Telegram narrative intelligence

How narratives form, mutate and travel across language communities on Telegram

Built on a decade of Telegram infrastructure. NarraPrism is the analytical layer above an indexing system that has continuously processed public Telegram channels since 2015.

18M+
Channels and groups indexed
140+
Languages indexed
154
Countries covered
2015
Data coverage since
[ 01 / READ ]

Positions, not only keywords

Topics are measured across the full archive. Beneath them, the positions a text promotes are coded against a fixed codebook: "the talks are a path to peace" and "the talks are a surrender" are two separate objects. Position coding is delivered on commissioned work and reported as an estimate, with its validation sample.

[ 02 / TRACK ]

Cross-language reading

The same event or claim read side by side across language communities: where the framing converges, where it splits, and which layer moved first.

[ 03 / MAP ]

Channels & audiences as separate layers

What channels publish and how their audiences actually react are tracked separately. The gap between them is often the finding.

[ 04 / RESOLVE ]

Coordination and amplification networks

Networks are detected from publishing behaviour, not assigned by hand: who reposts whom, and which channels publish the same text within hours of each other. Shows who is amplifying what, empirically.

[ REPORTS ]

Published research

Short public cuts from the research corpus, each showing a different region and language community. Every one of them is a surface reading produced without asking the data a hard question. The depth below each is commissioned.

Southeast Asia · Chinese-language layer
The online economy, read from the layer almost nobody reads
Twelve months of one language layer. A community watch turning into a marketplace, settlement language surfacing in the shop window, and a recruitment pipeline that holds its share as the layer widens.
Middle East · six language layers
One escalation, six languages, six different events
Eight weeks read side by side. The layer closest to the event peaked first and fell silent first, and in one language the number of publishers itself dropped by a quarter.
Iran · sample deliverable
Who speaks about Iran, and who gets heard
Politically active channels sorted into six camps, with reach, audience response and the side each takes in the regional confrontation. The format a commissioned study is delivered in.
Central Asia & South Caucasus · eight languages
The region is watched for two things. It publishes about neither.
Twelve months of the region’s own publishing. Sanctions and labour migration together account for under two percent of it. About a sixth is the price of living.

All of these cuts are surface readings; the depth below each is commissioned.

[ WHAT AN ANSWER LOOKS LIKE ]

A public page states a direction. A commissioned cut states an answer. One subject goes in - an actor, a brand, a claim, a corridor, a location, a name. This is the shape of what comes back, with identifiers withheld here because this is a public page.

SUBJECT      [supplied by client]
FIRST SEEN   2026-02-24 03:10 · 2 channels · language of origin
CROSSED INTO +4h   +9h   +31h   +3d   (4 further languages)
FRAME SHIFT  local incident -> attributed action, between hour 6 and hour 14
ORIGINATORS  [withheld] · 3 accounts · 1,140 subsequent carriers
COUNTERED BY 22 channels in the same language, from hour 19
PEAK         412 channels · 8,900 posts · week 3
RECORD       61 of the earliest posts subsequently edited or removed
Channel, account and person identifiers are delivered under agreement, never on a public page.

First results in days rather than months, across any of the languages in the index, answered backwards across years of history as readily as forwards. Send one subject and we will come back with a short read on what the environment holds on it.

Lineage

A decade of Telegram infrastructure

NarraPrism is the third layer in a continuous research stack. The directory and search products generate the indexing pipeline and operational dataset that the analytical layer is built on.

[ DIRECTORY ]

Telegram Groups Directory

Structured public directory organized by topic, country and language. 132,000+ communities published across 271 categories, 72 languages, 154 countries. The original indexing system, continuously maintained.

[ SEARCH ]

Teleteg search engine

Dedicated search across tens of millions of public Telegram communities, with structured filters for activity, language, country, member count. The retrieval layer for researchers, journalists, OSINT practitioners and NGOs.

[ ANALYTICS ]

NarraPrism

Analytical layer for content intelligence and large-scale narrative analysis. Built on the corpus, repost graph and channel metadata accumulated over the previous decade. Current research corpus: 84 languages, 12 months.

Index scale

Top languages in the channel index

The full indexed corpus by language. The research corpus (see Coverage below) is drawn from this base.

Top languages by channel count
Indexed channels · NarraPrism / Teleteg corpus
0700K1.4M2.1M2.8M
Source: channels index, September 2026 · 18M+ channels and groups total.
Audience reach by language
Channel subscribers · top 18 languages
Channel subscribers sum by language · subscriber counts overlap across channels.
Research coverage

What the current research corpus covers

Twelve months of posts, September 2025 – August 2026, from public channels and discussion groups on news, politics, security and society. Every figure below is computed from the archived corpus and can be reproduced from it.

177M+
Posts, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
107K
Channels and discussion groups
84
Languages detected
12
Months, fully archived

Languages · posts

  • Russian55.4M
  • Persian23.1M
  • Chinese16.9M
  • Arabic15.9M
  • Ukrainian12.0M
  • English6.9M
  • Spanish3.6M
  • Hebrew1.9M
  • Turkish1.7M
  • Italian1.6M
  • German1.5M
  • Portuguese1.2M
  • French1.1M
  • Burmese1.0M
  • Khmer1.0M
  • + 69 more languages 

Regions

  • Eastern Europe
  • Middle East & North Africa
  • Iran & Persian-speaking communities
  • Southeast Asia
  • Central Asia & South Caucasus
  • Western & Central Europe
  • Latin America
  • South Asia
  • East Africa

Content areas

  • News & current affairs
  • Politics & governance
  • Security & conflict
  • Economy & energy
  • Society, protest & rights
  • Crime & fraud
  • Humanitarian issues & emergencies
  • Local communities

Language not determined for about 10% of posts. Volumes reflect current collection and grow as coverage expands.

Beyond the research corpus

The index behind this research holds 18M+ Telegram channels and groups across 140+ languages and grows every day, with 67M+ further channels discovered and queued. Topics range from politics, security and economy to finance and crypto, technology, education, religion, health, commerce, media and local communities, across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Iran and Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa.

The research corpus above is a small part of this index. Any topic, language or region can be collected and analysed in depth on request.

Research areas · 2025–2026 report series

Every area below is a first cut of the data we already hold. Any of them — or any other topic, region or language — can be expanded substantially: targeted collection of additional channels and groups, longer history, comments and audience reactions, and custom research built around a client's questions.

Flagship · in preparation

One Year, Many Languages

The global Telegram agenda across 84 languages: shared and diverging events, how fast the same event travels between languages, and what draws audience response.

Surface cut of the current corpus · expandable in depth and scope on request
Report · published

The Online Economy of Southeast Asia

Chinese-language channels covering Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand: recruitment, settlement, promotion, exposure and audience reaction.

Surface cut of the current corpus · expandable in depth and scope on request
Research area · on request

The Cost of Living Across Languages

Prices, currencies, energy and wages as discussed by audiences in Russian, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Ukrainian and Spanish.

Surface cut of the current corpus · expandable in depth and scope on request
Report · published

Central Asia and the South Caucasus

Agenda, economy, labour migration and infrastructure across the language communities of the region.

Surface cut of the current corpus · expandable in depth and scope on request
Research area · on request

Persian-Language Telegram Beyond Politics

Economy, water and climate, culture, education and everyday life in the second-largest language community of the corpus.

Surface cut of the current corpus · expandable in depth and scope on request
Research area · on request

Latin America in Spanish

Agenda, economy and security in Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.

Surface cut of the current corpus · expandable in depth and scope on request
How to work with us

Three ways to start

Every engagement starts from a defined question. Topic, languages, period and depth are agreed before work begins, and the price is fixed in advance. Every figure we deliver is backed by a frozen evidence set and can be reproduced on request.

[ 01 ]

Pilot study

4–6 weeks · one topic or region

A commissioned study on the question you bring: findings, audience response across languages, method notes and limitations, the evidence set behind every figure, and a walkthrough session with the analyst.

from $4,000Credited in full toward an annual subscription
[ 02 ]

Research access

Monthly or annual

Your team works in the research workspace directly: questions to the corpus, saved research, reports with disclosed sources, and topic collections chosen for your mandate. Plans scale by number of topics, research volume, archive depth and seats.

from $1,500 / monthAnnual terms available
[ 03 ]

Monitoring

Continuous · included in every plan

Standing watch on the topics, regions or languages you name. You are informed when discussion volume breaks its normal range, when a topic surfaces in sources that were silent on it, or when audience response shifts sharply.

includedFrom three monitored topics upward

Public-sector and enterprise terms — dedicated capacity, team access, data isolation, custom collection and procurement documentation — are agreed individually.

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Flagship report — in preparation

One Year, Many Languages

The global Telegram agenda, September 2025 – August 2026: which events each language community discussed, where agendas converged and diverged, how fast the same event travelled between languages, and what drew audience response. Built on the full research corpus, with every figure reproducible from the archive.

177M+ posts 84 languages 12 months Reproducible query set
Request early copy Sent on publication

Platform capabilities

Channel stance × audience reaction

What a channel publishes and how its audience reacts are two different opinions. NarraPrism separates them by default — and the gap is frequently where the analytically interesting result lives.

Cross-language comparison

One event or claim compared across languages: framing, timing and audience response in each layer, read side by side and week by week.

Coordination networks

Channels that publish the same text within hours of one another are resolved into networks, alongside who reposts whom. Coordinated copies are counted once, so volume is not inflated by duplication.

Camps and networks

Channels are profiled by the position they hold on a defined question and set against the networks they publish in. Lets the analyst answer: which camp is carrying this, through which network, and with what audience response. Delivered on commissioned work.

Methodology

NarraPrism ingests content from public Telegram channels. The current research corpus covers twelve months (September 2025 – August 2026) across 84 languages, drawn from a continuously updated index of channels and groups meeting activity and size criteria. The corpus is archived; every published figure can be reproduced from it.

Topics are measured with disclosed lexical markers over the full archive. Channel stance and audience reaction are treated as separate analytical layers — the gap between them is, in practice, where the interesting result tends to sit. Audience signal is derived from platform engagement (views, comments and reactions), normalized to within-language baselines, not from generated emotional labels. On commissioned work, positions are coded against a fixed codebook following discourse network analysis; coded positions are reported as estimates together with their validation sample.

Networks are detected from publishing behaviour — reposts and identical texts appearing across channels within hours — with no manual labels in the detection step. Channel-level camps are assigned on a defined question and can be reviewed channel by channel.

Every report states confidence bounds and known failure modes. Detailed methodology, validation procedures and reproducible query sets are provided to institutional partners under NDA.

Who this is for

Policy analysts

How audiences in different language communities receive a policy decision — channel framing vs audience reaction, before mainstream coverage catches up.

Think tanks & research orgs

Cross-language narrative briefs on contested topics, with traceable method and reproducible queries — citable in publications.

NGOs & humanitarian organizations

Detection of narrative environments that affect mission areas (migration, conflict, human rights) — empirical, not anecdotal.

Journalists & investigators

Repost-graph traces from a story back to source communities. Convergence patterns between unrelated networks.

Risk & due diligence

Narrative risk around markets, sectors and counterparties across languages — early signals with traceable method.

Media & reputation monitoring

How a brand, organization or topic is framed across language communities, and which networks carry that framing.

About

An international team of Telegram researchers and data engineers — a decade of continuous work in this space.

The team began operating large-scale messaging communities before Telegram existed. When Telegram introduced supergroups and a proper moderation architecture in 2015, that early operational involvement produced the first structured dataset on the platform — maintained and extended ever since.

Over a decade, the collection infrastructure has processed a significant portion of the Telegram ecosystem. The majority is filtered at the collection layer — inactive accounts, short-lived groups, communities below threshold. What is retained is the operational corpus on which NarraPrism's analytical layer runs.

NarraPrism is an independent commercial company. It is not affiliated with, funded by, or acting on behalf of any government, political party, campaign or advocacy movement, and takes no position on the conflicts and actors it measures. One methodology is applied to all sides. NarraPrism does not provide influence, campaign or content-promotion services.

Verification, team credentials and references are provided to institutional partners under NDA on request.

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Tell us about your use case

NarraPrism is currently in private access. We work with organizations that have a defined use case — research institutions, policy and public-sector teams, NGOs, media, and corporate risk and compliance teams. Custom analysis and sample reports are available on request.

Direct contact: research@narraprism.com

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