5943
@KeralaGram Official Channel : TeleGram News, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, etc.. And More Programs on the way.. StayTuned
🏆 Telegram now has significantly over 1 billion monthly active users, becoming the second most popular messaging app in the world (excluding the China-specific WeChat) 🥈
🔼User engagement is also rising. On average, each user opens Telegram 21 times daily and spends 41 minutes on the app every day. Meanwhile, our revenue growth has exploded, with $547M in profit in 2024 💵
😺 Ahead of us stands WhatsApp — a cheap, watered-down imitation of Telegram. For years, they’ve desperately tried to copy our innovations while burning billions on lobbying and PR campaigns to slow us down. They failed. Telegram grew, became profitable, and — unlike our competitor — retained its independence 🗽
✉️ We are just getting started 😏
Collectible Gifts, Message Search Filters and More
Today we're releasing the first update of 2025, which includes collectible gifts that can be transferred or re-sent to other users, the ability to send reactions to in-chat events, filters for message search, an in-app QR code scanner and so much more.
JAN,2025
Affiliate Programs, AI-Powered Sticker Search, Collages, and More..
Today, Telegram bringing exciting news for content creators and mini app developers on Telegram. Creators now have a simple way to monetize their efforts (and earn Stars!), while mini app developers gain a powerful tool to attract new users. In addition, Telegram users can now find stickers with AI and create collages with photos and videos in their stories.
DEC,2024
Bot API 7.11
• Bots can now participate in revenue sharing from Telegram Ads ⭐️ – unlocking a new way to help support their development.
• Introduced Paid Broadcasts ⭐️ – allowing bots to broadcast up to 1000 messages per second.
• Bots can now send and receive chat-specific hashtags that only show posts and stories from a specific chat when tapped.
• Added a new inline button to let users copy text in one tap.
• Bots can now add media to existing text messages.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#october-31-2024
⚠️ Warning: Starting December 1, 2024 messages with video posted in big communities can be delayed by the server until the respective video is reencoded. Read more here.
Improved Videos and Much More..
Today's update adds faster loading, better quality and new speed controls to videos, last edit timestamps, attaching media to sent messages, increased limits for mini apps, new monetization options for developers – and much more.
OCT,2024
🎉 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.
Telegram Browser, Mini App Store, Gifting Stars and More..
Today's update brings a new in-app browser that supports multiple tabs and makes Web3 available to almost a billion users, a Mini App Store, a new kind of mini apps, the ability to gift Stars to friends — and much more.
JULY,2024
Mini App Bar, Paid Media, Story Search & More..
Telegram June update adds a way to minimize mini apps into a compact bar, helps content creators monetize their channels with paid photos and videos, and improves Stories by introducing search by hashtag or location and a new link widget.
JUNE,2024
Introducing Payments for Digital Goods and Services
With the upcoming Telegram update, your bots and mini apps will be able to sell digital goods and services.
To allow for this change in compliance with third-party store terms, we are rolling out a new in-app currency, Telegram Stars. Users will soon be able to acquire Stars from Telegram using standard Apple and Google in-app purchases and then use them to buy digital goods and services from you.
All payments for digital goods and services have to be carried out exclusively in Telegram Stars. If digital goods and services can be purchased for your bot or mini app on other platforms, like your external website, the same goods and services must also be available for purchase with Telegram Stars, in compliance with Apple Review Guideline 3.1.3(b).
To accept payments for digital goods and services, starting with Bot API 7.4, you can use the sendInvoice or createInvoiceLink methods with the currency field set to "XTR" and the provider_token field left empty. To refund payments, you can use the refundStarPayment method.
💎 Developers will be able to withdraw Telegram Stars using the TON blockchain.
⚠️ Payments for physical goods and services are unaffected by this change and can continue operating as usual.
Along with these changes, Bot API 7.4 adds even more improvements for all bots, like:
• Support for visual effects, which bots can attach to messages via the new message_effect_id parameter.
• Support for expandable blockquote text entities.
• Captions that can be shown above the respective media via the new show_caption_above_media parameter.
• And more, see the full changelog for details.
My Profile, Recommended Channels and 15 More Features
This month Telegram added more than 15 new features, including recommended channels, a way to view your own profile and display your channel and birthday on your page, improved moderation tools for group admins – and much more.
APRIL,2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w
Читать полностью…
🎨 Telegram newest update lets you make your own stickers right here on Telegram — no additional image-editing software needed. Just go to the recent stickers panel and select “+”.
Creating sticker packs has never been so easy. The sticker platform has existed on Telegram since 2015, but it has now been truly democratized.
There are 16 other new features we are shipping this month, and most of them are already included in the latest version of Telegram. But I’ll tell about them later — for now, I’ll let you focus on sticker creation 🎨 - Pavel Durov
Introducing Telegram Business
🌐 Blog : http://telegram.org/blog/telegram-business
📆 MAR,2024
#Telegram #Stable #Update #MAR2024
ℹ️ @KeralagramChannel
Sharing Revenue with Channel Owners
🌐 Blog : http://telegram.org/blog/monetization-for-channels
📆 MAR,2024
#Telegram #Stable #Update #MAR2024
ℹ️ @KeralagramChannel
How To Deploy A Telegram Bot For Free!!
https://youtu.be/IlEBJZAf3M8
Collectible Gifts, Message Search Filters and More
Today we're releasing the first update of 2025, which includes collectible gifts that can be transferred or re-sent to other users, the ability to send reactions to in-chat events, filters for message search, an in-app QR code scanner and so much more.
JAN,2025
Affiliate Programs, AI-Powered Sticker Search, Collages, and More..
Today, Telegram bringing exciting news for content creators and mini app developers on Telegram. Creators now have a simple way to monetize their efforts (and earn Stars!), while mini app developers gain a powerful tool to attract new users. In addition, Telegram users can now find stickers with AI and create collages with photos and videos in their stories.
DEC,2024
Improved Videos and Much More..
Today's update adds faster loading, better quality and new speed controls to videos, last edit timestamps, attaching media to sent messages, increased limits for mini apps, new monetization options for developers – and much more.
OCT,2024
Bot API 7.10
• Introduced support for Telegram Star Giveaways ⭐️.
• Bots now receive updates when users purchase paid media.
• Mini Apps can now display and control a secondary button at the bottom of their interface.
• The bottom bar color of Mini Apps can now be customized.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#september-6-2024
❤️ 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 🙏
Telegram Browser, Mini App Store, Gifting Stars and More..
Today's update brings a new in-app browser that supports multiple tabs and makes Web3 available to almost a billion users, a Mini App Store, a new kind of mini apps, the ability to gift Stars to friends — and much more.
JULY,2024
Star Reward Withdrawals, Subsidized Ads and Bot API 7.6
Developers of bots accepting Telegram Stars ⭐️ can now withdraw rewards via the TON blockchain, or use stars to place subsidized Ads on Telegram.
Telegram takes nearly 0% commission and adds a 30% discount for ads to compensate for third-party payment system fees – you can read more here.
Bot API 7.6, released today, adds even more improvements for all bots and mini apps, like:
• Native multitasking – allowing mini apps to be minimized and expanded without loading delays.
• Default full-screen mode for mini apps opened by direct link.
• Support for sending paid media content on behalf of content creators.
• Updated transaction history, with support for Telegram Ads and bot-specified payloads.
• And more, see the full changelog for details.
Mini App Bar, Paid Media, Story Search & More..
Telegram June update adds a way to minimize mini apps into a compact bar, helps content creators monetize their channels with paid photos and videos, and improves Stories by introducing search by hashtag or location and a new link widget.
JUNE,2024
Telegram X was updated to version 0.26.8.1717
– Read Time in Private Chats
– Edit and Replace media messages
– Crop and mirror videos
– Draw over received photos
– Faster video streaming
– Reworked video compression
– Add captions to files before sending them
– Correct rendering of RTL (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) and mixed-direction messages
– Set and view others Date of Birth
– Similar channels
– Resolved notification issues for recently registered accounts
– Manage collectible usernames
– Eliminated over 35 bugs and 15 crashes
– Over 40 additional improvements
– Many other changes
Read more:
https://telegra.ph/Telegram-X-05-10
My Profile, Recommended Channels and 15 More Features
This month Telegram added more than 15 new features, including recommended channels, a way to view your own profile and display your channel and birthday on your page, improved moderation tools for group admins – and much more.
APRIL,2024
JUST IN: Telegram founder Pavel Durov sat down with Tucker for his first on-camera interview since 2016. In this clip, Durov talks about the pressure tactics the US government has used against him, including sending FBI agents to his home. Watch the full interview at TuckerCarlson.com.
Читать полностью…
9️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Telegram reached 900 million monthly users.
Half of these 900 millions users open Telegram daily. According to DataAI, Telegram is the 🚩th most used and 🚩th most downloaded app in the world.
What’s more — Telegram was cash flow positive in the 1st quarter of 2024 and is on track to become profitable this year. This solidifies our position as an independent company that puts its users first.
When we started developing Telegram 12 years ago, we believed that people are inherently smart. And smart people will always choose the freedom and quality of Telegram over the restrictions and mediocrity of legacy apps. It seems we were right.
We’ve always believed in you. Thank you for believing in us too🙏
Introducing Telegram Business
Starting today, anyone can turn their Telegram account into a business account – and get access to business features, such as opening hours, location, quick replies, automated messages, custom start page, chatbot support, and more.
MAR,2024
Sharing Revenue with Channel Owners
Today, we're introducing one of the most generous reward systems in the history of social media. Telegram channel owners can now receive 50% of the revenue from ads displayed in their channels.
MAR,2024