Just About Telegram: only official news from Telegram, Telegram Web and MacApp Team

🔎 Search on Telegram is more powerful than in other messaging apps because it allows users to find public channels and bots. Unfortunately, this feature has been abused by people who violated our Terms of Service to sell illegal goods.

💪 Over the last few weeks, a dedicated team of moderators, leveraging AI, has made Telegram Search much safer. All the problematic content we identified in Search is no longer accessible. If you still manage to find something unsafe or illegal in Telegram Search, please report it to us via @SearchReport.

🚫 To further deter criminals from abusing Telegram Search, we have updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, ensuring they are consistent across the world. We’ve made it clear that the IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate our rules can be disclosed to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.

☝️ These measures should discourage criminals. Telegram Search is meant for finding friends and discovering news, not for promoting illegal goods. We won't let bad actors jeopardize the integrity of our platform for almost a billion users.

Any site you open in the Telegram Browser can be converted to Instant View – optimizing articles into a lightweight layout.

To convert a page, open the browser settings and select 'Instant View' or 'Show Instant View'. #TelegramTips

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Giveaways in groups and channels support Telegram Stars – which winners can spend on paid media, subscriptions and mini apps.

Communities that host giveaways receive boosts in return, allowing them to unlock perks like posting stories. #TelegramTips

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Channel owners can make their feed look more like a group – letting admins post as their own profiles or other channels.

This allows multiple authors to personalize their posts – or combine communities from several content creators. #TelegramTips

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Over 10 million users now subscribe to Telegram Premium – a 2x increase in less than a year.

Premium subscribers support Telegram's sustainable monetization – while unlocking powerful features.

More information is available here: t.me/premium/144

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Instant View for Telegram Browser. Any site you open in the Telegram Browser can be converted to Instant View – optimizing articles into a lightweight layout.

To convert a page, open the browser settings ➕➕ and select 'Instant View' or 'Show Instant View'.

Star Giveaways. Giveaways in groups and channels support Telegram Stars – which winners can spend on paid media, subscriptions and mini apps.

Communities that host giveaways receive boosts in return, allowing them to unlock perks like posting stories.

Channel owners can start a giveaway via Channel Settings > Statistics > Boosts. For groups, go to Group Info > Statistics > Boosts.

The latest Telegram update includes giveaways with Telegram Stars, the ability to convert any article to Instant View in the Telegram Browser and much more. telegram.org/blog/star-givea…

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For the full details from this week's update, including 10 million Premium subscribers and dozens of bug fixes, check out our latest blog:

https://telegram.org/blog/star-giveaways-iv-in-browser

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Mini App Improvements. Mini apps received several improvements, making them smoother and more responsive.

Developers can now display two buttons at a time in their app, in multiple orientations or with a shimmer effect.

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Instant View for Telegram Browser. Any site you open in the Telegram Browser can be converted to Instant View – optimizing articles into a lightweight layout.

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Star Giveaways. Giveaways in groups and channels now support Telegram Stars – which winners can spend on paid media, subscriptions and mini apps.

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More than 10 million users are now subscribed to Telegram Premium.

We thank all of our Premium subscribers for their continued support — which allows Telegram to continue creating powerful features that change how nearly one billion people communicate.

Tap below to get your own subscription or send a gift to family and friends.

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🎉 Telegram has reached 10 million paid subscribers. 10 million people are now enjoying Telegram Premium!

🆕 Today, we’re introducing new features while phasing out a few outdated ones.

⛔️ We’ve removed the People Nearby feature, which was used by less than 0.1% of Telegram users, but had issues with bots and scammers.

🛍 In its place, we will be launching “Businesses Nearby”, showcasing legitimate, verified businesses. These businesses will be able to display product catalogs and accept payments seamlessly.

✂️ We’ve also disabled new media uploads to Telegraph, our standalone blogging tool, which seems to have been misused by anonymous actors.

☝️ While 99.999% of Telegram users have nothing to do with crime, the 0.001% involved in illicit activities create a bad image for the entire platform, putting the interests of our almost billion users at risk.

✊ That’s why this year we are committed to turn moderation on Telegram from an area of criticism into one of praise.

❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.

This was surprising for several reasons: 

1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”. 

2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.

3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. 

Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.

Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.

All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.

However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. 

I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏

🌟 Link Widget in Stories

Premium users can highlight a link in their story by adding it to a stylish widget – with multiple layouts and color options.

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🌟 Animated Emoji in Polls

Premium users can include animated emoji and emoji from their custom sets in polls.

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Bots are able to send paid media – to support their services and automate businesses.

Unlocking a post with Stars gives you lifetime access to its content via Settings > My Stars. #TelegramTips

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Content creators can share special invite links that allow users to join a channel for a monthly payment in Telegram Stars.

This lets content creators make exclusive channels with extra content or special perks. #TelegramTips

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Users can directly support their favorite channels by sending them Telegram Stars with a ⭐️ Star reaction.

You can tap the ⭐️ icon repeatedly to increase the number of Stars – or hold down to set a specific amount. #TelegramTips

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