New Delhi, July 21 (Ians) Encrypted messaging platform Telegram on Friday announced the roll-out of a new Story feature on its platform. The new feature will allow premium users of the app to post stories that can be seen by the audience of their choice, including non-premium users.
The Story feature is now available in the latest version of Telegram for Android, iOS, and Desktop.
The new feature will appear at the top of the screen, right above the global chat search, which will allow users to share photos, videos, and text that disappear after 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours, or can be set to remain permanently on the user’s profile.
Users can separately choose people who can see the story.
Telegram’s Stories will also support dual camera functionality, enabling users to capture photos and videos simultaneously with both the front and rear cameras.
Moreover, premium users can add more features to their stories,...
The Story feature is now available in the latest version of Telegram for Android, iOS, and Desktop.
The new feature will appear at the top of the screen, right above the global chat search, which will allow users to share photos, videos, and text that disappear after 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours, or can be set to remain permanently on the user’s profile.
Users can separately choose people who can see the story.
Telegram’s Stories will also support dual camera functionality, enabling users to capture photos and videos simultaneously with both the front and rear cameras.
Moreover, premium users can add more features to their stories,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
San Francisco, June 27 (Ians) Telegram Founder and CEO Pavel Durov on Tuesday introduced a new ‘Stories’ feature and said it will be available in early July.
“For years, our users have been asking us to implement Stories in Telegram. More than half of all feature requests that we receive are related to Stories,” Durov posted on his Telegram channel.
Users will be able to choose who can see their stories with granular precision — Everyone, only their contacts (with exceptions), a few selected contacts or a list of Close Friends.
Users will also be able to hide stories posted by any contact by moving them to the ‘Hidden’ list in the Contacts section instead of the main screen.
In addition to using photo and video-editing tools, users will be able to provide captions for their stories to add more context or links and tag other people.
“Building on the success of Telegram’s Video Messages,...
“For years, our users have been asking us to implement Stories in Telegram. More than half of all feature requests that we receive are related to Stories,” Durov posted on his Telegram channel.
Users will be able to choose who can see their stories with granular precision — Everyone, only their contacts (with exceptions), a few selected contacts or a list of Close Friends.
Users will also be able to hide stories posted by any contact by moving them to the ‘Hidden’ list in the Contacts section instead of the main screen.
In addition to using photo and video-editing tools, users will be able to provide captions for their stories to add more context or links and tag other people.
“Building on the success of Telegram’s Video Messages,...
- 6/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Dec 7 (Ians) Telegram Founder and CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said that the paid Telegram Premium, which we introduced just five months ago, has surpassed 1 million subscribers.
Telegram in October reduced the subscription cost of its premium tier in India from Rs 469 to Rs 179.
Globally, the premium subscription is priced in the range of 4.99 to 6.
“While it still represents just a fraction of Telegram’s overall revenue, Telegram Premium is growing steadily every day, and one day may even rival our ads,” said Durov.
Telegram has over 700 million monthly active users globally and has more than 120 million users in India, according to reports.
Durov said that their ads have significantly outperformed the market and put Telegram on a steady path towards financial sustainability.
“The future looks exciting. The additional monetisation strategies I discussed in my previous posts are already bearing fruit, and the features we are working on...
Telegram in October reduced the subscription cost of its premium tier in India from Rs 469 to Rs 179.
Globally, the premium subscription is priced in the range of 4.99 to 6.
“While it still represents just a fraction of Telegram’s overall revenue, Telegram Premium is growing steadily every day, and one day may even rival our ads,” said Durov.
Telegram has over 700 million monthly active users globally and has more than 120 million users in India, according to reports.
Durov said that their ads have significantly outperformed the market and put Telegram on a steady path towards financial sustainability.
“The future looks exciting. The additional monetisation strategies I discussed in my previous posts are already bearing fruit, and the features we are working on...
- 12/7/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Dec 2 (Ians) Telegram’s next step is to build a set of decentralised tools, including non-custodial wallets and decentralised exchanges for millions of people to securely trade and store cryptocurrencies, its Founder and CEO Pavel Durov has said.
He said that this can fix the wrongs caused by the excessive centralisation, “which let down hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrency users”.
“The Blockchain industry was built on the promise of decentralisation, but ended up being concentrated in the hands of a few who began to abuse their power. As a result, a lot of people lost their money when Ftx, one of the largest exchanges, went bankrupt,” said Durov.
Cryptocurrency users should switch to trustless transactions and self-hosted wallets that don’t rely on any single third party.
“We, developers, should steer the blockchain industry away from centralisation by building fast and easy-to-use decentralised applications for the masses. Such projects are finally feasible today,...
He said that this can fix the wrongs caused by the excessive centralisation, “which let down hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrency users”.
“The Blockchain industry was built on the promise of decentralisation, but ended up being concentrated in the hands of a few who began to abuse their power. As a result, a lot of people lost their money when Ftx, one of the largest exchanges, went bankrupt,” said Durov.
Cryptocurrency users should switch to trustless transactions and self-hosted wallets that don’t rely on any single third party.
“We, developers, should steer the blockchain industry away from centralisation by building fast and easy-to-use decentralised applications for the masses. Such projects are finally feasible today,...
- 12/2/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Nov 7 (Ians) To enhance the user chat experience, Telegram Messenger on Monday launched major updates to its application with features like Topics in Groups, Collectible Usernames, and more.
Among other features, the platform offers voice-to-text for video messages with dozens of new emoji packs for premium users, according to the company.
“I feel particularly excited about today’s Telegram update. It adds topics to large groups, transforming these linear chats into slick mobile-friendly versions of good old Internet Forums,” Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO and Founder, said in a statement.
Groups with more than 200 members can now enable “Topics” and create a separate space for any topic so that chats within the group can be easily read.
Users can now assign multiple “Collectible Usernames” to each of their accounts and publicly accessible channels on Telegram, so others can find and contact them easily.
“Topics today come packed with...
Among other features, the platform offers voice-to-text for video messages with dozens of new emoji packs for premium users, according to the company.
“I feel particularly excited about today’s Telegram update. It adds topics to large groups, transforming these linear chats into slick mobile-friendly versions of good old Internet Forums,” Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO and Founder, said in a statement.
Groups with more than 200 members can now enable “Topics” and create a separate space for any topic so that chats within the group can be easily read.
Users can now assign multiple “Collectible Usernames” to each of their accounts and publicly accessible channels on Telegram, so others can find and contact them easily.
“Topics today come packed with...
- 11/7/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, Oct 28 (Ians) Encrypted messaging platform Telegram has announced to hold an auction for usernames through a marketplace built on top of the Ton Blockchain for both individual accounts and channels.
According to TechCrunch, the concept was first brought up in August by Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, who noted the potential for “a little bit of Web 3.0 to Telegram.”
“I am really impressed by the success of the auction Ton conducted for their domain/wallet names. Wallet.ton was sold for 215,250 Toncoin (260000) while casino.ton was sold for 244000,” Durov was quoted as saying in the report.
“If Ton has been able to achieve these results, imagine how successful Telegram with its 700 million users could be if we put reserved usernames, group and channel links for auction,” he added.
Telegram and Ton Foundation use a separate website (fragment.com) as a hub for these auctions. Users can access the website using Telegram,...
According to TechCrunch, the concept was first brought up in August by Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, who noted the potential for “a little bit of Web 3.0 to Telegram.”
“I am really impressed by the success of the auction Ton conducted for their domain/wallet names. Wallet.ton was sold for 215,250 Toncoin (260000) while casino.ton was sold for 244000,” Durov was quoted as saying in the report.
“If Ton has been able to achieve these results, imagine how successful Telegram with its 700 million users could be if we put reserved usernames, group and channel links for auction,” he added.
Telegram and Ton Foundation use a separate website (fragment.com) as a hub for these auctions. Users can access the website using Telegram,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Oct 6 (Ians) Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Thursday once again claimed that hackers could have full access to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users.
In a post on Telegram, he said that there was a security issue disclosed by WhatsApp itself last week.
“All a hacker had to do to control your phone was send you a malicious video or start a video call with you on WhatsApp,” he warned users.
“A WhatsApp security issue exactly like this one was discovered in 2018, then another in 2019 and yet another one in 2020 (tap each year’s link to see the corresponding vulnerability). And yes, in 2017 before that. Prior to 2016, WhatsApp didn’t have encryption at all,” said Durov who has slammed WhatsApp several time in the past.
In November 2019, Durov issued a warning to users of WhatsApp, asking them to delete the app from their smartphones to prevent their...
In a post on Telegram, he said that there was a security issue disclosed by WhatsApp itself last week.
“All a hacker had to do to control your phone was send you a malicious video or start a video call with you on WhatsApp,” he warned users.
“A WhatsApp security issue exactly like this one was discovered in 2018, then another in 2019 and yet another one in 2020 (tap each year’s link to see the corresponding vulnerability). And yes, in 2017 before that. Prior to 2016, WhatsApp didn’t have encryption at all,” said Durov who has slammed WhatsApp several time in the past.
In November 2019, Durov issued a warning to users of WhatsApp, asking them to delete the app from their smartphones to prevent their...
- 10/6/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Moscow, Sep 28 (Ians) Apple has removed the iOS apps of Vk, the technology conglomerate behind Russia’s version of Facebook — VKontakte — from its App Store globally.
According to The Verge, Vk said its apps “are blocked by Apple” but will “continue to develop and support iOS applications”.
In response to an inquiry by the website, Apple spokesperson Adam Dema confirmed that Vk’s apps had been removed and its developer accounts shut down.
“These apps are being distributed by developers majority-owned or majority-controlled by one or more parties sanctioned by the UK government,” Dema was quoted as saying in a statement.
“In order to comply with these sanctions, Apple terminated the developer accounts associated with these apps, and the apps cannot be downloaded from any App Store, regardless of location. Users who have already downloaded these apps may continue to use them,” he added.
This week, the UK government enacted...
According to The Verge, Vk said its apps “are blocked by Apple” but will “continue to develop and support iOS applications”.
In response to an inquiry by the website, Apple spokesperson Adam Dema confirmed that Vk’s apps had been removed and its developer accounts shut down.
“These apps are being distributed by developers majority-owned or majority-controlled by one or more parties sanctioned by the UK government,” Dema was quoted as saying in a statement.
“In order to comply with these sanctions, Apple terminated the developer accounts associated with these apps, and the apps cannot be downloaded from any App Store, regardless of location. Users who have already downloaded these apps may continue to use them,” he added.
This week, the UK government enacted...
- 9/28/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Aug 23 (Ians) Telegram Founder and CEO Pavel Durov is planning to add Web 3.0 to the highly-encrypted messaging platform in the coming weeks.
Durov was impressed by an independent Ton auction for their domain/wallet names. While Wallet.ton was sold for 260,000, casino.ton fetched 244,000.
“If Ton has been able to achieve these results, imagine how successful Telegram with its 700 million users could be if we put reserved @ usernames, group and channel links for auction,” said Durov in a message on Monday.
“In addition to millions of catchy t.me addresses like @storm or @royal, all four-letter usernames could be made available for sale,” he added.
The Telegram founder said that this would create a new platform where username holders could transfer them to interested parties in protected deals – with ownership secured on the blockchain via Nft-like smart-contracts.
“Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels, stickers or emoji,...
Durov was impressed by an independent Ton auction for their domain/wallet names. While Wallet.ton was sold for 260,000, casino.ton fetched 244,000.
“If Ton has been able to achieve these results, imagine how successful Telegram with its 700 million users could be if we put reserved @ usernames, group and channel links for auction,” said Durov in a message on Monday.
“In addition to millions of catchy t.me addresses like @storm or @royal, all four-letter usernames could be made available for sale,” he added.
The Telegram founder said that this would create a new platform where username holders could transfer them to interested parties in protected deals – with ownership secured on the blockchain via Nft-like smart-contracts.
“Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels, stickers or emoji,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, Aug 13 (Ians) A day after Pavel Durov said an update had been in Apple’s app review for two weeks, the Telegram CEO and founder has now released the feature.
According to Durov, the new update comes packed with emoji-related features. However, one is missing because the tech giant requested its removal specifically.
“After extensive media coverage of my previous post, Apple got back to us with a demand to water down our pending Telegram update by removing Telemoji — higher quality vector-animated versions of the standard emoji,” the CEO and founder said wrote on his Telegram channel.
Durov said it is a puzzling move on Apple’s behalf because Telemoji would have brought an entirely new dimension to its static low-resolution emoji and would have significantly enriched their ecosystem.
“But it is good for Telegram long term, as we will now make Telemoji even more unique and recognisable.
According to Durov, the new update comes packed with emoji-related features. However, one is missing because the tech giant requested its removal specifically.
“After extensive media coverage of my previous post, Apple got back to us with a demand to water down our pending Telegram update by removing Telemoji — higher quality vector-animated versions of the standard emoji,” the CEO and founder said wrote on his Telegram channel.
Durov said it is a puzzling move on Apple’s behalf because Telemoji would have brought an entirely new dimension to its static low-resolution emoji and would have significantly enriched their ecosystem.
“But it is good for Telegram long term, as we will now make Telemoji even more unique and recognisable.
- 8/13/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, Aug 12 (Ians) Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blamed Apple for its obscure App Store review process that is delaying the encrypted messaging platform from releasing an update to its app that will “revolutionise how people express themselves in messaging”.
In his Telegram channel, Durov said the upcoming update had been stuck in Apple’s “review” for two weeks.
“The only thing that we find discouraging is that we are often unable to distribute the new versions of Telegram due to the obscure ‘review process’ imposed on all mobile apps by the tech monopolies,” Durov said.
“For example, our upcoming update — which is about to revolutionise how people express themselves in messaging — has been stuck in Apple’s ‘review’ for two weeks, without explanation or any feedback provided by Apple,” he added.
He mentioned that if Telegram, one of the top 10 most popular apps globally, is receiving this treatment, “one...
In his Telegram channel, Durov said the upcoming update had been stuck in Apple’s “review” for two weeks.
“The only thing that we find discouraging is that we are often unable to distribute the new versions of Telegram due to the obscure ‘review process’ imposed on all mobile apps by the tech monopolies,” Durov said.
“For example, our upcoming update — which is about to revolutionise how people express themselves in messaging — has been stuck in Apple’s ‘review’ for two weeks, without explanation or any feedback provided by Apple,” he added.
He mentioned that if Telegram, one of the top 10 most popular apps globally, is receiving this treatment, “one...
- 8/12/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, June 11 (Ians) Instant messaging platform Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov has confirmed that a subscription-based offering, Telegram Premium, will be coming later this month. On Friday, Durov spoke about the upcoming premium version of Telegram. “After giving it some thought, we realised that the only way to let our most demanding […]...
- 6/11/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Instant messaging platform Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov has officially announced that a subscription-based offering, Telegram Premium, will be coming later this month. Durov said that the new paid offer will go “above and beyond” what Telegram currently offers, reports 9To5Google. Much of what spurred the decision to introduce Telegram Premium was the demands of the […]...
- 6/11/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, March 19 (Ians) After the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered Apple and Google app stores to ban Telegram within the country for failing to comply with its order, its Founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on Saturday that it happened because the company was checking the wrong email address of the Supreme Court. “It […]...
- 3/19/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky brings a basket brimming with projects to this year’s AFM as he looks forward to easier international conditions as the Covid pandemic begins to recede.
Deals with two of Russia’s biggest platforms — Kinopoisk HD on local search engine giant Yandex, and Okko, part of leading bank Sber (which has a client base that numbers 90 million) — as well as a strategic partnership and first-look deal with Apple to produce Russian-language and multilingual international shows for Apple Plus TV allows the two-time Oscar nominee a breadth of material with which to work.
Top projects include “Red Rainbow,” the winner of this year’s co-production pitching competition at Series Mania. “Rainbow” is based on a true story set in 1979 about three young gay activists from West Berlin who are invited to Moscow on an official visit, not realizing that homosexuality is a crime in the Soviet Union.
Deals with two of Russia’s biggest platforms — Kinopoisk HD on local search engine giant Yandex, and Okko, part of leading bank Sber (which has a client base that numbers 90 million) — as well as a strategic partnership and first-look deal with Apple to produce Russian-language and multilingual international shows for Apple Plus TV allows the two-time Oscar nominee a breadth of material with which to work.
Top projects include “Red Rainbow,” the winner of this year’s co-production pitching competition at Series Mania. “Rainbow” is based on a true story set in 1979 about three young gay activists from West Berlin who are invited to Moscow on an official visit, not realizing that homosexuality is a crime in the Soviet Union.
- 10/31/2021
- by Nick Holdsworth
- Variety Film + TV
New Delhi, Oct 6 (Ians) As Facebook experienced a nearly six-hour outage across its services this week, messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users. According to CEO Pavel Durov, Telegram experienced a record increase in user registration and activity amid the massive Facebook outage. “The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm […]...
- 10/6/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, Jan 19 (Ians) Amid the tense political situation in the US, encrypted messaging app Telegram has blocked and shut down hundreds of public calls for violence that couldve otherwise reached tens of thousands of users in the country.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the company welcomes peaceful debate and protest, but "our Terms of Service explicitly prohibit distributing public calls to violence".
"?ivil movements all over the world rely on Telegram in order to stand up for human rights without resorting to inflicting harm," he said in a statement late on Monday.
For the last two weeks, the world has been following the events in the US with concern.
While the US represents less than 2 per cent of Telegram's user base, the company said it has been watching the situation closely.
"In early January, the Telegram moderation team started to receive an increased number of reports about US-related public activity on our platform.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the company welcomes peaceful debate and protest, but "our Terms of Service explicitly prohibit distributing public calls to violence".
"?ivil movements all over the world rely on Telegram in order to stand up for human rights without resorting to inflicting harm," he said in a statement late on Monday.
For the last two weeks, the world has been following the events in the US with concern.
While the US represents less than 2 per cent of Telegram's user base, the company said it has been watching the situation closely.
"In early January, the Telegram moderation team started to receive an increased number of reports about US-related public activity on our platform.
- 1/19/2021
- by IANS
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Jan 13 (Ians) Telegram, which has surpassed 500 million monthly active users (MAUs), registered 25 million (2.5 crore) new users joining the platform globally in the last 72 hours alone as users shun WhatsApp over data privacy concerns, its CEO Pavel Durov has revealed.
These new users came from across the globe -- 38 per cent from Asia, 27 per cent from Europe, 21 per cent from Latin America and eight per cent from Mena (Middle East and North Africa).
"This is a significant increase compared to last year, when 1.5 million new users signed up every day. We've had surges of downloads before, throughout our 7-year history of protecting user privacy. But this time is different," Durov said in a blog post on Tuesday.
"People no longer want to exchange their privacy for free services. They no longer want to be held hostage by tech monopolies that seem to think they can get away with anything...
These new users came from across the globe -- 38 per cent from Asia, 27 per cent from Europe, 21 per cent from Latin America and eight per cent from Mena (Middle East and North Africa).
"This is a significant increase compared to last year, when 1.5 million new users signed up every day. We've had surges of downloads before, throughout our 7-year history of protecting user privacy. But this time is different," Durov said in a blog post on Tuesday.
"People no longer want to exchange their privacy for free services. They no longer want to be held hostage by tech monopolies that seem to think they can get away with anything...
- 1/13/2021
- by IANS
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Jan 11 (Ians) Amid the raging debate over the upcoming WhatsApp data policy and the surge in migration of its users on rival messaging apps, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Monday said there is no comparison with Signal as the company offers a feature-rich social media platform with super encryption.
WhatsApp users in India and elsewhere who wish to join either Telegram which has raced to crossed 500 million users globally or Signal (which is yet to reveal official user numbers) are currently confused which app to choose from.
According to Durov, he does not see how the two apps can even be compared.
"Telegram is a feature-rich social media platform that you can use to stay free from the Facebook-WhatsApp monopoly. Signal represents one feature of Telegram, which is 'Secret Chats'," he argued in a statement.
"If you think you need a separate app for that feature only,...
WhatsApp users in India and elsewhere who wish to join either Telegram which has raced to crossed 500 million users globally or Signal (which is yet to reveal official user numbers) are currently confused which app to choose from.
According to Durov, he does not see how the two apps can even be compared.
"Telegram is a feature-rich social media platform that you can use to stay free from the Facebook-WhatsApp monopoly. Signal represents one feature of Telegram, which is 'Secret Chats'," he argued in a statement.
"If you think you need a separate app for that feature only,...
- 1/11/2021
- by IANS
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Dec 23 (Ians) Sending an alert to WhatsApp, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov on Wednesday said that the instant messaging app will start generating revenue starting next year as the platform is close to hitting the 500 million user mark.
Making the announcement in his Telegram channel, Durov said that all the features that are currently free will stay free.
"We will add some new features for business teams or power users. Some of these features will require more resources and will be paid for by these premium users. Regular users will be able to keep enjoying Telegram -- for free, forever," he said.
Moreover, the platform plans to introduce an ad platform for public one-to-many channels, while all parts of Telegram devoted to messaging will remain ad-free.
"We think that displaying ads in private 1-to-1 chats or group chats is a bad idea," Durov noted.
The Telegram Founder pointed out...
Making the announcement in his Telegram channel, Durov said that all the features that are currently free will stay free.
"We will add some new features for business teams or power users. Some of these features will require more resources and will be paid for by these premium users. Regular users will be able to keep enjoying Telegram -- for free, forever," he said.
Moreover, the platform plans to introduce an ad platform for public one-to-many channels, while all parts of Telegram devoted to messaging will remain ad-free.
"We think that displaying ads in private 1-to-1 chats or group chats is a bad idea," Durov noted.
The Telegram Founder pointed out...
- 12/26/2020
- by IANS
- GlamSham
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