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Created
14 January 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
Technology — 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 20 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 96% 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
58 measurements spanning 91 days, net -1,146. 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 65,246–66,736 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 58
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
5 Nov 2026, 04:21
65,418
-5
4 Nov 2026, 06:41
65,423
-13
3 Nov 2026, 09:17
65,436
-17
2 Nov 2026, 07:01
65,453
+2
1 Nov 2026, 06:39
65,451
-2
31 Oct 2026, 08:20
65,453
-1
30 Oct 2026, 08:40
65,454
-12
29 Oct 2026, 09:27
65,466
-7
28 Oct 2026, 08:27
65,473
-10
27 Oct 2026, 07:29
65,483
-6
26 Oct 2026, 08:55
65,489
-8
25 Oct 2026, 10:06
65,497
+1
23 Oct 2026, 05:11
65,496
-23
22 Oct 2026, 07:45
65,519
+1
20 Oct 2026, 23:49
65,518
-19
19 Oct 2026, 22:41
65,537
-9
19 Oct 2026, 01:39
65,546
-9
18 Oct 2026, 00:50
65,555
-22
17 Oct 2026, 01:57
65,577
-16
15 Oct 2026, 22:31
65,593
first reading
Engagement
600 posts held, back to 2 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 183 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
2.04%
avg views ÷ 65,418 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,330
187 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.222%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
187
of 600 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 126 of 187 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 5 November 2026
Posts held
600 (2 August 2026 – 5 November 2026)
Views total
249,481
Reactions total
375
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
5 Nov 2026, 09:16 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
≈4,180
Videos
≈750
Links
≈9,740
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 5 November 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.
Reaction mix
1,124 reactions across 358 posts, in 13 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 34.5% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
388
34.5%
👍
249
22.2%
👎
153
13.6%
🔥
106
9.43%
👏
73
6.49%
😁
50
4.45%
🎉
29
2.58%
🥰
18
1.60%
🤬
17
1.51%
🤔
16
1.42%
🤯
13
1.16%
😢
6
0.534%
😱
6
0.534%
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 383 of the 600 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 1,131 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 600 most recent posts we hold, published 2 August 2026 to 5 November 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
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 0 of 187 posts held from the last 30 days (0%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).
✈️ Safran Power Units will supply two turbojet engines for UVAD Technologies' Falcon supersonic UAV, a reusable, containerized, catapult-launched target drone capable of Mach 1.6 and a 110-pound payload, designed for missile defense training and adaptable to ISR and interceptor roles.
🔗https://link.ie.social/heIoDp
🔬 Stanford researchers have developed a fingernail-sized photonic chip that separates mixed light into distinct beams with over 98% fidelity, potentially helping microscopes and telescopes reveal details hidden by conventional imaging.
🔗 https://link.ie.social/5PY4bP
🛠️ OpenAI used GPT-6 and Astra to design a working Codex-connected hardware device in under a week, including its enclosure, circuit board, firmware, and software, while highlighting the models’ growing potential in engineering and product development.
🔗 https://link.ie.social/3GpPHm
🤖 Xiaomi released a video of two full-size humanoid robots sorting center-console side covers at its car factory during an eight-hour task, reportedly detecting and correcting anomalies while coordinating with the production line, though throughput, intervention rates, and battery management remain undisclosed.
🔗https://link.ie.social/PJ1yEG
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⚓ BAE Systems has unveiled the Sea Tridon family of four Bofors 40mm naval gun configurations, including a containerized version and a radar-equipped close-in weapon system, all using programmable 3P ammunition with six fuze modes to counter drones, missiles, and surface threats.
🔗https://link.ie.social/0Jw5bk
🔦 Leonardo DRS has been selected by AeroVironment to provide power management, thermal control, and integration expertise for the Army's first production high-energy laser, the 30-kilowatt LOCUST X3 counter-drone weapon, under a $464.8 million E-HEL contract.
🔗https://link.ie.social/6RfzZd
⚛️ Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have validated "helicon current drive," beaming high-frequency radio waves into hot plasma to generate a stabilizing internal current, a step toward steady-state tokamak operation, though higher-power tests are still needed.
🔗https://link.ie.social/wFVP8H
🔐 OpenAI is partnering with Cathedral Systems to bring outside researchers into its next internal security sprint, while more than quadrupling its Security Bug Bounty maximum to $172,000 and committing $1 billion in subsidized model access for frontline cyber defenders.
🔗https://link.ie.social/YIfunr
💻 OpenAI built Pando, a custom Git backend, in just 10 weeks with Codex to handle a 2,442% surge in monorepo commits, cutting median push latency by nearly 80%, lifting merge reliability to 99.99%, and serving over 57 TB of Git data in a single hour.
🔗https://link.ie.social/FlWqwp
💥 The U.S. military carried out limited strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island near the Strait of Hormuz, described as a defensive response to Iranian surface-to-air missile threats, as Washington keeps diplomacy open while preparing options for wider military action.
🔗https://link.ie.social/JdV5US
👎4❤1
Showing the 12 most recent of 600 posts we hold for @ieofficial. 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.
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 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.
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 21 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
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.
Electrical and electronics engineering @electricalandelectronics09 · 20,510 Telegram ranks this channel #1 of 56 here — alongside 55 others — read 27 September 2026
Science in telegram @science · 123,113 Telegram ranks this channel #1 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 14 August 2026
Electrical Engineering World @Electricalengworld2 · 30,719 Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 6 September 2026
Physics @physics · 32,793 Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 4 September 2026
HCL GUVI @guvigeek · 26,545 Telegram ranks this channel #13 of 49 here — alongside 48 others — read 11 September 2026
Curiosity Tea ☕️ @Curiosity_Tea · 75,482 Telegram ranks this channel #17 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 19 August 2026
Civil Engineering Discoveries @CivilEngDis · 31,384 Telegram ranks this channel #18 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 6 September 2026
Tech Guide @techguide · 40,865 Telegram ranks this channel #18 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 29 August 2026
Technology Boxs @TechnologyBoxs · 24,638 Telegram ranks this channel #22 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 15 September 2026
DataFlair @dataflair · 18,623 Telegram ranks this channel #23 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 4 October 2026
Ask Me @askmenow · 67,862 Telegram ranks this channel #30 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 20 August 2026
MyGov Newsdesk @MyGovCoronaNewsdesk · 367,360 Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 10 August 2026
Microbiology @microbiology_vid · 57,927 Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 52 here — alongside 51 others — read 26 August 2026
Industrial Knowledge @nikunjbhoraniya · 24,646 Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 71 here — alongside 70 others — read 14 September 2026
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod_telegram · 35,573 Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 2 September 2026
NASA @nasapictures · 24,971 Telegram ranks this channel #45 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 14 September 2026
Front End World @front_end_first · 25,684 Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 13 September 2026
Tech, Science & Innovation @Tech_Science_Innovation · 36,899 Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 31 August 2026
Health & Doctor @health · 33,019 Telegram ranks this channel #48 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 4 September 2026
Forensic medicine @forensicmedicine_videos · 29,023 Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 71 here — alongside 70 others — read 9 September 2026
The Daily Stats @dailystats · 30,013 Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 6 September 2026
Engineering Jobs - Civil | Mechanical | Electrical | IT @Engineering_Govt_Private_Jobs · 28,030 Telegram ranks this channel #55 of 59 here — alongside 58 others — read 9 September 2026
The Financial Express @TheFinancialExpressOnline · 44,834 Telegram ranks this channel #56 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 27 August 2026
American English @AmEnglish · 49,896 Telegram ranks this channel #57 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 25 August 2026
This channel appears in 33 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.
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 5 November 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Interesting Engineering” (@ieofficial), 65,418 subscribers as measured 5 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ieofficial.
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.