Telegram is in luck because, according to what they say, they have more than 900 million active users per monththus approaching the magic figure of one billion users.
To celebrate Telegram has announced more than 15 new features that have arrived in the application throughout different updates throughout the month, such as the fact that we can include our birthday in our profile, various news for channels and exclusive benefits for Premium subscribers.
Birthday
Telegram now wants to be Facebook, leaving us add our birthday to our profile and make it visible to our contacts. When it’s the day, whoever visits our profile will see an animation of confetti and balloons.
Telegram It will let us know when your friends’ birthday is and it will give us the option to give you Telegram Premium. Unless we indicate otherwise, our date of birth will be visible to our contacts, although we can change it in the privacy settings.
Channel news
- Recommended channels: The new Channels in Search tab shows the channels you follow and includes a list of recommended channels with similar topics.
- Channels and collectibles on your profile: If you have a channel, you can add it to your profile page, which will include a detailed view of the latest post above your timeline. Likewise, those with a collectible username can link them to their Telegram accounts or channels and display them as extra names on their profile page.
- Reaction management for channels: Channel admins can select the maximum number of reaction types for each post.
Changes in settings
- My profile: In the Telegram settings we now find the My profile section, which shows how other users see our profile and allows us to edit any data easily. Additionally, it is possible to pin up to three stories on the profile.
- Notification settings: New setting to control message reaction notifications. New notifications are also included for reactions to our stories.
Telegram allows us to share our location in real time with our friends or entire groups and, just like in the rest of similar applications, until now it was done for a limited time. After a certain amount of time, location sharing stopped automatically.
We can now add more time to an ongoing location share, as well as being able to share your location in real time indefinitely. So it will continue to share where you are until you deactivate it manually.
News for Premium users
- Animated emojis in surveys: Premium users can include animated and custom emojis in surveys.
- Show ads: One of the advantages of Telegram Premium is that we do not see ads in channels, but if for whatever reason you prefer to see them, you can activate them in the settings.
- Open stories anonymously: Premium users can now activate incognito mode to view stories without other people knowing directly from the chat list, with a long tap on the story and the “View anonymously” menu.
Profile photo in forwarded messages
A small visual change in Telegram makes it now Let’s see the profile photo of the author of a message we have forwarded in the chat list, making it easier to distinguish it in the chat itself or when we forward a conversation with several people.
Mass moderation for groups
Telegram group moderators have their job easier with the arrival of bulk moderation. In this way, they can select multiple messages and perform moderation actions multiple at a stroke.
For this they have a new menu with individual switches for each user and action which also includes options to restrict users’ permissions, instead of suspending them from the community immediately.
Improvements in recent actions
Recent actions, which admins use to view important events in a chat in the last 48 hours, have a more compact design by grouping similar actions carried out by the same administrator. Likewise, administrators can see responses and what topic recent action messages correspond to.
Swipe to go to the next topic
With this update we will see a small change in the groups that have topics activated: by pulling up from the bottom of the chat we will be able to go to the next topic without reading.
Quick view in Telegram Desktop
The PC version of Telegram, Telegram Desktop, can now open sites with quick viewa kind of link preview that opens directly in the application quickly.
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