🔂 Telegram 7.5.1 for iOS 9.0+ & watchOS 5.0+

• Auto-Delete, Widgets and Expiring Invite Links
• Bug fixes and other minor improvements.

2021-02-28 @Telegram #iOS

🆕 Redesign the admin panel of groups and channels

@Telegram #iOS v7.5

Utyagram version 7.5.0 (2246) is released

Telegram side:
- Sync with official 7.5.0 sources - https://telegram.org/blog/autodelete-inv2

Utyagram side:
- General bug fixes and performance improvements
- Message info improvements

Download link:
- Universal Package from AppCenter
- From our channel : @UtyaAPK

🏆 The results of iOS Animation Contest are ready!

The total prize fund of $52,000 will be distributed among 14 winners.
Congratulations!

A new round of the iOS Сontest starts this Friday.
Prize fund: $52,000

t.me/contest/219
t.me/contest/220
@Telegram #contest

⚒ The source code of Telegram for iOS has been updated to v7.5.1

@Telegram #iOS #source
#reproducibleBuilds

🔂 Telegram 7.5.1 for macOS 10.11+

• Auto-Delete and Expiring Invite Links
• Bug fixes and minor improvements.

2021-03-03 @Telegram #macOS

Telegram Press Team

For media requests, please contact @PressBot on Telegram.

🤖 @Pressbot

#Telegram #press #media #bot

ℹ️ @KeralagramChannel

#super #group

List of actions to automatically convert a Basic Group to Supergroup

• Group members reach 196
• Changing group chat history visibility
• Making the group public
• Restricting a member
• Changing admin permissions or admin title
• Activate ‘Slow Mode’
• Link group to a channel
• Import group chat from other app

Note:
"The group was upgraded to a supergroup" notification won’t show on the new clients (app 5.2 iOS/Android, TDesktop 1.5.8, Native macOS 4.9)

@Telegram #feature

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Bot API 5.1

• Added updates about member status changes in chats: my_chat_member and chat_member
• Support for improved invite links
• Basic info about voice chats
• And more, read the full changelog here:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#march-9-2021

Warning: After one of the upcoming Bot API updates, user identifiers will become bigger than 2^31 - 1 and it will be no longer possible to store them in a signed 32-bit integer type. User identifiers will have up to 52 significant bits, so a 64-bit integer or double-precision float type would still be safe for storing them. Please make sure that your code can correctly handle such user identifiers.

Details of Telegram's Eurobond offering

«VTB Capital» as one of the placement agents for Telegram described to investors a wide range of potential value of the messenger — from $2.2 billion to $124 billion in 2022. A qualified investor confirmed to VTimes that he received a analytical note with similar data via VTB's investment app.

To evaluate the messenger, the investment bank compared it to five peer companies in the social media and online advertising space:

— According to the data, when comparing the EV/Sales multiplier (the ratio of the company's value to its sales), the valuation came out at $2.2 billion;
— Analysis by the EV/DAU ratio (ratio of the value of the company to the number of daily active users) which is usually used for growing IT organizations gave out the value of $124 billion.

Experts believe that the spread between the methods of evaluation in a particular case is acceptable because of the complexity of evaluating such companies.

«VTB Capital» also predicts that Telegram will grow faster than the market, and the revenue of the service at the end of 2022 could be about $200 million. The estimate was given based on the number of active users per month (over 500 million) and the number of views of publications within it (430 billion), suggesting that the project could become the basis for the development of the advertising business model and other ways of monetization.

The tentative closing date for applications is March 9, and the initial benchmark for yield is 7% (quite a high yield for convertible bonds, according to the investment bank).

Telegram received two times more placement bond applications than it had expected

The collection of bids for bond placement ended yesterday evening. This is stated in the prospectus for investors, issued by VTB Capital Group.

According to Forbes, the offer exceeded the volume of placement by 2 times, and the yield range will be 6-7%. At the same time, Telegram can increase the volume of supply from $1 billion to $1.5 billion.

Telegram has blocked the "Eye of God" bot (along with the username).

Bot stored personal information of many users.

What to expect from the upcoming Telegram update for Android

Today at 6 am UTC, the Beta version Telegram for Android (7.6.0) was released, but after 20 minutes this update was recalled by the developer (and users were forced to roll back to the old version).

Attentive users have already noticed the new features, so we're listing all the new features that will likely be in the next update:

- Voice chat recording.
- Voice chats right in the channels.
- Custom names for Voice chats.
- Possibility to raise a hand if a participant has their microphone disabled by administrators.
- Ability for anonymous admins in groups to participate in voice chat.
- The right to launch a voice chat on behalf of the channel (with the ability to choose your profile or any of your channels).
- Voice chats invite links, speaker permission invite links.
- When you swipe up while watching a video file, a mini-player (picture-in-picture) opens.

Screenshots and detailed descriptions of features will appear on @betainfoen channel after the next Beta version of the app.

#Android

🏆 The First Round of the Animated Sticker Contest starts now.

Dates: 11 Mar - 26 Mar (23:59 Dubai time)
Prizes in the first round: A contract to finish each winning sticker pack with at $200 per sticker, invitation to Round 2.

t.me/contest/225
@Telegram #contest

Telegram has launched the first round of a contest to create animated stickers

Round's objective: Create two sets of stickers with at least three vector animated stickers inside. At least one "pack" must use people as characters, and all of the stickers inside each of your packs must feature the same character.

When creating animated stickers specifically for the contest, it's important to rely on the instructions and specifications listed at contest.com/docs/animated_stickers

Applications with links to your own competition works (links to sticker packs) must be sent to @ContestBot. Make sure you have met all the conditions above beforehand.

Stage dates: March 11 — March 26 (until 23:59 Dubai time).

Round's rewards: $200 reward for completing each winning set of stickers (up to 15 stickers per pack), an invitation to participate in the next round of the contest, a chance for the authors of the best works to join the pool of permanent artists of animated Telegram stickers.

Contest prize fund: $50,000+

#contests