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I want to know if their 200k subscribers are actually real."},{"title":"Competitor channel activity monitoring","prompt":"What has the Telegram channel @openai_news posted recently? Grab the last 30 posts and filter for anything containing the word 'launch' so I can see their product announcements."},{"title":"High-engagement post discovery","prompt":"Look at the Telegram channel @techcrunch_official and find me only posts with more than 10000 views — I want to see which content is getting the most traction there."}],"resultDescription":"Returns a list of recent posts from the specified public Telegram channel, each with view counts, post content, timestamps, and links if present. 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