The most forwarded Telegram channels: Uzbekistan's president tops the list

Shavkat Mirziyoyev is the most forwarded Telegram channel in our data: 446 other channels forwarded its posts. Among the 30 most forwarded channels we can name, 15 are news and media, 9 are heads of state and government and 2 are markets and crypto. Across 256,822 public channels read between October 26, 2026 and November 1, 2026, 8.2% of posts are forwards, 55% of the 178,199 active channels forwarded at least once, and a forwarded post gets 0.85 times the views of a channel's own posts.

Which Telegram channels are forwarded the most?

The ranking counts how many channels in our index forwarded at least one post from the source in their last 100 posts. Adult, betting, piracy and similar channels are counted in the totals but left out of the list. Sources that are not in the index have no subscriber count.

How much of Telegram is forwarded?

8.20% of the 24,465,971 posts we read are forwards. 6.02% of all posts come from public channels with a link and 2.18% from people or channels without one. 55% of active channels forwarded at least once, 4.8% are mostly forwards (half or more of their last 100 posts), and a channel that forwards at all makes forwards of 5.9% of its posts at the median. 0.71% of posts are a channel forwarding its own earlier post.

Do forwarded posts get fewer views?

We compared each channel with itself: the median views of its forwarded posts against the median views of its own posts. Across 30,563 channels, a forwarded post gets about 15% fewer views than the channel's own (0.85 times). The comparison is within a channel, so size and audience cancel out; what changes is the post.

How concentrated are forwards?

174,393 channels were forwarded at least once. The top 1% of them account for 25.5% of forwarded posts, and the top 100 alone for 6.2%. Together they were the source of 1,298,984 forwarded posts; the rest is spread over a long tail of sources.

Which channels are forwarded the most in each language?

The table covers the 6 languages with the most active channels. The forward share is the share of posts that are forwards among channels of that language.

How much is forwarded from people and hidden sources?

2.18% of posts are forwarded from people or channels with no public link, which is 27% of all forwards. Only 742 posts come from sources that hide their name. The best-known name among them is Pavel Durov (443 channels, 845 posts).

What this does not measure

Only forwards from one public channel in our index to another are visible. Forwards into private chats and groups, the shares counter in Telegram's own statistics, are not. A channel that forwards many posts from one source counts once in "channels that forwarded it", and channels under one owner may forward each other. Posts copied without the forward label are a separate story, told in the copy-paste study; channel groups that advertise together are in channel networks.

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