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Channel
Network Warrior
@ntwrkchnnl
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Advertising · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
3,693subscribers
+29 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001104517773 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ntwrkchnnl |
| Created | 24 February 2017 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 5 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 16 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 5 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ntwrkchnnl |
Topic
Technology — 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 14 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Oct 2026, 01:22 | 3,693 | +4 |
| 26 Sept 2026, 06:01 | 3,689 | -1 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 13:19 | 3,690 | +4 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 21:38 | 3,686 | +4 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 02:57 | 3,682 | +3 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 14:55 | 3,679 | +2 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 16:17 | 3,677 | -3 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 20:33 | 3,680 | +7 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 21:52 | 3,673 | -1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 13:37 | 3,674 | +1 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 20:53 | 3,673 | +2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 04:54 | 3,671 | +2 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 17:03 | 3,669 | +2 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 23:36 | 3,667 | +3 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 04:33 | 3,664 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 02:23 | 3,664 | first reading |
Engagement
23 posts held, back to 13 July 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 3 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 23 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Advertising
- Ad load
- 21.7%
- 5 of 23 posts carry an ad marker
- Regulatory tokens
- 5
- posts carrying an erid · 5 distinct tokens
- Median views · ads
- 936
- over 5 measured posts
- Median views · rest
- 948
- over 18 measured posts
An ad marker, not a judgement about a post. A post is counted here because it carries one of two explicit markings: an erid token, which Russian law has required on paid placements since 2022 and which is issued against a specific advertising contract, or a #реклама / #ad hashtag in the body, which is the channel declaring it itself. The first is documentary; the second is a self-declaration and is weaker. No classifier reads the text and decides — nothing on this site guesses that a post is an advertisement.
This is a floor, and it can only ever be a floor. A channel that runs paid placements without marking them produces no marker for us to count, and an unmarked ad is indistinguishable from an ordinary post on the public surface. The ad load above therefore means “the share of posts that declared themselves”, never “the share of posts that were paid for”. A low figure is not evidence of a channel that runs few ads.
Both figures are medians, and no ratio between them is published. Each is a view reading that actually occurred on a post, picked by percentile_disc rather than averaged, so one viral post cannot move it and no interpolated value is invented between two readings. They are printed side by side with the count behind each rather than as a ratio: an ad and an ordinary post are not otherwise matched — for topic, for length, for hour of day — so the gap between them is a description of two groups and not the effect of one being an ad.
| erid | Posts | First seen | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2Vtzquu8W5G | 1 | 14 July 2026 | 14 July 2026 |
| 2Vtzqvy5z8A | 1 | 6 August 2026 | 6 August 2026 |
| 2Vtzqw16ogE | 1 | 28 July 2026 | 28 July 2026 |
| 2VtzqwXwRii | 1 | 27 July 2026 | 27 July 2026 |
| 2VtzqxHE7H4 | 1 | 15 July 2026 | 15 July 2026 |
A token repeated across several posts is one advertising contract placed more than once, which is what the identifier is for. The strings are reproduced exactly as they appeared in the post or in its click-through URL and are not validated against any registry — we record the marker a channel published, and whether it resolves to a real contract is a question for the register that issued it.
Measured over the 23 most recent posts we hold, published 13 July 2026 to 7 August 2026. Views are the latest single reading held for each post, and any reading at or above 1,000 is rounded by Telegram to three significant figures.
Recent posts
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Showing the 12 most recent of 23 posts we hold for @ntwrkchnnl. 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 2 registered channels — 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.
@devopslibrary · 19,877
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 94 here — alongside 93 others — read 30 September 2026
@rebrain_devops · 28,853
Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 94 here — alongside 93 others — read 9 September 2026
@CCNA_CCNP_HUAWEI · 19,325
Telegram ranks this channel #61 of 62 here — alongside 61 others — read 2 October 2026
This channel appears in 3 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 5 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Network Warrior” (@ntwrkchnnl), 3,693 subscribers as measured 5 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ntwrkchnnl.
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.