TeleScope is an extensive dataset suite that comprises metadata for about 500K Telegram channels and downloaded message metadata from all 71K public channels within this 500k channels accounting for about 120M crawled messages. In addition to metadata, TeleScope suite provides enrichments like language detection and active periods for each channel and telegram entity extracted from messages. It also comprises channel connections and user interaction data built using Telegram’s message-forwarding feature to study multiple use cases including information spread and message-forwarding patterns. The dataset is designed for diverse applications, independent of specific research objectives, and sufficiently versatile to facilitate the replication of social media studies comparable to those conducted on platforms like X (former Twitter). Further information on the content of the files can be found in the file TeleScope_readme_v1-0-0.txt (see 'Technical Report'). keywords: Computational Social Science; Information Science, Web and Social Media; text analysis; text processing; text communication; social media; Online discourse; Information Dissemination; Information Analysis

The growth of the dataset is based on snowball sampling

Web Crawling; Web Scraping