Telegram Fake Activity: Millions of Subscribers, But Where Are the People?

КЛЁ 13 ноября, 2026 6 минут чтения

Telegram Fake Activity. Millions of subscribers, hundreds of thousands of views, thousands of crypto projects, and constant claims of record-breaking engagement. But how many real users are actually behind those numbers?

I’ve noticed something curious over the years. Whenever I join another crypto chat to have a conversation, I keep running into the same familiar faces. I move to another project, then a third, then a tenth, and it’s practically the same people everywhere. New participants appear so rarely that you actually start noticing them. Meanwhile, the counters show thousands, tens of thousands, and sometimes millions of subscribers.

From my own observations, the active core of many crypto projects rarely exceeds 200–300 people. That made me curious whether my impressions matched the statistics. So I started digging through independent research, examining major crypto communities, and conducting a small investigation of my own.

Collony: Who Actually Participates in Crypto Chats?

Collony analyzed 100 of the largest crypto Telegram chats using TGStat data. Together, these communities had 14.5 million memberships.

The findings:

In 44 chats, fewer than 100 accounts posted messages during an entire month.
In 24 chats, not a single regular participant posted a message.
Those silent communities accounted for 4.9 million memberships.
The median chat had 103,822 members, but just 211 accounts posted at least one message during the month.

Here are some specific examples.

Community	Members	Accounts posting per month
OKX English	369,727	3,700
Binance English	340,181	3,100
Bybit English	222,315	3,900
MEXC English	249,586	2,800
Bitget English	222,409	1,800
OKX Chinese	254,583	7,000
MEMES Community	1,138,352	0
CRYPTO EDUCATION	713,269	0
boop community	487,756	0

Even in the international communities of major crypto exchanges, with hundreds of thousands of members, only a few thousand accounts post messages in a month.

My Own Review of Crypto Telegram Channels

I also examined subscriber counts, views, and reactions on posts published by active crypto channels.

Blum

Metric	Count
Subscribers	12.7 million
Average post views	~71,000
Average reactions	~250

Walt, formerly Wallet

Metric	Count
Subscribers	3.28 million
Average post views	~85,000
Average reactions	~1,490

The averages are based on small samples of published posts.

Pavel Durov’s Official Channel

Metric	Count
Subscribers	10.04 million
Views on selected posts	700,000–1.1 million
Reactions	14,000–34,000

Telegram’s view-counting system is also worth examining. Views of forwarded messages contribute to the original post’s counter. Reopening a post after some time can also increase the view count.

Other Active TON Channels

ChatCrawler publishes audience statistics for channels covering TON and cryptocurrencies.

Channel	Subscribers	Average views
Investment kingyru	1.6 million	2,937
tonbase	1.4 million	3,269
Architecton AI	1.8 million	691
TON Elixir	200,000	1,883
Crypto Medwed	134,000	1,529

All the listed channels had published content within the preceding 30 days at the time of the review.

Tgstatvip: How Many Views Do Large Channels Actually Get?

Analytics service Tgstatvip examined 26,874 active Telegram channels, comparing subscriber counts with average post views.

Subscribers	Channels analyzed	Average views below 1.5% of subscribers
Over 1 million	379	136
500,000–1 million	436	116
100,000–500,000	4,860	760
50,000–100,000	5,855	652

Researchers also identified channels with more than five million subscribers where the average post received fewer than 15,000 views.

TG Market: Anomalies Across Hundreds of Thousands of Channels

TG Market examined approximately 840,000 public Telegram channels.

Among active channels, researchers identified:

15,000 channels where post views represented less than 1% of subscribers.
2,000 channels where different posts received almost identical view counts.
2,500 channels showing sudden spikes in subscriber numbers.

Such anomalies appeared particularly frequently among channels focused on finance, trading, gambling, and online earnings.

GRAM: Two Million Wallets, But How Many Are Actually Used?

Chainora published the findings of a third-party on-chain analysis of two million activated GRAM wallets.

According to the reported analysis:

Metric	Count
Wallets examined	2,000,000
Empty or nearly empty wallets	79%
Classified as linked to Chinese spam	14%
Wallets passing the activity filter	37,000

The researchers counted wallets holding more than 1 GRAM and making outgoing transactions, excluding addresses classified as bots, spam operations, or farms.

Of the two million activated wallets, 37,000 met the researchers’ criteria.

The report also stated that five wallets controlled half of the 1.58 million GRAM examined in the analysis.

These figures come from Chainora’s summary of a third-party investigation. The original calculations, complete methodology, and full list of wallet addresses have not been independently verified.

What About X (Twitter)?

Analytics service Pinlyx examined 158,475 X accounts and more than 7.6 million posts. For a detailed reach comparison, the researchers used a sample of 1,005 accounts.

Here are illustrative view counts for a typical post, depending on the account’s audience size:

Followers	Illustrative views per post
20,000	~3,820
60,000	~3,300
200,000	~7,600
600,000	~20,200
2 million	~48,800
5 million	~34,500

These examples are calculated from Pinlyx’s median reach figures for the corresponding account-size categories.

Tweetloft conducted a separate study of more than 800 popular posts from crypto and Web3 projects.

Type of crypto post	Average views
Development updates	14,086
Launch announcements	16,499
Crypto project stories	14,037
Educational content	12,909
Airdrops and giveaways	12,438
Token promotions	11,122

Discord: How Many Members Are Actually Online?

Flexe.io Research examined 88 cryptocurrency Discord communities.

Across 82 accessible servers, there were 6.08 million memberships, with approximately 217,000 accounts online at the time of the review.

Another analytics platform, GuildRegister, tracks 150 major cryptocurrency and NFT Discord communities.

Community	Members	Online
Pharos	895,325	5,555
Taiko	828,133	5,220
Portal to Bitcoin	501,616	3,032
Venom Foundation	402,395	2,742
Mantle	400,883	4,456
OpenSea	379,176	12,409
Magic Eden	176,608	5,474
Hyperliquid	93,249	10,595

Online counts reflect a snapshot taken during the review.

Separately, Disradar analyzed 25 cryptocurrency Discord communities and found a median of 522 accounts online per server.

From KLOMPUS

That’s the data I managed to gather across Telegram, X, and Discord. Independent research, statistics from major crypto projects, and some observations of my own.

Now take a look for yourselves. Where is the crypto audience actually active and engaged, and where do impressive subscriber counters tell a very different story?

I’d be interested to hear your own observations, especially from those who, like me, regularly participate in different crypto communities.

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