📝 All Telegram chatbots can now stream responses to users in real time — great for AI assistants.

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😀 DUROV'S TIKTOK ACCOUNT was blocked for an unknown reason and was unbanned a few hours later.

📰 Important for bot developers: Threaded mode, which can now be enabled for all bots and adds the effect of constantly typing messages, incurs a +15% fee for all star payments within the bot or bot mini-apps. This is specified in Section 6.2.6 of the TOS for bot developers.

By enabling topics in private chats for a TPA, developers acknowledge and agree that all subsequent Telegram Stars purchases carried out within that TPA shall be subject to a non-refundable fee of 15%, which will be automatically withheld by Telegram. This fee shall apply only for the duration that topics in private chats remain enabled for the TPA. For clarity, the fee shall cease to apply upon the developer disabling the feature, following a reasonable delay for technical processing and propagation by Telegram.

📰🇷🇺 The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation commented that advertising on Telegram and YouTube is prohibited, although these messengers and video hosting services are not recognized as "undesirable organizations", unlike the social media platform Meta.

Context:
✉️ The Federal Antimonopoly Service and Roskomnadzor opened a criminal case against Maria Loskutova for a single ad on Telegram. Both parties complied with advertising laws 100%, and the content's author is even registered as a blogger. Unfortunately, lawlessness has entered the chat, and these two parties face fines of 20,000 rubles and half a million rubles, respectively, for the distributor and advertiser, all because they placed ads on Durov's messenger. Loskutova's husband published screenshots of emails (1, 2) from delo2@fas.gov.ru (may be fake).

New #gift

🧸 50 ⭐️ Returned back.

📰 It turned out this was a mistake. Telegram still allows forwarding from iOS-blocked channels. This was #fixed promptly and immediately.

😀 The beta version of Telegram 12.6 for iOS adds the ability to move the list of topics down.

😀 Durov's net worth fell from $17.1 billion to $6.6 billion, according to Forbes. 👻 This decline stems from Telegram's competitor, Snapchat, losing $8.7 billion in capitulation last year, which directly impacted Telegram. Telegram's competitor's 2025 revenue is $6 billion, three times more than Telegram's.

💰 In June, Durov partially refinanced his debt by issuing new $1.7 billion bonds at a higher interest rate (9% instead of 7%), which the market perceived as a sign of diminished reliability. Analysts speculate that Durov may transfer some of his shares directly to major funds (such as BlackRock or Abu Dhabi) to pay off the debt, bypassing a public offering. A full IPO is not expected, noting that Telegram's valuation is significantly lower than the $30 billion Durov previously announced.

🤩 Telegram increased the limit of paid messages for stars from 10,000 → to 35,000 per unit. This applies both in personal messages, in groups and channel directs.

😀 All over the world, Telegram can #failures: chats, messages, media content and others are updated slowly.

UPD: Now the work is stable.

😀 #TDesktop has received a beta, but very good, update. Version 6.6.3 adds an improved graphics editor, including the ability to draw on other user's photos, and you can also trim a beginning and a end of voice messages before sending them.

👍 Equally important new features include a signature for each file before sending them, a ripple effect when sending reactions, and sound sharing in Linux calls. A bug related to restoring shuffled saved music has been fixed.

😀🇷🇺 Telegram is becoming increasingly unavailable in Russia every day. Although it's not officially restricted in the country, but has been confirmed to be slow, chats take a couple of minutes to load, as experts write for the publication "Kommenrsant", and "Updating…" and "Connecting…" statuses fluctuate. Messages won't send or download on home internet, and mobile data is a nonsense — sometimes only websites on the "white list" work.

In just a few days:
1. Telegram has been fined 5 million rubles by Moscow's Tagansky Court seven times per item of unremoved information, for a total of 35 million. The total fine is 185 million rubles.
2. The RuNet is experiencing a series of outages involving domestic services, a repeat of 2018. A domestic crash detector website once returned a 502 error.
3. Fighting scammers? Ha!, scammers have started offering citizens a "modified" Telegram app that will "work without interruption," providing an anonymous number and free premium. In reality, this is a classic scheme to block Apple devices, like iPhones, and demand a ransom. This scam has been around for a long time; previously, it was promised to install Ayugram on iPhones (it's not officially developed). In short, never log in with someone else's Apple ID.

New #gift 🎁

Price: 50 ⭐️

New gifts have been released on the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day.

New #NFT

🎁 500⭐️ — upgrade from 300k⭐️(!)

😀🇷🇺 Telegram's blocking in Russia is in its final stages — the rate of failed requests to t.me and telegram.org is reaching an average of 79% nationwide.

A significant spike in slowdowns occurred over the weekend (March 14-15). In the Central Federal District, blocking increased from 16.9% to 76.9% in a week, representing unsuccessful connections to Telegram.

According to a source close to this news source, «Each of these filtering nodes has its own capacity, and with the current number of filtering rules – approximately 2.5 million – not all nodes are equally successful.».