Pavel Durov Unofficial

2022-12-09 03:02:44 It has been a year since Telegram started its monetization, but the results have already exceeded our expectations.

Unlike other apps, we took a privacy-conscious approach to ads: we decided that no personal data should be used for targeting and that promoted messages should only be shown in public one-to-many channels. Despite that, our ads have significantly outperformed the market and put Telegram on a steady path towards financial sustainability.

Telegram Premium, which we introduced just 5 months ago, quickly surpassed 1 million subscribers and has become one of the most successful examples of a social media subscription plan ever launched. While it still represents just a fraction of Telegram’s overall revenue, Telegram Premium is growing steadily every day, and one day may even rival our ads.

The future looks exciting. The additional monetization strategies I discussed in my previous posts are already bearing fruit, and the features we are working on now will set the foundation for further financial growth for Telegram in 2023.

Thanks to successful monetization, Telegram will be able to pay for the servers, traffic and wages necessary to keep building new features and supporting existing ones. While some other apps consider their users a tool to maximize revenue, we consider revenue a tool to maximize value for our users. Open / Comment

2022-11-07 11:31:06 9.1.2 (2902)
Directly downloadable from telegram.org/android Open / Comment

2022-11-07 11:30:12 New Update:

Topics in Groups:
Topics function as individual chats within the group – supporting their own shared media and notification settings. Members are free to chat in any topic from Anime to Zoology, using all their favorite features like polls, pinned messages and bots.

Collectible Usernames:
Collectible usernames are like @usernames, they appear in Global Search results and can be used outside of Telegram, can be less than 5 characters long, and their ownership is secured by TON.

✮Voice-to-Text for Video Messages:
Premium users now are able to get an instant text transcript (convert any video message to text)

✮New Emoji Packs:
Telegram artists have completed 12 new emoji packs and Premium users can use these emoji in any messages and captions – or set them as statuses for Halloween.

Redesigned Night Mode for iOS:
Dark themes have been updated for users on iOS.

Resizing Text on Android:
Changing your text size in Chat Settings on Android now increases the size of all chat text – including link previews, reply headers and more.

Minor Design Improvements

A new animation has been added when you swipe left to reply. Tapping a user's phone number in their profile page will open a new menu with several call options. And you'll see new pulsing placeholders while waiting for loading in Groups/ Channels.

New Interactive Emoji and Reactions:
This update brings 4 new interactive emoji   that play full-screen effects in 1-on-1 chats and can also be used as reactions. Additionally, all users can celebrate the spooky season with 3 more reactions  in any chat.


#Update

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2022-10-31 19:30:49 Do you dare to stay one night in Lord D's beautiful lovely house?

Happy Halloween everyone!


( The Phantom of the Opera / Prague Cello Quartet)

#fun #Halloween Open / Comment

2022-10-31 19:19:17 We prepared some Halloween surprises for you, but it seems someone doesn’t want us to celebrate. Telegram's latest update has been stuck in Apple Review for more than a week, and we have not been informed about the current reason for the delay

Apple claims they review apps within 24 hours, but, in our experience, it takes at least 7-10 days for any meaningful product update to reach the App Store. My friends who run smaller apps tell me it's even worse for them, as they have to wait more than a month just to ship bug fixes to their Apple users

However, positive change is coming. Tomorrow, a new set of laws called the Digital Markets Act will come into force in the European Union. This regulation should put an end to the abuse of market power by gatekeepers like Apple and Google.

We, the developers, should start relying on the DMA to defend ourselves and our users. If you are an app developer who faces issues with the App Store or Google Play, let me know about it at pavel@telegram.org from your company e-mail address with the word "DMA" in the title. It will be up to Apple to decide if they want to spend their resources on improving their processes — or on fines.

Happy Halloween!
Time to fight some demons Open / Comment

2022-10-29 07:42:15 Some content creators started using third-party payment bots to sell access to individual posts in their Telegram channels. This way, content creators could receive close to 100% of whatever their subscribers paid, which was great.

Unfortunately, we received word from Apple that they were not happy with content creators monetizing their efforts without paying a 30% tax to Apple. Since Apple has complete control over its ecosystem, we had no alternative but to disable such paid posts on iOS devices.

This is just another example of how a trillion-dollar monopoly abuses its market dominance at the expense of millions of users who are trying to monetize their own content. I hope that the regulators in the EU, India and elsewhere start taking action before Apple destroys more dreams and crushes more entrepreneurs with a tax that is higher than any government-levied VAT.

In the meantime, we at Telegram shall work to offer creators powerful and easy-to-use tools to monetize their content – outside of Apple's restrictive ecosystem. Open / Comment

2022-10-28 06:15:37 As promised, we've launched the ability to buy Telegram usernames on a dedicated platform – Fragment. Auctions for the most valuable usernames are already live, so make sure to check it out. In a few days, we will also introduce the ability for users to sell their existing usernames on Fragment.

For the first time in the history of social media, a fair, transparent market for usernames is established. Finally people will have ownership over their social media addresses, secured in the immutable ledger of a decentralized blockchain network.

This is just the beginning, and yet an important milestone – the power has started to shift into users' hands. Open / Comment

2022-10-11 03:12:12 Thanks for the birthday wishes. However, I decided to cancel turning 38 due to the uneasy times in the world

So I am


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2022-10-10 11:05:15 Not all heroes wear capes!

Happy birthday to the real hero who has his miraculous powers from his magnificent generous soul, incredible kind heart and marvelous brilliant mind
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2022-10-07 04:42:24 Be careful about scammers using Telegram's name asking for your personal informations like identity, real name, bank account, etc.
All of official Telegram accounts, like service notification, supports, etc. are verified and their phone numbers starts with +42. And they never ask you for your personal info.
If you see such accounts, report them immediately to abuse@telegram.org Open / Comment