Sat 22 July 2023:
Telegram, an encrypted messaging service, announced the launch of a new Story feature on its platform on Friday.
With the new feature, the app’s premium users will be able to upload stories that anyone, even free users, would be able to see.
The most recent version of Telegram for Android, iOS, and desktop now includes the Story feature.
The new feature will appear at the top of the screen, right above the global chat search, which will allow users to share photos, videos, and text that disappear after 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours, or can be set to remain permanently on the user’s profile.
Users can select who can see the story individually.
Moreover, premium users can add more features to their stories, such as animated stickers, polls, and quizzes, allowing premium users to create more engaging and interactive stories.
Meanwhile, Telegram has raised $210 million from several investors via bond sales.
The investors include its founder and CEO Pavel Durov.
John Hyman, Telegram Chief Investment Adviser, told TechCrunch that the platform raised the capital by issuing bonds worth $270 million because “interest rates have gone up significantly since 2021, the bonds have a different issue price”.
New Telegram Updates and Features
Chat folders can now be shared with a link – inviting your friends or colleagues to dozens of work groups, collections of news channels, and more. With one tap, they will add the folder and instantly join all its chats.
Each chat folder supports multiple invite links allowing access to different chats. When creating a link, select the chats you’d like to include – and give it a unique name to match, like Interns or Managers.
You can include any public chats, as well as any chats where you have the admin rights to add people.
If you add more chats to your folder and update its link, members will see a suggestion to join the new chats.
Custom Wallpapers
Your favorite photos and color combinations can become custom wallpapers in specific chats to give conversations extra personality and make them stand out.
After setting a wallpaper, a special message will be sent in the chat that allows your chat partner to add the same wallpaper on their side – or they can create their own.
Fast Scrolling for Attachments
The attachment menu now scrolls at super-fast speeds, just like Shared Media. Pull down on the date bar to time travel.
Read Time in Topics
In groups of under 100 members with topics enabled, read receipts now show what time your messages were read by other group members.
Improved Interfaces
Send When Online requires fewer taps – in chats where you can see your partner’s last seen time, hold the Send button.
You can create groups without adding members immediately – in case you want to set up permissions and pin a few messages first.
On the latest iPhones, profile pictures have a new animation – smoothly sliding into the dynamic island when you scroll on profiles and info pages.
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