Elgeyo Marakwet: Elderly man stuns residents after capturing live snake with bare hands https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/family/646050-kerio-valley-crowd-watches-veteran-snake-handler-son-capture-spitting-cobra-bare-handed/

Channel
TUKO.co.ke News
@tuko_news
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Handles named that no longer answer · Telegram's recommendations · Cross-platform identity · Cite this entry
24,115subscribers
-972 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001273894445 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @tuko_news |
| Description | TUKO.co.ke is delivering fastest and dependable news to millions of Kenyans in and outside our beautiful country. A warm and sincere welcome to all! |
| Created | Between 1 April 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 63 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 8 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/tuko_news |
Topic
Memes & entertainment — 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 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 91% 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
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Nov 2026, 12:20 | 24,115 | -7 |
| 7 Nov 2026, 09:19 | 24,122 | -10 |
| 6 Nov 2026, 08:37 | 24,132 | -9 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 07:11 | 24,141 | -5 |
| 4 Nov 2026, 06:29 | 24,146 | -3 |
| 3 Nov 2026, 06:38 | 24,149 | -18 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 06:20 | 24,167 | -13 |
| 1 Nov 2026, 04:49 | 24,180 | -10 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 05:27 | 24,190 | -27 |
| 30 Oct 2026, 02:30 | 24,217 | -22 |
| 29 Oct 2026, 00:30 | 24,239 | -19 |
| 28 Oct 2026, 00:19 | 24,258 | -22 |
| 27 Oct 2026, 00:51 | 24,280 | +1 |
| 25 Oct 2026, 22:08 | 24,279 | -6 |
| 24 Oct 2026, 20:08 | 24,285 | -14 |
| 23 Oct 2026, 20:17 | 24,299 | -16 |
| 22 Oct 2026, 22:04 | 24,315 | -12 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 20:46 | 24,327 | -10 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 15:45 | 24,337 | -18 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 18:20 | 24,355 | first reading |
Engagement
1,737 posts held, back to 6 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 123 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 0.615%
- avg views ÷ 24,115 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 148
- 612 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.483%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 614
- of 1,737 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 34 of 612 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 8 November 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 1,737 (6 August 2026 – 8 November 2026) |
| Views total | 90,803 |
| Reactions total | 25 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 8 Nov 2026, 17:05 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
- ≈3,400
- Videos
- ≈338
- Links
- ≈41,700
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 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
41 reactions across 39 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 92.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 38 | 92.7% | |
| 👍 | 2 | 4.88% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 2.44% |
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 53 of the 1,000 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 41 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 1,000 most recent posts we hold (the sample is capped at 1,000), published 2 September 2026 to 8 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 614 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).
Kenyan woman praises husband for surviving cancer in surprise announcement on plane https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/family/646053-kenyan-woman-praises-husband-surviving-cancer-surprise-announcement-plane/
Kitavi Mutua: Bizarre scene as Kitui journalist’s funeral conducted with coffin inside hearse https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/family/646041-kitavi-mutua-bizarre-scenes-kitui-journalists-funeral-conducted-body-hearse/
I had my best friend's baby as surrogate—Then rejected him after seeing his eyes https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/confessions/646043-i-friends-baby-a-surrogate-rejected-eyes/
Kisumu graduate visits late father's grave to celebrate milestone he never lived to witness https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/family/646036-kisumu-graduate-visits-late-fathers-grave-celebrate-milestone-lived-witness/
Kenyan family appeals for help to repatriate PhD scholar who died in US for burial https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/family/646034-kenyan-family-appeals-repatriate-phd-scholar-died-us/
Video shows Charlene Yunge raising concern with dad over strict wedding security https://www.tuko.co.ke/entertainment/celebrities/646033-video-shows-charlene-yunge-raising-concern-dad-strict-wedding-security/ Charlene Ruto complained about heavy security at her Tanzania wedding after guards blocked friends and photographers, drawing playful response from her father.
Nakuru man emotional after spotting police Land Cruiser that rescued him from angry mob https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/family/646031-nakuru-man-emotional-spotting-police-land-cruiser-rescued-angry-mob/
My first love promised me 60 sunflowers — 45 years later, they finally arrived https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/confessions/646028-my-love-promised-60-sunflowers-45-years-finally-arrived/
My son brought his girlfriend home — Her secret warning left me terrified https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/confessions/646027-my-son-brought-girlfriend-home-secret-warning-left-terrified/
A man yelled at a mom changing her newborn in laundromat — A stranger stepped in https://www.tuko.co.ke/people/confessions/646018-a-man-yelled-a-mom-changing-newborn-laundromat-elderly-stranger-stepped-in/
Mbavu Destroyer woos US girlfriend after getting cosy with Truphena Muthoni https://www.tuko.co.ke/entertainment/celebrities/646003-mbavu-destroyer-woos-girlfriend-cosy-truphena-muthoni/ Mbavu Destroyer responds after Keliah shares footage of him with Truphena Muthoni, sparking an emotional exchange about trust, timing and their relationship.
Showing the 12 most recent of 1,737 posts we hold for @tuko_news. 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.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 2
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 2
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@tuko_news named 2 handles that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 10 posts, 27 August 2026 – 1 November 2026
named in 1 post, 1 November 2026 – 1 November 2026
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.
@NTVNewsupdate · 8,168#1
@kenyagossipsclubb1 · 29,938#2
@OMGVoiceKE · 22,595#3
@mpashokenya · 7,516#4
@nairobigossipupdate · 50,580 (as read 15 September 2026)#5
@OfficialKSRM · 8,235#6
@whownsKenya1 · 4,104#7
@NairobiGossipClubK · 367,097#8
@biznake · 6,674#9
@francisgaitho · 5,313#10
@nairobianofficial · 128,966#11
@Nyakundi · 102,734#12
@thestarkenya · 12,603#13
@citizentvke · 19,846#14
@kenyainsight · 16,345#15
@allafrica · 4,146#16
@kenyanwallstreet · 35,232#17
@Breaking_News_Update · 14,483#18
@KTNbreakingnews · 5,265#19
@udakuzonee · 12,703#20
@kenyan_news_panel · 80,955#21
@StandardKenya · 12,775#22
@bnnkenya · 103,309#23
@Ekoroi · 1,008#24
@businessdailyAF · 12,018#25
@KateRoza · 2,618#26
@hapakenya · 1,301#27
@PremiumKE · 1,775#28
@theeastafrican · 3,722#29
@MoneyAcademyKE · 15,825#30
@CARRIBEANINFOFIXED · 28,254 (as read 15 September 2026)#31
@toboasiri · 18,710#32
@eaglenewsfeed · 946 (as read 15 September 2026)#33
@africanewsofficial · 3,890#34
@mwangimuthiora · 45,863#35
@kenyan_memess · 111,626#36
@DailyNationNews · 1,725#37
@eliking_m · 28,018#38
@k24tvdigital · 2,823#39
@DuncanNdungu · 25,812#40
@wallstreetjournalchannel · 5,880#41
@presstv · 92,671#42
@CNN_English_News · 10,257#43
@txtunnelvpn · 28,585#44
@aljazeera_world · 30,432 (as read 15 September 2026)#45
@cgtn_europe · 11,330#46
@France24_en · 27,886#47
@techweez · 5,045#48
@anadoluagency_en · 11,194#49
@mustafaalbayed · 1,771#50
@financialtimeschannel · 16,151#51
@associated_press_news · 7,226#52
@cgtn · 4,289 (as read 15 September 2026)#53
@globaldissident · 8,275#54
@moecrypto · 904#55
@AfricaLib · 2,621#56
@RPRNATechnology · 1,246#57
@techcrunchcom · 5,101#58
@TechRadarcom · 1,538#59
@trtworld · 20,020#60
@AussieCossack · 70,708#61
@aljazeeraenglish · 16,746 (as read 15 September 2026)#62
@Irna_en · 25,850#63
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 15 September 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.
@kenyagossipsclubb1 · 29,938
Telegram ranks this channel #5 of 36 here — alongside 35 others — read 10 September 2026
@OMGVoiceKE · 22,595
Telegram ranks this channel #7 of 40 here — alongside 39 others — read 20 September 2026
@citizentvke · 19,846
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 28 September 2026
@kenyan_memess · 111,626
Telegram ranks this channel #16 of 64 here — alongside 63 others — read 15 August 2026
@lyf4g · 20,991
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 22 September 2026
@Nairobitrendsnews · 9
Telegram ranks this channel #25 of 49 here — alongside 48 others — read 15 August 2026
@mwangimuthiora · 45,863
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 51 here — alongside 50 others — read 27 August 2026
@NairobiGossipClubQ · 53,042
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 43 here — alongside 42 others — read 23 August 2026
@The_Nairobian · 76,828
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 47 here — alongside 46 others — read 18 August 2026
@kenyanwallstreet · 35,232
Telegram ranks this channel #37 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 2 September 2026
@kenyan_memesss · 48,750
Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 45 here — alongside 44 others — read 25 August 2026
@nairobianofficial · 128,966
Telegram ranks this channel #43 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 15 August 2026
@kenyan_news_panel · 80,955
Telegram ranks this channel #47 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 19 August 2026
This channel appears in 14 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 13 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cross-platform identity — Wikidata
A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
| Label | Tuko.co.ke |
|---|---|
| Description | Kenya’s online news website, founded in 2015 by Legit |
| X / Twitter | @Tuko_co_ke |
| YouTube | UCl6ICaB9meBcSMQ5Zmr446g |
| Official site | https://kiswahili.tuko.co.ke/ |
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 8 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“TUKO.co.ke News” (@tuko_news), 24,115 subscribers as measured 8 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/tuko_news.
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.