diff --git a/snscrape/modules/telegram.py b/snscrape/modules/telegram.py
index 8b0ece7..a65671c 100644
--- a/snscrape/modules/telegram.py
+++ b/snscrape/modules/telegram.py
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ class TelegramChannelScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 			raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
 		soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
 		membersDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = 'tgme_page_extra')
-		if membersDiv.text.endswith(' members'):
-			kwargs['members'] = int(membersDiv.text[:-8].replace(' ', ''))
+		if membersDiv.text.endswith((' members', ' subscribers')):
+			kwargs['members'] = int(''.join(membersDiv.text.split(' ')[:-1]))
 		kwargs['photo'] = soup.find('img', class_ = 'tgme_page_photo_image').attrs['src']
 
 		r, soup = self._initial_page()