measurement

The largest one per cent of the index is 51 channels, and they hold 38.5% of every subscription we measure. The median channel has 15,982.

Ranking 5,177 channels by subscribers and by inbound recommendations produces two almost disjoint lists.

Telegram publishes today's subscriber count and never yesterday's. Growth is not a field you can read: it exists only where somebody stored the earlier reading, which is what this index does every week.