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🪙 Custom Intros

An upcoming update to the Telegram for Business feature set will include the ability to customize an intro for yourself.

Based on a video from the messenger team, business accounts will be able to edit the look of the greeting message screen that is shown in an empty chat with a user. Currently, by default, this space shows a prompt to send a greeting sticker to the other user.

#business

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Supreme Court of Spain Suspends Order to Block Telegram

Today, the Supreme Court of Spain suspended its order to block Telegram in the country as it awaits a police report on the impact of the temporary ban on users.

Judge Santiago Pedraz instructed the national police to prepare a report on "the characteristics of Telegram, as well as the impact of the temporary suspension on its users."

As a reminder, the order to block Telegram in Spain was issued on Friday, March 22.

#courts #bans #Spain


Spain Blocks Telegram Over Distribution of Pirated Content by Users

A Spanish judge has ordered the temporary blocking of the popular messaging app Telegram in response to a lawsuit filed by several local media companies, including EGEDA, Mediaset España, A3 Media, and Movistar Plus. The decision, made by Judge Santiago Pedras of the National Court of Spain, comes as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations that Telegram users have been distributing pirated content.

The court had requested that Telegram provide technical data to help identify the owners of accounts allegedly used to infringe upon intellectual property rights. However, the messaging app failed to comply with this request, leading to the temporary blocking order and a six-month extension of the investigation.

According to the court ruling, the blocking must be implemented within three hours of receiving the official court notice. The order encompasses not only the Telegram apps, but also the Telegram.org website and the web version of the platform.

Telegram has a significant user base in Spain, with a recent survey by the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) indicating that approximately 8.5 million users rely on the messaging app, meaning this ban will affect a vast amount of people that use Telegram as an essential tool for communication on a day to day basis.

For more information about Telegram in Spainish, view @tginfoesp.

Chat for Spain: @tginfochates.

#bans #courts #Spain


DC2 Media Downloading Issues

Our users are reporting that DC2 is currently experiencing issues related with downloading media, whereas the download speed has dropped significantly due to issues on the server.

Updated 03/23/2024 09:54 UTC
On March 23th DC2 works properly.

#outages


Detailed Statistics On Revenue From Telegram Ads

In the source code of Telegram for macOS, lines of code were noticed that will supposedly be used on the channel's info page for tracking income from Telegram Ads.

Based on the source code, the user can:

• View their advertising revenue statistics in TON cryptocurrency or in the US dollar equivalent.
• Check the current balance of TON available for withdrawal and its equivalent in US dollars.
• View a list of transactions reflecting advertising earnings and money transfers to a crypto wallet, indicating the time and amount.
• Enter the address of their TON wallet and withdraw some or all of the available funds to the wallet.

#aboutAds


New Telegram Bond Issued for $330 Million

Pavel Durov announced that last week Telegram had issued bonds worth $330 million to accelerate the development of the messenger. The applications for bonds placement were oversubscribed, and on top of this, the majority of the buyers consisted of high-tier, high priced funds.

Telegram has previously issued bonds on:

March 2021: The first bond placement for $1 billion.
April 2021: Bonds placed for an additional $750 million.
July 2023: Bonds were issued for $270 million, about a quarter of which were purchased by Durov himself.

#bonds


Telegram Desktop has been updated to version 4.15.2

What's new:
• Opening hours 00:00 – 23:59 are now shown as “open 24 hours”.
• Reimplemented fast scrolling of the chat list when holding down the Ctrl or Shift key.
• The color of the “Enable notifications” menu item in their exception settings has been replaced with standard green.
• Fixed saving of empty working hours.
• Fixed display of dates in Recent Actions.
• Fixed account selection for automatic login to Telegram sites.
• Fixed a crash when trying to set an emoji status in the application settings window.

Download: from the official website or from GitHub.

#update #desktop

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Disruptions in Telegram's Services

Users are reporting that there are disruptions within operating and using Telegram. In particular, issues are being experienced with the global search function, sending messages, loading chats, and interacting with bots. This post will be updated as more details become available.

UPD: This was already fixed.

UPD 17:02 UTC: Some users are still experiencing connection issues.

#outages

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Pavel Durov revealed that Telegram was valued at $30 billion ahead of a potential IPO

In an interview, Durov clarified that the $30 billion valuation was made by global technology funds, among others. At the same time, the Financial Times noted that he ruled out selling Telegram. The messaging app's audience has grown to 900 million monthly active users. Each Telegram user costs the app $0.7 per year. Annually, around €630 million is required to maintain the service.

"Overall, we see value in an IPO as a means of democratizing access to Telegram's value," - Pavel Durov


Meanwhile, TON is currently reacting with a 15% increase in its value.

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Biometrics in Mini Apps

A function named BiometricManager has been discovered in the source code of Telegram Mini Apps tools.

Presumably, this function will allow mini apps to request verification from the messenger to confirm your identity as the device owner. This will enable services to enhance the protection of your data or assets.

The @tginfo editorial team believes that mini apps will not receive any data related to biometrics. The tool will be able to process a response from the Telegram client, which has methods for biometric confirmation.

#BotAPI

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Telegram Desktop Has Been Updated to Version 4.15.1

Here's what's new:

• Support for Telegram Business features have been added.
• Shared contacts in chats now have a new style.
• Link previews are now generated for links inside quote blocks.
• Privacy settings that require Telegram Premium now have icons to indicate this.
• When adding a new admin, they will now have admin rights to view chat history by default.
• Support for AVIF, HEIF, and JPEG XL formats has been added for the macOS version of the app.
• Built-in markup is now supported when exporting chats to HTML for replies.
• A character limit counter has been added when editing messages without media.
• An issue with editing long media captions containing emoji has been fixed.
• An issue causing the text about vote counts to be deleted in polls with reactions has been resolved.
• The character limit counter for the bio input field has been fixed.
• An error that occurred when sending .tgs files as stickers has been corrected.

Download: from official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop

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Telegram's Co-Operation with Malaysia

On Saturday, March 2, Malaysia's Minister of Communications held a personal meeting with Pavel Durov in Dubai. The news was brought to attention by Durov's Code.

The main topics of the meeting were platform regulation and the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence. Durov expressed interest in further discussions about opportunities for cooperation with the Malaysian government to optimize the regulatory aspects of the platform and promised to expand Telegram's activities in the country.

Pavel Durov also stated their platform's readiness to collaborate with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to improve regulation and join forces in combating fraud and gambling.

Last May, Malaysia's Minister of Communications reported that Telegram "did not want to cooperate" with the ministry, despite numerous requests for a meeting.

Statistics for 2022 indicate that Malaysia has 32 million Internet users, of which 28 million are social media users. Telegram is used by 56% of Internet users in the country, providing a rough estimate of between 15-18 million users in Malaysia.

#Malaysia


Pavel Durov speaks on the reliability and innovation of Telegram in comparison to other platforms

Pavel Durov has made confident remarks upon the outage of Facebook and Instagram, where he states Telegram has "1000x fewer full-time employees than Meta" and that "Millions of people have been signing up and sharing content on Telegram in the last hour" highlighting Telegram's surge in growth due to service outages of other platforms.

He states that Telegram "managed to launch new features and innovate faster." and has additionally "spent several times less on infrastructure per user.", implying Durov's strong belief that Telegram is at forefront of innovation in the messaging market globally, whilst still maintaining their strong monetization strategy. He also states that Telegram has only been down for around 9 minutes for the entirety of 2023. It is assumed this statistic is based on a scenario where all of Telegram's Datacenters experience an outage simultaneously, at one given time.


🏪 Telegram Business Features

In the upcoming Telegram update, users with a Premium subscription will gain access to a set of business oriented features.

Users will be able to specify the location and opening hours of their business, prepare welcome messages, messages to be sent automatically to clients while you are away, and use quick replies.

Read more about new business features in our Beta Info channel.

#premium


Telegram Will Only Share Its Ad Revenue in Countries Where Ad Platform Is Newly Introduced

Yesterday, Pavel Durov announced that starting from March of this year, Telegram will share half of its native ads revenue with channel owners. According to the "Durov's Code" channel, citing one of Telegram's advertising partners, payouts will only be made in countries that are new to advertising. For example, Russia is not among them, as the advertising platform in the Russian market was launched earlier.

In the new countries, Telegram will sell ads and reward channel owners only in TON cryptocurrency.

In regions where advertising has been running for a long time, the previous methods of payment for sponsored posts will remain.

Whether the reward system will ever be extended to countries where the advertising platform has already been launched is not reported.

#AboutAds

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Option to Set Colors for Folder Tags in Chat List

The Telegram translation platform has new lines mentioning customization of chat folder colors.

It is assumed that in the chat list, the names of all folders to which chats are added will be displayed. For the name of each folder, you can choose a separate color.

The lines also indicate that the new feature will be available only to Telegram Premium subscribers. This option can be enabled in the settings.

#premium

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Ad Income Sharing for Telegram channel owners

Pavel Durov announced that in March Telegram channel owners can start getting paid their work:

Broadcast channels on Telegram generate 1 trillion views monthly. Currently, only 10% of these views are monetized with Telegram Ads — a promotion tool designed with privacy in mind.

In March, the Telegram Ad Platform will officially open to all advertisers in nearly a hundred new countries. Channel owners in these countries will start receiving 50% of any revenue that Telegram makes from displaying ads in their channels.

To ensure ad payments and withdrawals are fast and secure, we will exclusively use the TON blockchain. Similar to our approach with Telegram usernames on Fragment, we will sell ads and share revenue with channel owners in Toncoin. This will create a virtuous circle, in which content creators will be able to either cash out their Toncoins — or reinvest them in promoting and upgrading their channels.


Back in 2021 Telegram announced its plans to share ad income with channel creators when the messenger will be able to cover its main expences.

#AboutAds


Get Premium for Helping Telegram Send SMS Codes

Telegram has launched a program which allows users to get Premium for sending SMS messages with OTP codes to other users. A user from Indonesia shared screenshots of the feature with @tginfo.

Terms of Service have appeared for the new program, which is called “Peer-to-Peer Login Program”.

On the page Telegram informs that only users from some countries can participate. Telegram will be using user’s phone to send no more than 150 SMS codes monthly, at the user’s expense. When the user reaches the minimum quota, they will be rewarded with a transferable gift code that grants access to a monthly Telegram Premium subscription. The messenger won't compensate carrier rates and fees for sending the messages.

Telegram warns that theoretically program participants can see phone numbers of the users who receive the OTP codes. The same way, receivers will know the codes are sent from other Telegram users.

@tginfo confirmed existence of the feature in Telegram for Android 10.8.1 (4404) code. The Terms of Service point out that the program is only available to Android users.

We speculate that the program will be used in countries which have high SMS fees, like Indonesia.

#P2PL #Premium

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What to do when my phone number gets banned on Telegram?

Telegram users can often encounter account bans. Sometimes, the ban can happen unexpectedly for the user: all sessions are terminated, and upon trying to log into the account, the app informs the user that the phone number is banned.

We explain what can be done in such a situation in this article: https://tginfo.me/phone-number-is-banned-en/

#FAQ


Telegram’s DC2 Is Unstable

Around 11:30 UTC, users experienced connection issues, as well as issues with sending and receiving messages.

UPD 11:44 UTC: DC2 is partially back

#outages

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