug 2026, 07:385,562-3
11 Aug 2026, 07:155,565-11
8 Aug 2026, 07:215,576-4
7 Aug 2026, 16:465,580first reading

Engagement

22 posts held, back to 6 July 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 8 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 22 posts for this entry, the most recent from 11 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
37s
Average length
12s

Measured directly from 3 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

84 reactions across 16 posts, in 13 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 31.0% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
2631.0%
💩1517.9%
👍1416.7%
😁89.52%
🔥78.33%
💯55.95%
👎22.38%
🤔22.38%
😱11.19%
😴11.19%
🤬11.19%
🤮11.19%
🤯11.19%

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 17 of the 22 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 84 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 22 most recent posts we hold, published 6 July 2026 to 11 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.

Recent posts

11 Aug 2026, 16:11 UTC254 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Gachagua’s Parallel Talking Points: Why the Impeached Leader Keeps Dodging the Thande Ruling Rigathi Gachagua consistently avoids the issues that actually constrain power, preferring to launch parallel talking points that generate emotion without confronting the structure of the regime. He and the broader opposition remained silent when William Ruto sought to establish an Ebola quarantine facility and have offered

1

9 Aug 2026, 22:10 UTC482 views0 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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The Daily Nation responded to Justice Mugure Thande’s High Court ruling - which found that the next presidential election was constitutionally due in August 2026 - by ignoring its substance and instead launching a glossy “Decision 2027” campaign that treats the 2027 date as settled. The paper has featured a curated line-up of preferred politicians, issued an unsolicited pledge of fair coverage, and focused on campai

9 Aug 2026, 04:39 UTC561 viewsread 12 August 2026
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Two Aging Regime Mouthpieces Panic as the Constitution Catches Up David Ndii and Ahmednasir Abdullahi spent the weekend frantically dismissing Justice Mugure Thande’s Malindi ruling as either mathematical illiteracy or “one of the stupidest judgments since 1895,” desperate to stop the public from noticing that Article 136(2)(a) places the presidential election in the fifth year - not after it - and that the Constitu

9 Aug 2026, 03:52 UTC536 viewsread 12 August 2026
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MANUFACTURED DEFEATISM: A Morara Kebaso/Okiya Omtatah case study

7 Aug 2026, 19:18 UTC675 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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How Uhuru Kenyatta Violated The Constitution And Illegally Extended Second Term

😁2🤯1

7 Aug 2026, 13:34 UTC667 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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William Ruto Reduced to Ceremonial President After Constitutional Deadline Based on the Malindi High Court ruling of 7 August 2026, William Ruto became a ceremonial president with effect from 10 August 2026 - the day after the constitutionally required election date of the second Tuesday in August 2026. The court declared that the presidential election must be held on the second Tuesday of August in the fifth year

2

3 Aug 2026, 12:17 UTC≈1,080 views5 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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The Shahbal–DP World agreement is scheduled to be signed at State House in Nairobi on 8 September in the presence of President William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta; the two Epstein-adjacent figures who have spent years mortgaging strategic national assets.

2🤔2🤮1

3 Aug 2026, 10:37 UTC988 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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For many Kenyans, the first time they ever heard of Mukurweini MP John Kaguchia was last night, after he staged his own arrest after a Citizen TV interview.

👎2

3 Aug 2026, 05:39 UTC≈1,040 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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The Recycled Mole: How the System Reuses Operatives like Dennis Itumbi to Protect Itself

💯21

3 Aug 2026, 03:32 UTC867 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Can federations that only recently endorsed Gianni Infantino’s illegal and unconstitutional third term now be trusted with the stewardship of a new FIFA?

1

Showing the 12 most recent of 22 posts we hold for @francisgaitho. 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.

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This channel appears in 9 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 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Francis Gaitho” (@francisgaitho), 5,453 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/francisgaitho.

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.