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 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @practicalinformation",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/practicalinformation",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-09T22:35:27.442Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 11,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-06T04:05:35.266Z",
   "to": "2026-09-04T05:57:21.425Z"
  },
  "columns": {
   "ts": "when this reading was taken, UTC",
   "subscribers": "the count read (or, for source 3, carried over) — see source below",
   "source": {
    "0": "sweep.py — t.me/<name> profile page",
    "1": "promote.py — Bot API getChat",
    "2": "resolve.py — MTProto",
    "3": "spromote.py — t.me/s/<name> post preview (figure carried over from an earlier profile read, not the preview’s own rounded header)",
    "4": "remeasure.py — t.me/<name> profile page, re-read on a schedule"
   }
  },
  "note": "Snapshots are written only when a reading changes: a gap in ts means \"no change observed between readings\", never \"not measured\" and never \"interpolated\". Readings from different sources are separate lineages that do not confirm one another — subtracting across them can attribute a change to a period nothing was actually read in. Full method: https://tgregister.com/methodology#measuring"
 },
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   "ts": "2026-08-06T04:05:35.266Z",
   "subscribers": 8264,
   "source": 3
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-06T11:40:54.155Z",
   "subscribers": 8261,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-09T02:01:30.125Z",
   "subscribers": 8290,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-11T23:53:33.477Z",
   "subscribers": 8287,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-15T19:45:09.255Z",
   "subscribers": 8275,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-18T17:33:06.350Z",
   "subscribers": 8271,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-22T11:09:12.917Z",
   "subscribers": 8267,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-25T18:28:37.567Z",
   "subscribers": 8264,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-28T15:42:52.919Z",
   "subscribers": 8263,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-01T00:36:53.578Z",
   "subscribers": 8243,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-04T05:57:21.425Z",
   "subscribers": 8237,
   "source": 4
  }
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