Continuous conversation sensemaking

Telegram Monitoring

How it works

In many countries, public discourse is migrating from large social media platforms to Telegram groups. These are notoriously difficult to monitor: hundreds of messages a day in threaded conversations, often in several languages, around the clock.

The bot is added to a public Telegram group, reads the messages participants share, and turns them into a structured report: the topics people raise, the narratives and arguments that form, and which groups advance them.

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BOT
‹ Eastbank Talks248 members, 41 online
Monitor botlistening - never posts online
anon · 7f3Convoy turned back at the checkpoint again.
anon · 4m0القافلة لم تمر اليوم.
anon · 9xeЗнову закрили перехід.
live · 1,240 today ●
TELEGRAM
ACheckpoints
BAid convoys
CCeasefire
Crossing closed Detentions Convoy blocked Price of bread Talks in doubt Who broke it
TOPICS
Opinion groups
Trust the army38%
Blame both sides34%
Aid before politics28%
GROUPS
Where the room splits
Ceasefire holds 54%46% Already broken
CRUX
Rising · last 72hescalating
“traitors” · mentions7× in 3 days
SHIFTS
BRIEFING
Eastbank Talks - weekly read
[12]
[3,7]
[21]
Cited · anonymised
BRIEFING

01 - Listen

Silent in the room

The bot sits in a public group like any other member. It stays silent and reads every message participants share, around the clock.

02 - Topics

From raw stream to topics

From the raw stream it extracts the topics that occupy the group, and the concrete issues raised under each: a closed crossing, a blocked convoy, the price of bread.

03 - Groups

The opinion groups, mapped

It then maps the opinion groups in the conversation: the recurring positions people take and what share of the room holds each one.

04 - Cruxes

The question the room splits on

It identifies the crux, the question on which the room genuinely splits, and shows how evenly or unevenly opinion divides across it.

05 - Shifts

Which narratives gain ground

Over time it flags shifts: which narratives gain ground and where language sharpens, down to a single term spiking within days.

06 - Report

A cited briefing, every week

Everything condenses into a weekly briefing. Each finding cites the messages behind it, and all participants remain anonymous.

Understanding before intervention

See it in motion

A conceptual motion piece - the bot listening inside a Telegram group, then the conversation combing into structure: topics, opinion groups, and a cited briefing.