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Privacy Settings for Stories
• When posting a story, you can choose from four privacy settings: Everyone, My Contacts, Close Friends, and Selected Contacts.
• Each setting can be customized, allowing you to include or exclude individual users, or all members of specific groups.
• Additionally, you can create a list of users who will never see your story, regardless of the selected privacy settings.
• You can also disable screenshots so that the viewers won’t be able to screenshot your story on their devices or share it with others.
More on this update can be found here.
• When posting a story, you can choose from four privacy settings: Everyone, My Contacts, Close Friends, and Selected Contacts.
• Each setting can be customized, allowing you to include or exclude individual users, or all members of specific groups.
• Additionally, you can create a list of users who will never see your story, regardless of the selected privacy settings.
• You can also disable screenshots so that the viewers won’t be able to screenshot your story on their devices or share it with others.
More on this update can be found here.
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Editing Stories
• You can edit the privacy settings and pretty much any details of your story at any time: captions, text overlays, stickers, and other elements—all without the need of deleting your story and creating a new one.
• To edit a story, open the menu button, and choose “Edit Story.”
• While a story is up, you can change who can view it: open the privacy settings in the top right corner, and choose between the options: Everyone, My Contacts, Close Friends, or Selected Contacts.
• You can view your stories from Settings > My Stories. There you can tap on any story to see who viewed it, change its visibility, or remove it from your profile.
More on this update can be found here.
• You can edit the privacy settings and pretty much any details of your story at any time: captions, text overlays, stickers, and other elements—all without the need of deleting your story and creating a new one.
• To edit a story, open the menu button, and choose “Edit Story.”
• While a story is up, you can change who can view it: open the privacy settings in the top right corner, and choose between the options: Everyone, My Contacts, Close Friends, or Selected Contacts.
• You can view your stories from Settings > My Stories. There you can tap on any story to see who viewed it, change its visibility, or remove it from your profile.
More on this update can be found here.
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Detailed View Statistics
• You can see a list of those who have viewed your stories.
• You can open the list of viewers directly in the story or from the archive at Settings > My Stories.
• Filters allow you to see which contacts of yours viewed the story, and let you prioritize recent views or reactions.
• To see if a specific user has viewed your story, simply enter their name in the search bar.
• This list becomes inaccessible 24 hours after the story expires. Premium users have permanent access to it.
• Note that the reaction and view counts always remain accessible.
• Premium users can enable Stealth Mode to anonymously see stories of other users. This will remove them from the viewer list of stories posted 5 minutes before and 25 minutes after enabling Stealth Mode.
More on this update can be found here.
• You can see a list of those who have viewed your stories.
• You can open the list of viewers directly in the story or from the archive at Settings > My Stories.
• Filters allow you to see which contacts of yours viewed the story, and let you prioritize recent views or reactions.
• To see if a specific user has viewed your story, simply enter their name in the search bar.
• This list becomes inaccessible 24 hours after the story expires. Premium users have permanent access to it.
• Note that the reaction and view counts always remain accessible.
• Premium users can enable Stealth Mode to anonymously see stories of other users. This will remove them from the viewer list of stories posted 5 minutes before and 25 minutes after enabling Stealth Mode.
More on this update can be found here.
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Any user can view, create, and interact with stories, but premium users have exclusive capabilities:
• Priority Order: Stories of premium users will appear first in the header for other users.
• Stealth Mode: Premium users can anonymously view stories of other users.
• Permanent Views History: Premium users can permanently see the list of those who viewed their stories from the archive.
• Expiration Durations: Premium users can choose from multiple expiration durations instead of the standard 24 hours.
• Save Stories to Gallery: Premium users can save unprotected stories to their gallery.
• Longer Captions: Premium users can have captions up to 2048 characters long in their stories.
• Links and Formatting: Premium users can add links and formatted text to their story captions.
• More Stories: Premium users can publish up to 100 stories daily.
More on this update can be found here.
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Bot API was updated to version 6.8
What's new:
• Added the field
• Added the field
• Added the field
• Added the method unpinAllGeneralForumTopicMessages.
• Increased to 512 characters the maximum length of the
See the full changelog for details on the official website.
#update #BotAPI
What's new:
• Added the field
story to the class Message for messages with forwarded stories. Currently, it holds no information.• Added the field
voter_chat to the class PollAnswer, to contain channel chat voters in Polls. For backward compatibility, the field user in such objects will contain the user 136817688 (@Channel_Bot).• Added the field
emoji_status_expiration_date to the class Chat.• Added the method unpinAllGeneralForumTopicMessages.
• Increased to 512 characters the maximum length of the
startapp parameter in direct Web App links.See the full changelog for details on the official website.
#update #BotAPI
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I find it quite silly to compare the current daily limits for stories on Telegram (💪 ) with WhatsApp (🤮 ) for many reasons, including:
1) The current limits are required for a soft launch - we need to have a gradual increase in load, not a spike. It’s always easier to increase the limits server-side post launch rather than decrease them.
2) Stories on Telegram are a very different genre as they are displayed on the main screen, not buried in a separate tab as on WhatsApp. As such, they are much more visible and can also be much more annoying if allowed with no limits at all.
1) The current limits are required for a soft launch - we need to have a gradual increase in load, not a spike. It’s always easier to increase the limits server-side post launch rather than decrease them.
2) Stories on Telegram are a very different genre as they are displayed on the main screen, not buried in a separate tab as on WhatsApp. As such, they are much more visible and can also be much more annoying if allowed with no limits at all.
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That is not 100% certain, but there is a reason why none of the major social media platforms allow to save media content locally on the device.
They are trying to incentivize link sharing to drive additional views and potential followers for their content creators. So allowing to save content for everyone may have an adverse effect on people creating original content, as people would be just stealing their content and reposting as their own rather then linking it.
When limited only to small fraction of users (in this case, premium, similar to YouTube), saving other people’s content becomes less of an issue.
They are trying to incentivize link sharing to drive additional views and potential followers for their content creators. So allowing to save content for everyone may have an adverse effect on people creating original content, as people would be just stealing their content and reposting as their own rather then linking it.
When limited only to small fraction of users (in this case, premium, similar to YouTube), saving other people’s content becomes less of an issue.
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We decided to make formatting premium for now out of concern that promoters and spammers will start embedding links to advertise their referral links and Telegram will become a giant junk marketplace.
Telegram stories are a new genre not only because they are very visible right in the chat list, but also because they can be cross posted in the profile page grids. Active links in these places can become a spammer’s dream. Again, there is a reason why platforms like Instagram don’t allow clickable links in captions for posts.
Spam is a tricky animal: if you set the wrong incentives, it will be so commercially appealing so it will become next to impossible to stop it.
Having said that, other parts of formatting (bold, italic etc) in captions can easily become available for free. We just paywalled all formatting for now as it was easier to implement. However, the current limitation is easy to bypass, as anyone who wants to emphasize some text can simply add it on the media in the editor instead of using the caption.
Telegram stories are a new genre not only because they are very visible right in the chat list, but also because they can be cross posted in the profile page grids. Active links in these places can become a spammer’s dream. Again, there is a reason why platforms like Instagram don’t allow clickable links in captions for posts.
Spam is a tricky animal: if you set the wrong incentives, it will be so commercially appealing so it will become next to impossible to stop it.
Having said that, other parts of formatting (bold, italic etc) in captions can easily become available for free. We just paywalled all formatting for now as it was easier to implement. However, the current limitation is easy to bypass, as anyone who wants to emphasize some text can simply add it on the media in the editor instead of using the caption.
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I disagree that the blue header is “ugly” but agree that as Telegram becomes more focused on media (such as stories), the blue background starts to look “noisy” and obsolete.
The white (semi-transparent blurred) header is eventually coming on Android. We tried many different versions of it in the last few years. We shall launch the white header for everyone once we get it right and we are certain the devices of the majority can support it without battery drain.
By the way, 14.08.2023 is the 10-year anniversary of the iOS app. Not the Android one🤫
The white (semi-transparent blurred) header is eventually coming on Android. We tried many different versions of it in the last few years. We shall launch the white header for everyone once we get it right and we are certain the devices of the majority can support it without battery drain.
By the way, 14.08.2023 is the 10-year anniversary of the iOS app. Not the Android one
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Telegram Desktop updated to version 4.9.2
What's new:
— Remove single recently used emoji or reset the list from context menu.
— Change all emoji skin colors from Emoji & People section.
— Connected Websites section in Settings > Privacy and Security.
— Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
Download: from official website or GitHub.
#update #desktop
What's new:
— Remove single recently used emoji or reset the list from context menu.
— Change all emoji skin colors from Emoji & People section.
— Connected Websites section in Settings > Privacy and Security.
— Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
Download: from official website or GitHub.
#update #desktop
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I am typing this message using Telegram for iPadOS. I have been actively using it since last year and haven’t encountered any issues with cache management so far.
Noted though.
Noted though.
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I avoid the Apple “ecosystem” altogether and consider iCloud a surveillance tool + Samsung has had superior hardware for years.
But part of my job is to make sure Telegram works better than the competition on all platforms, so I have to use everything.
But part of my job is to make sure Telegram works better than the competition on all platforms, so I have to use everything.
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Story circles in group chats had to be removed after internal testing, because the ability to quickly open people’s profile pages was lost.
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We decided to make formatting premium for now out of concern that promoters and spammers will start embedding links to advertise their referral links and Telegram will become a giant junk marketplace.
Telegram stories are a new genre not only because they are very visible right in the chat list, but also because they can be cross posted in the profile page grids. Active links in these places can become a spammer’s dream. Again, there is a reason why platforms like Instagram don’t allow clickable links in captions for posts.
Spam is a tricky animal: if you set the wrong incentives, it will be so commercially appealing so it will become next to impossible to stop it.
Having said that, other parts of formatting (bold, italic etc) in captions can easily become available for free. We just paywalled all formatting for now as it was easier to implement. However, the current limitation is easy to bypass, as anyone who wants to emphasize some text can simply add it on the media in the editor instead of using the caption.
Telegram stories are a new genre not only because they are very visible right in the chat list, but also because they can be cross posted in the profile page grids. Active links in these places can become a spammer’s dream. Again, there is a reason why platforms like Instagram don’t allow clickable links in captions for posts.
Spam is a tricky animal: if you set the wrong incentives, it will be so commercially appealing so it will become next to impossible to stop it.
Having said that, other parts of formatting (bold, italic etc) in captions can easily become available for free. We just paywalled all formatting for now as it was easier to implement. However, the current limitation is easy to bypass, as anyone who wants to emphasize some text can simply add it on the media in the editor instead of using the caption.
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Stories from Telegram
An increasing number of users are starting to see stories posted on behalf of Telegram. These stories visually showcase some of the story features from the messenger’s latest update.
Previously, we reported that the Telegram team intends to share information about app updates in a new format (in addition to the long-standing text updates in the messenger’s official account).
It isn’t possible to hide these stories from the main screen using the same method as hiding stories from contacts: the standard hiding method is not available in this case.
#Stories
An increasing number of users are starting to see stories posted on behalf of Telegram. These stories visually showcase some of the story features from the messenger’s latest update.
Previously, we reported that the Telegram team intends to share information about app updates in a new format (in addition to the long-standing text updates in the messenger’s official account).
It isn’t possible to hide these stories from the main screen using the same method as hiding stories from contacts: the standard hiding method is not available in this case.
#Stories
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Does The Ability to Post Stories Without Having Premium Subscription Depend on Your Region?
In the version 10.0.0 of Telegram's mobile applications, posting Stories became available even to accounts without a Telegram Premium subscription. However, many users have discovered that this feature hasn't appeared for them.
The editorial team at @tginfoen believes that the ability to post Stories for users without a premium subscription depends on the country's phone code linked to the Telegram account.
For instance, in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, India and Iran, publishing Stories without Telegram Premium isn't possible, whereas users from Belarus and Kazakhstan are permitted to do so.
A detailed article about the editorial team's observations and story publication in other countries is available at the following link:
• tginfo.me/stories-by-countries.
#Stories
In the version 10.0.0 of Telegram's mobile applications, posting Stories became available even to accounts without a Telegram Premium subscription. However, many users have discovered that this feature hasn't appeared for them.
The editorial team at @tginfoen believes that the ability to post Stories for users without a premium subscription depends on the country's phone code linked to the Telegram account.
For instance, in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, India and Iran, publishing Stories without Telegram Premium isn't possible, whereas users from Belarus and Kazakhstan are permitted to do so.
A detailed article about the editorial team's observations and story publication in other countries is available at the following link:
• tginfo.me/stories-by-countries.
#Stories
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New Features on the Telegram Ads Platform
Over the past few weeks Telegram Ads (the official advertising platform) has undergone several significant changes. Let’s explore the new possibilities now available to advertisers:
• External links with no length restrictions:
This new feature allows advertisers to add special UTM tags to the URLs entered, providing detailed information about each traffic source.
• Fast food advertising now permitted:
The previous ban on promoting fast food products on the platform has been completely lifted.
• Information about reasons for ad rejection:
Telegram now informs advertisers which specific group of requirements their ad doesn’t meet, such as “Destination quality”, “Destination functionality”, “Irrelevant destinations”, or “Manipulation of content.”
• Metrics viewing for CTR, CPM, CPC, CPS of published ads:
Thanks to this new feature, advertisers can assess the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns.
• Ability to use custom emojis in ad text:
Capture the attention of potential clients and subscribers using unconventional emojis.
#AboutAds
Over the past few weeks Telegram Ads (the official advertising platform) has undergone several significant changes. Let’s explore the new possibilities now available to advertisers:
• External links with no length restrictions:
This new feature allows advertisers to add special UTM tags to the URLs entered, providing detailed information about each traffic source.
• Fast food advertising now permitted:
The previous ban on promoting fast food products on the platform has been completely lifted.
• Information about reasons for ad rejection:
Telegram now informs advertisers which specific group of requirements their ad doesn’t meet, such as “Destination quality”, “Destination functionality”, “Irrelevant destinations”, or “Manipulation of content.”
• Metrics viewing for CTR, CPM, CPC, CPS of published ads:
Thanks to this new feature, advertisers can assess the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns.
• Ability to use custom emojis in ad text:
Capture the attention of potential clients and subscribers using unconventional emojis.
#AboutAds
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Telegram Desktop updated to version 4.9.4
What's new:
— Default private chats / groups / channels notification settings.
— Forwarded / reply-to-a-story icon in chats list message preview.
— Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
Download: from official website or GitHub.
#update #desktop
What's new:
— Default private chats / groups / channels notification settings.
— Forwarded / reply-to-a-story icon in chats list message preview.
— Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
Download: from official website or GitHub.
#update #desktop
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Indonesian Users Can Now Post Stories Without Premium
Our readers report users with Indonesian phone numbers now can post stories without Telegram Premium.
We keep looking into expansion of this feature into other countries, final availability details are still pending.
We maintain a list of countries in our article.
Subscribe to @tginfo in Indonesian.
#Indonesia #stories
Our readers report users with Indonesian phone numbers now can post stories without Telegram Premium.
We keep looking into expansion of this feature into other countries, final availability details are still pending.
We maintain a list of countries in our article.
Subscribe to @tginfo in Indonesian.
#Indonesia #stories
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Does The Ability to Post Stories Without Having Premium Subscription Depend on Your Region?
In the version 10.0.0 of Telegram's mobile applications, posting Stories became available even to accounts without a Telegram Premium subscription. However, many…
In the version 10.0.0 of Telegram's mobile applications, posting Stories became available even to accounts without a Telegram Premium subscription. However, many…
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Telegram Is Preparing to Bring Stories to Channels
According to crawled data from @tgcrawl, changes were made in Telegram for Android that indicate that stories are coming for channels.
From the changes we can guess that there will be a boosting system similar to Discord’s. For example, the number of the stories that can be posted might depend on the number of boosts received by the channel form its subscribers.
Apparently, only Telegram Premium users will be able to boost channels.
#stories
According to crawled data from @tgcrawl, changes were made in Telegram for Android that indicate that stories are coming for channels.
From the changes we can guess that there will be a boosting system similar to Discord’s. For example, the number of the stories that can be posted might depend on the number of boosts received by the channel form its subscribers.
Apparently, only Telegram Premium users will be able to boost channels.
#stories
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Telegram Is Preparing to Bring Stories to Channels According to crawled data from @tgcrawl, changes were made in Telegram for Android that indicate that stories are coming for channels. From the changes we can guess that there will be a boosting system similar…
Updates to Web Bots, Stories for Channels and Channel Boosts
Telegram's Beta version for Android update hints at several upcoming features, as analyzed by the @tginfo team.
Channel stories and boosts
It seems that Telegram is working on a "boost" system for channels, reminiscent of Discord's. Boosts will allow channel subscribers to vote for their favorite channels. These boosts might unlock special features for administrators, such as the ability to post stories to the channel. The exact features and rewards based on this system are still unknown. There could be different levels with varying limits and functionalities, and the number of stories available for posting might depend on the number of boosts received.
It seems like only Telegram Premium subscribers will be able to boost, and as of now, it looks like Premium users will have only one boost in their subscription available at no extra cost. Telegram aims to introduce this feature to channel administrators in hopes that they will encourage their subscribers to give their boost to their channel. To facilitate quick access to the boost sending menu, a deep link will be provided. Users will be able to change which channel receives their boost only once a day.
Story enhancements
Users will be able to add background audio to stories.
An option to pin a story to a post will be introduced.
Improved login confirmation system
Instead of receiving login notifications via personal messages from the Telegram account, they will now appear above the chat list.
Statistics
Channel statistics will now include data about subscribers with a Telegram Premium subscription.
View photos or videos only once
A new self-destruct option will be added, which prevents media files from being viewed more than once.
Web bot platform update
App strings indicate that in the next update, Telegram will allow users to add shortcuts to launch Web bots from the Android app's side menu.
This feature might be available exclusively to select partner bots. It's highly probable that this shortcut feature was specifically designed for @Wallet, but it might be utilized for other partner bots in the future.
The Web bot platform itself has been renamed to Mini Apps, and using them will require users to accept separate terms of service.
Previously, an ability for Web-bots to store their data on Telegram servers was spotted in the app, with the data being synchronized across the user's devices. @tginfo speculates that this feature could've been developed for the recently announced non-custodial TON wallet. Testing suggests that the data storage feature in Telegram might also be exclusive to select partner bots.
It's important to note that all this information is based on speculations from the Beta version of the app, so the features might undergo some changes by the time of release.
#stories #boosts
Telegram's Beta version for Android update hints at several upcoming features, as analyzed by the @tginfo team.
Channel stories and boosts
It seems that Telegram is working on a "boost" system for channels, reminiscent of Discord's. Boosts will allow channel subscribers to vote for their favorite channels. These boosts might unlock special features for administrators, such as the ability to post stories to the channel. The exact features and rewards based on this system are still unknown. There could be different levels with varying limits and functionalities, and the number of stories available for posting might depend on the number of boosts received.
It seems like only Telegram Premium subscribers will be able to boost, and as of now, it looks like Premium users will have only one boost in their subscription available at no extra cost. Telegram aims to introduce this feature to channel administrators in hopes that they will encourage their subscribers to give their boost to their channel. To facilitate quick access to the boost sending menu, a deep link will be provided. Users will be able to change which channel receives their boost only once a day.
Story enhancements
Users will be able to add background audio to stories.
An option to pin a story to a post will be introduced.
Improved login confirmation system
Instead of receiving login notifications via personal messages from the Telegram account, they will now appear above the chat list.
Statistics
Channel statistics will now include data about subscribers with a Telegram Premium subscription.
View photos or videos only once
A new self-destruct option will be added, which prevents media files from being viewed more than once.
Web bot platform update
App strings indicate that in the next update, Telegram will allow users to add shortcuts to launch Web bots from the Android app's side menu.
This feature might be available exclusively to select partner bots. It's highly probable that this shortcut feature was specifically designed for @Wallet, but it might be utilized for other partner bots in the future.
The Web bot platform itself has been renamed to Mini Apps, and using them will require users to accept separate terms of service.
Previously, an ability for Web-bots to store their data on Telegram servers was spotted in the app, with the data being synchronized across the user's devices. @tginfo speculates that this feature could've been developed for the recently announced non-custodial TON wallet. Testing suggests that the data storage feature in Telegram might also be exclusive to select partner bots.
It's important to note that all this information is based on speculations from the Beta version of the app, so the features might undergo some changes by the time of release.
#stories #boosts