Telegram Alpha

🎆 A major Telegram update with 11 new features is out, just 4 weeks after the previous one. Among my favorite new features are Similar Channels and Story Reposts. Both give content creators new ways to grow their channels organically within Telegram. Check out all the features in the blog post: https://telegram.org/blog/similar-channels While our iOS users can already enjoy the new features, Android users are still waiting for the Google Play version to be reviewed by Google. If you use Android and don’t want to wait, you can download the direct version of Telegram. This version offers faster updates, fewer restrictions, and the lowest price for Telegram Premium subscriptions 🤫

🔤🔠🔤🔤❗️Update Telegram to the latest version to see how replies and link previews should work in 2023. Since we invented these formats several years ago, the industry must have been waiting for us to show them the next step. The wait is over! 👿 https://telegram.org/blog/reply-revolution Bonus: you can now rewind / fast forward Stories by holding and sliding sideways (I wonder why other apps that have had stories for years hadn’t done this before 🤌 — there must be some dark secret we’ll uncover soon 🔮). Bonus Bonus: our beloved Premium users (almost 3.5 million of them already) get to choose the color of their name and quotes in chats. Go orange this Halloween! ❤️

Replies 2.0, Adjustable Link Previews, Name Colors and More http://telegram.org/blog/reply-revolution

Given the above circumstance, I think it is a good time to share this article I wrote. I haven't updated it with the IPO news yet. If you have any suggestions or additional info to add, please use the comment box. https://golimitless.substack.com/p/telegram-premium-explained

Hundreds of thousands are signing up for Telegram from Israel and the Palestinian Territories. In addition to Arabic, we’ve just added support for Hebrew in the Telegram UI. Everyone affected should have reliable access to news and private communication in these dire times.

https://t.me/tlgrmalpha?boost lol 😂😅

The day has come. Telegram channels can now post Stories! Stories on Telegram are more visible than in most apps, because they are displayed right on the main screen. Obviously, we couldn’t let channels flood users with Stories without reasonable limits: this would create too much noise in your Chats. This is why we designed the Boost system. With Boosts, users can give their favorite channels the ability to post stories. More boosts mean more stories per day for a channel. Every 24 hours users can reassign their boost. In the future, boosts will also unlock other features for channels, such as custom reactions, emoji statuses or custom backgrounds. We’ll also introduce more ways for channels to get Boosts. To prevent abuse, only Premium users can boost channels. It shouldn’t be hard to collect Boosts for channels with real subscribers, while those with fake followers may struggle (larger channels need more Boosts to unlock stories). Let the Boost Hunt begin! 🏹

Years ago, we built TON – a scalable and fast blockchain technology. TON was designed to serve hundreds of millions of social media users. Since 2020, the TON technology has been maintained and improved by the open source community. Last year, we enabled our users to buy and sell Telegram usernames and IDs on Fragment – a TON-based auction platform. It was a phenomenal success. Telegram sold $120M worth of digital assets in auctions, while early buyers of some Telegram-related digital assets – such as Telegram anonymous numbers – have seen a 27x (!) increase in value after only 9 months. This success showed the potential of Web 3.0 on Telegram. For the first time in history, users were allowed to own their social media identities directly. Now we want to integrate blockchain technologies deeper into Telegram. To do that, we worked with the folks from the TON community to add their TON Wallet to Telegram as a mini-app. Starting this November, TON Wallet will be included in the settings and attachment menus for all our users outside the US and some other countries (if you added @wallet and have the latest version of Telegram, you can already see the wallet option in the menus). This step will allow developers to enable hundreds of new valuable features – similar to those pioneered on Fragment. TON Wallet, a third-party mini-app inside Telegram, will introduce a whole new dimension of Web 3.0 to hundreds of millions of Telegram users.

Telegram adds a new payment method for the purchase of Telegram Premium subscription in India. Telegram has added, a few days ago, a new payment method for users in India. Now Indian residents can pay for the Telegram Premium subscription via UPI (Unified Payments Interface). UPI is the most simplest payment method in India as it facilitates single tap payments which makes it easier for users to pay sans the hassle of cards. The payment will be processed via Paytm Payment Gateway to Smart Glocal (Telegram's payment partner). Users paying via UPI will have a mandate created against their payment method to facilitate auto-renewal which can be cancelled anytime via the payment app or @PremiumBot. Note: this option is available only to users in India who opt to pay via @PremiumBot. Btw, this channel is active again. ℹ️@tlgrmalpha

Last week we launched a feature that adds an entire new dimension to Telegram. It allows users to share entire collections of chats, or chat folders. These folders can contain anything – work groups, communities or even curated news feeds. The possibilities are endless. The organizer of the folder can set up different access levels, selecting which of the invitees will see which chats. Those who accept that invite can select which specific chats they want to be visible in the folder or in their Main Chat list. One can even have the same chat included in multiple different chats folders at once. With Chat Folders, the power to organize chat lists is in the hands of each user. Thanks to their unique democratic structure and flexibility, Chat Folders can reshape how Telegram works. And, since most of our innovations are later picked up by the rest of the industry, this feature can eventually redefine how humans communicate.

Profile Photo Maker, Emoji Categories, Translating Entire Chats, and More https://telegram.org/blog/profile-pics-emoji-translations