The most popular Telegram reactions: ❤️ takes 36% of 2.1 billion

is the most used reaction on Telegram: it makes up 36.1% of the 2.1 billion standard reactions we counted, ahead of (15.2%) and (10.6%). is also the most used reaction in 64% of the 207,447 channels we could rank. The numbers come from the last 100 posts of 256,822 public channels, read between October 26, 2026 and November 1, 2026.

What is the most popular reaction on Telegram?

leads with 36.1% of reactions and appears on 12,714,342 posts in 193,337 channels. takes 15.2%, 10.6% and 4.3%. Together the top four are 66.2% of everything. 75 different standard emoji appeared at least once; the table shows the top 20.

Reaction	Share of all reactions	Posts with it	Channels where it is the most used
	36.11%	12,714,342	132,707
	15.20%	7,572,814	37,321
	10.56%	6,131,358	12,879
	4.28%	2,043,437	3,056
	3.01%	1,611,076	3,368
	2.92%	821,526	3,606
	2.35%	1,778,357	880
	1.74%	1,903,715	689
	1.64%	1,089,319	888
	1.45%	753,916	368
	1.35%	727,918	265
	1.34%	862,874	1,428
	1.27%	487,189	1,518
	1.17%	728,388	630
	1.07%	999,390	1,195
	1.04%	639,225	398
	1.03%	416,660	838
	0.91%	909,646	298
	0.82%	493,682	460
	0.77%	519,929	291

How many Telegram posts get reactions?

68% of posts have at least one reaction, and 85.6% of active channels received reactions in the window. A post that gets reactions gets a median of 19 of them, spread over a median of 3 different reactions. 23.2% of such posts show five or more kinds, while on 39.5% one reaction takes 80% or more of the total. For reactions relative to views, see engagement rate benchmarks.

Which reactions are negative, and where do they appear?

We count as negative. They make up 4.8% of all reactions. Sad reactions () add another 2.6%. News channels get the most negative reactions, 15.5% of theirs, about 3 times the overall share. Readers react to the event, not to the channel.

Favourite reactions by language

Here “distinctive” means the reaction whose share in a language is highest relative to its share across all channels, among reactions with at least a 1% share in that language. is strongest in Burmese-language channels (54.2%). The most lopsided signature is in German, used 13.1 times as often as overall.

Language	Active channels	Top three	Most distinctive
Russian	48,692	39.4%, 10.5%, 10.3%	(1.6× more often than overall)
English	18,205	33.9%, 15.6%, 11.6%	(2.3× more often than overall)
Persian	15,344	35.4%, 13.9%, 13.8%	(7.2× more often than overall)
Arabic	14,778	53.9%, 9.8%, 5.2%	(3.2× more often than overall)
Uzbek	6,802	33.9%, 19.3%, 9.6%	(2.5× more often than overall)
Chinese	5,683	23.2%, 21.6%, 11.3%	(5.2× more often than overall)
Spanish	2,736	35.8%, 14.5%, 13.8%	(5.5× more often than overall)
Ukrainian	2,441	25%, 13.1%, 11.3%	(11.5× more often than overall)
Burmese	1,400	54.2%, 12.5%, 6.5%	(7× more often than overall)
Italian	1,138	30.5%, 22.8%, 10.5%	(6× more often than overall)
French	1,075	36%, 19.6%, 7.1%	(4.4× more often than overall)
Amharic	1,008	49.4%, 17.1%, 6.3%	(2.9× more often than overall)
German	947	28%, 26%, 7.1%	(13.1× more often than overall)
Portuguese	851	33.1%, 18%, 10.9%	(3.8× more often than overall)
Hindi	611	51.6%, 17.1%, 6%	(4.5× more often than overall)
Indonesian	596	38.2%, 16.3%, 9.2%	(8.7× more often than overall)
Turkish	561	32%, 12.1%, 11%	(6.4× more often than overall)
Vietnamese	357	36.8%, 16.6%, 8.6%	(4.8× more often than overall)
Hebrew	329	21.5%, 19.6%, 8.1%	(7× more often than overall)
Kurdish	300	50%, 8.2%, 7.3%	(5.9× more often than overall)

Favourite reactions by topic

ranges from 20.5% of reactions in real estate channels to 60.7% in religion channels. The sharpest signature belongs to fashion: appears 20.4 times as often as across all channels.

Topic	Active channels	Top three	Most distinctive
News	22,592	22.9%, 15.4%, 8.8%	(6× more often than overall)
Education	13,438	48.6%, 14.3%, 11%	(1.3× more often than overall)
Events and local	5,912	37.9%, 12.8%, 8.5%	(2.6× more often than overall)
Religion	5,195	60.7%, 9.8%, 8.9%	(7.4× more often than overall)
Technology	5,022	31.1%, 21.4%, 11.9%	(2.6× more often than overall)
Crypto	4,255	23.5%, 19.8%, 12.6%	(9.6× more often than overall)
Finance	4,049	33.4%, 22.1%, 14%	(1.7× more often than overall)
Humor and memes	3,996	32.7%, 13.9%, 8.8%	(4.7× more often than overall)
Games	3,630	44.2%, 11.1%, 8.6%	(4.6× more often than overall)
Business	3,154	30.8%, 21.6%, 18.1%	(1.7× more often than overall)
Shopping and deals	3,126	39.2%, 13.3%, 11.4%	(2.2× more often than overall)
Sport	3,103	43.6%, 11.1%, 9.5%	(3.3× more often than overall)
Health and fitness	3,055	37.9%, 16.7%, 15.1%	(2.6× more often than overall)
Beauty	3,044	42.1%, 15.6%, 8.5%	(3.5× more often than overall)
Blogs	2,860	49.5%, 8.4%, 8.1%	(2.1× more often than overall)
Jobs and careers	1,940	41.1%, 14.9%, 11%	(2.7× more often than overall)
Music	1,726	45.2%, 9.5%, 9%	(15× more often than overall)
Entertainment	1,611	39.2%, 15.6%, 7.6%	(2.7× more often than overall)
Motivation	1,406	52.8%, 10.6%, 7.5%	(3.8× more often than overall)
Cars	1,405	27%, 23%, 19.8%	(1.9× more often than overall)
Art	1,338	44.6%, 11.7%, 9.5%	(7.7× more often than overall)
Anime	1,216	52.8%, 11.1%, 7.1%	(4× more often than overall)
Food	1,142	41.4%, 19.9%, 17.7%	(1.7× more often than overall)
Travel	1,074	30.5%, 19%, 16.4%	(4× more often than overall)
Fashion	872	44.3%, 16.8%, 7%	(20.4× more often than overall)
Esoteric	857	52.9%, 9.8%, 9.2%	(3.8× more often than overall)
Life hacks	780	46.1%, 9.4%, 7.8%	(2.6× more often than overall)
Design	707	37.9%, 18.3%, 15.4%	(3.7× more often than overall)
Psychology	707	47.7%, 12.6%, 11.9%	(2.3× more often than overall)
Aggregators	590	25.4%, 18%, 16%	(8.7× more often than overall)
Books	587	47.5%, 11.1%, 10.3%	(2.7× more often than overall)
Announcements	544	55.1%, 9.6%, 7.7%	(2.5× more often than overall)
Real estate	542	27.1%, 20.5%, 19.4%	(3.7× more often than overall)
Activities	532	40%, 13.9%, 13.2%	(1.8× more often than overall)
AI	496	21.5%, 17.1%, 11.5%	(12.2× more often than overall)
Law	411	32.8%, 22.6%, 10.4%	(2.8× more often than overall)
Marketing	361	24.6%, 14.5%, 14.1%	(14× more often than overall)

Custom emoji reactions and Stars

5.8% of all reactions are custom emoji, which a channel unlocks with boosts. 9.8% of channels that get reactions received at least one custom reaction. The share is highest in the Under 10K band (10.9%). Paid reactions are counted separately: 72,026,336 Stars appear on these posts, see the Stars economy study.

What this does not measure

Channel admins choose which reactions readers may use, so a missing emoji may be switched off rather than unpopular. Counts include reactions from any viewer, and reactions can be bought like views. The public web version shows reaction totals, not who reacted. Channels without a public web page are not in the sample.

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