Analytics: what's actually happening across your Telegram channels
Gista's new Analytics section shows who broke a story first, who's just reposting it, who gets talked about most, and which sources state facts without citing where they came from.
A digest answers "what important happened in my topic." But it has a blind spot: it doesn't show how the channels you follow actually behave — which ones are real primary sources, which just repost other people's news, and who they write about most. That's what the new Analytics section in Gista is for: it looks at the whole corpus of posts from your channels, not just the ones that passed your interest filter.
What channels are actually talking about
The topic cloud shows which topics genuinely dominate your sources over the last 24 hours — ranked by frequency, not by how you phrased your interest. Clicking a topic opens the list of specific posts with links to the originals: not an abstract label, but checkable examples. Next to it, the "Top channel topics" heatmap shows what each channel actually covers, not just its latest headline.
Who reported it first, and who just copied it
"Story Map" groups posts from several channels about the same event into one story and shows who reported it first and how many minutes or hours it took the rest to catch up. For media teams, that's a way to tell a source from a repeater. Inside each story, a "Framing breakdown" (based on Entman's framing theory) shows how each channel defines the problem, names the cause, assigns moral judgment, and proposes a remedy. The same news event can read very differently across channels — now that's visible directly, not just felt.
Newsmakers: who gets mentioned, and in what tone
The "Newsmakers" section counts which people, companies, and organizations show up most often across your channels' posts — broken down by tone (negative/neutral/positive) and how many distinct channels wrote about them. Every card comes with example headlines, not just a number. It's the same tone field an LLM already assigns to each post, and it's the same one already used to show sentiment next to the importance score in digests.
How reliable a source is, at a glance
"Source citation" is a metric for news channels (60%+ news posts): how often a channel makes bare claims without citing a source, plus a separate share of "unverified as fact." It's an AI assessment of the post text, not an editorial audit — and it doesn't score political leaning, only the formal habit of backing up what's written. Columnists, investigative pieces, and personal blogs are excluded from this ranking; they're a different genre.
Your own channel list, just for analytics
By default, Analytics runs on the channels from your digests, but you can build a separate source list just for analytics — say, to track competitors or an industry without spinning up a digest for it. Lists are created and edited right on the Analytics page, and individual channels can be toggled off without deleting them.
All of this is already live in your dashboard — open Analytics and see what's happening in the channels you're already following. Start for free.