# Benjamin Franklin (@benjam_franklin): Telegram channel statistics Benjamin Franklin (@benjam_franklin) on Telegram: 22.4K subscribers. Daily subscriber chart, post reach, engagement rate and similar channels. - Telegram: https://t.me/benjam_franklin - Language: English - Data as of: November 12, 2026 - Web page: https://telegraminformer.com/channels/benjam_franklin Description: > We post amazing and inspiring quotes from Benjamin Franklin. > Buy Ads: @CaptainJamesCook ## Key numbers | Metric | Value | |---|---| | Subscribers | 22,357 | | Change, 24 hours | – | | Change, 7 days | – | | Change, 30 days | – | | Average post reach (views after 24 hours) | – | | ERR (reach ÷ subscribers) | – | | Interaction rate, ER (reactions ÷ views, 30 days) | 0.68% | | Reactions per post (30 days) | 3 | | Reposts per post (30 days) | not collected | | Comments per post (30 days) | not collected | | Posts per day (30 days) | 2.4 | | Citation index (30 days) | 3.7, cited by 2 channels | | Posts marked as ads (30 days) | 0 of 20 (0%) | ## Rankings by subscribers - [#1,005 among English channels](https://telegraminformer.com/channels.md?language=en&page=21) - [#1,230 worldwide](https://telegraminformer.com/channels.md?page=25) ## Views as a post ages (posts of the last 30 days) | Post age | Average views | |---|---:| | 3 days | 402 | | 7 days | 481 | ## Recent posts ### 9 Nov 2026, 07:01 UTC · 343 views > 💡 Franklin and Junto club debates 1727 > Time-box the review to thirty seconds, then stop. Franklin practical note. > Junto club debates 1727. Field note: Junto club debates 1727. > Park it beside the last card you saved. Ref e21b · marker 251. > Benjamin Franklin 🇺🇸 [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3532) ### 8 Nov 2026, 17:07 UTC · 401 views · 1 reactions > 💡 Franklin cut two pairs of glasses in half to see his dinner and the faces around him > In old age Franklin needed one pair of spectacles to see far and another to read. Switching was a nuisance, so he had the lenses of both cut in half and set in one frame: distance on top, reading below. > He explained it in a 1785 letter to his friend George Whatley. At dinner in France, he wrote, he could now... [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3531) ### 8 Nov 2026, 12:03 UTC · 413 views · 2 reactions [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3530) ### 8 Nov 2026, 12:03 UTC · 392 views · 4 reactions > ✍️ "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" began as fire advice > Franklin wrote about fire safety for Philadelphia: better to prevent a blaze than to rebuild after one. > The line hardened into a general proverb for medicine, money and policy. The original context was buckets, chimneys and insurance. > Benjamin Franklin 🇺🇸 [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3529) ### 8 Nov 2026, 07:01 UTC · 379 views · 5 reactions > 💡 Franklin's kite was never meant as a stunt for children > In 1752 he proposed flying a kite in a thunderstorm to draw electric fire from the clouds into a Leyden jar. > He described a silk kite, a sharp wire, a hemp string, and a silk ribbon to hold — standing dry under a shelter. The point was to prove lightning was electricity, not to play in the rain. > Later retellings made it look casual. His... [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3528) ## Most viewed posts, last 30 days - 4 Nov 2026, 07:01 UTC · 537 views · 6 reactions: 🪙 A speckled ax became Franklin's excuse for giving up on perfection In his Autobiography, Franklin tells of a man who asked a smith to gr... [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3513) - 4 Nov 2026, 12:03 UTC · 511 views · 6 reactions: ✍️ Franklin cut a snake into eight pieces to tell the colonies to unite On May 9, 1754, Franklin printed it in his Pennsylvania Gazette: a... [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3514) - 5 Nov 2026, 07:01 UTC · 490 views · 2 reactions: 💡 How did Franklin propose to wake Paris at dawn? In 1784, writing anonymously to the Journal de Paris, Franklin "discovered" that the sun... [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3516) - 4 Nov 2026, 17:02 UTC · 485 views · 8 reactions: ⚡️ Franklin's kite was never struck by lightning, and that's why he lived In June 1752, by his own account, Franklin flew a silk kite into... [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3515) - 5 Nov 2026, 17:02 UTC · 480 views · 3 reactions: 🎩 Franklin called the bald eagle "a bird of bad moral character" In January 1784, in a letter to his daughter Sarah, he mocked the eagle o... [Open post](https://t.me/benjam_franklin/3519) ## Who reposts and mentions it (90 days) 8 reposts and 3 mentions by other channels in our catalog. - [The Wall Street Journal (@nytimes_world)](https://telegraminformer.com/channels/nytimes_world.md): 3 reposts · 3 mentions - [Out of this World Radio (c2023) (@outofthisworldradio)](https://telegraminformer.com/channels/outofthisworldradio.md): 5 reposts ## Questions ### How many subscribers does Benjamin Franklin have? Benjamin Franklin (@benjam_franklin) has 22,357 subscribers as of November 12, 2026. ### Where does Benjamin Franklin rank? By subscribers it is #1,005 among English channels, #1,230 worldwide. ### Does Benjamin Franklin post ads? None of its 20 posts in the last 30 days carried an ad label such as #ad or Sponsored. Unlabelled promotions can’t be detected. ## About this data TelegramInformer collects these figures itself from public Telegram channels every day (subscriber counts, post views, reactions, forwards and mentions). Nothing is self-reported by channel owners. Ranks count only channels in our catalog. Cite as: “Benjamin Franklin (@benjam_franklin) Telegram statistics”, TelegramInformer, November 12, 2026, https://telegraminformer.com/channels/benjam_franklin