#oldschool 🇧🇾 The old users will understand that such expected restrictions have actually existed for about 6 years. There is an official Belarusian channel from the Telegram team itself, where, in addition to polling subscribers on which presidential candidate to vote for, they also introduced an experimental option (available only to developers once), through which some poll options can only be voted on by Belarusian users. 🗳 In this poll, there is an option that everyone can vote on, while for the others, only those with a +375 phone number attached can vote.

🗳 There is also a second poll with the exact same idea. It concerns the blocking of channels that leak personal data of punishers.

🥺 This is exactly what is mentioned in Durov's comment. This is the function we are waiting for from Telegram.

❗️❗️publish posts with "draft:" as all others. Recently, many channels have adopted an emoji pack that imitates a draft to lure subscribers into opening a channel. This is not for April Fool's Day; it is due to the successful spread of the joke.

👿 However, the original pack [address CHernovik784], once it became clear that it had exploded in popularity, was sold to an account, after which "casino" was added to the pack's name. To be honest, the scheme did not work — not many were lured into gambling, and as soon as large channels found out about it, they immediately panicked and started creating their own copies of the emoji pack.

🎁 Our new Login Widget is a gift to developers: they can not only quickly authorize users, but also request users’ phone numbers and permission to message them on Telegram.

🆓 Sign-up, login, phone verification, and a follow-up communication channel in one — completely free.

© @durov/493

🤩 In the BotFather mini-app, a future feature called Bot Cloud was found.

🇪🇺 The EU wants to force mandatory ID checks on anyone using social media — and ban people under 18 from accessing it. To that end, the EU Commission spent over a year building an “age verification app”, which its president pompously unveiled yesterday.

Today, this app got hacked in just 2 minutes.

But don’t rush to laugh at EU bureaucrats.

Their age verification app was hackable by design — it trusted the device (that’s instant game over). Unless the EU is run by clowns 🤡, this is their real plan:

Step 1 — Present a “privacy-respecting” but hackable app.
Step 2 — Get hacked (*YOU ARE HERE*).
Step 3 — Remove privacy to “fix” the app.

Result — a surveillance tool sold as “privacy-respecting”.

The EU bureaucrats needed an excuse to silently start turning their “privacy-respecting” age verification app into a surveillance mechanism over all Europeans using social media. Today’s “surprising hack” just handed this excuse to them.

🦇 Stay vigilant!

-@Durov

🛠 Telegram Enhances Call Engine with New tgcalls Update

Telegram has released a new update to its tgcalls (VoIP library), bringing several backend improvements to strengthen voice and video call performance across the platform.

Key Improvements:

⚙️ Enhanced Call Stability
Improved handling of audio and video streams ensures more reliable voice chats and fewer unexpected disruptions.

⚡ Performance Optimization
Internal code refinements help reduce CPU usage and improve efficiency, resulting in smoother call experiences.

🌐 Better Network Handling
Upgraded connection and reconnection logic allows calls to remain stable even on weaker or fluctuating internet connections.

🧪 Bug Fixes & Reliability Improvements
Fixes for edge-case issues in group calls and live streams, improving overall system stability.

🧩 Core Engine Refinements
Updates to the underlying VoIP engine that powers:

- Voice chats

- Group calls

- Live streaming features

This is a backend-focused update, so there are no new features or UI changes. However, users may notice:

- Clearer and more stable voice calls

- Faster call connection times

- Reduced call drops and audio issues

Thanks : 💌💌💌
Source : 💌💌💌

⚡️ You can now create agentic bots in just 2 taps 🤖

Ask the devs of the services you use to support it 👇

https://core.telegram.org/bots/features#managed-bots

Group admins can assign tags to users — or embrace the chaos and let them assign their own. 🔥

© @durov/489

❗️❗️publish posts with "draft:" as all others. Recently, many channels have adopted an emoji pack that imitates a draft to lure subscribers into opening a channel. This is not for April Fool's Day; it is due to the successful spread of the joke.

👿 However, the original pack [address CHernovik784], once it became clear that it had exploded in popularity, was sold to an account, after which "casino" was added to the pack's name. To be honest, the scheme did not work — not many were lured into gambling, and as soon as large channels found out about it, they immediately panicked and started creating their own copies of the emoji pack.