Long-form articles on finding channels, telling a real audience from a bought one, and getting your own channel discovered — written from Telegram's documented limits and this directory's own data.
Telegram's own search only matches names, and subscriber counts are the cheapest thing in the ecosystem to fake. Here is what search can and cannot do, what subscriber and view counts actually mean, and how to read a channel before you join it.
Last updatedAbout 6 min
A channel is one-way broadcast, a group is a conversation, a bot is a program running inside Telegram. Here are the member limits, posting rights and use cases side by side, plus how a basic group actually becomes a supergroup.
Last updatedAbout 5 min
Start with the one-time settings - username, name, public preview - then the ongoing work: forwardable posts, a comment section, directory listings. And why bought subscribers and invite spam only make your numbers worse.
Last updatedAbout 5 min