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2017-12-31 23:05:44+00:00
Telegram Geeks team wish you a happy new year 😎
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2017-12-31 14:56:58+00:00
Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉
I hope you enjoyed the Telegram product updates this December. Stay tuned – we are going to make 3 big announcements in January.
On a less joyful note, Iranian authorities started blocking Telegram in Iran today after we publicly refused to shut down channels of peaceful Iranian protesters, such as @sedaiemardom.
We are proud that Telegram is used by thousands of massive opposition channels all over the world. We consider freedom of speech an undeniable human right, and would rather get blocked in a country by its authorities than limit peaceful expression of alternative opinions.
When it comes to freedom of speech, Telegram is as unrestricted as a mobile app can get. In 2015, after Apple and Google reached out to us in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, we added the simplest Terms of Service theoretically possible in an app: no calls for violence, no porn and no copyright infringement on public broadcast channels.
Since then, Telegram has been blocking hundreds of violent public channels daily (including those reported in @isiswatch), making sure our rules are applied equally and fairly to all players, regardless of their size and political affiliation.
Yesterday we had to suspend @amadnews, a public channel that started calling its subscribers to use Molotov cocktails and firearms against police. The admins of the channel reached out to us after the fact, apologizing for breaking our rules and pledging not to promote violence in the future. As a result, they have been able to reassemble most of their subscribers (800,000) in a new peaceful channel, which we welcomed.
Obviously, our neutrality and refusal to take sides in such conflicts can create powerful enemies. Iranian officials have filed criminal charges against me back in September for letting Telegram spread “uncensored news” and “extremist propaganda”. Today they imposed a block on Telegram – not clear whether permanent or temporary.
And yet, doing the right thing is more important than trying to avoid having enemies. We’re extremely lucky to have been able to consistently apply our principles in 2017. We will continue doing it in 2018 – and beyond.
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2017-12-31 12:36:09+00:00
Iranian authorities are blocking access to Telegram for the majority of Iranians after our public refusal to shut down @sedaiemardom and other peacefully protesting channels.
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2017-12-30 19:30:16+00:00
Telegram new feature for sync phone contacts
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2017-12-30 19:29:11+00:00
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2017-12-30 19:26:36+00:00
Telegram 4.7
With 4.7 by supporting multiple accounts. You can add up to three accounts with different phone numbers to your Telegram app, and then quickly switch between them from the side menu. Notifications will keep coming from all accounts, unless you change this in the Notification settings.
https://telegram.org/blog/themes-accounts
#updates #accounts
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2017-12-30 19:21:27+00:00
Tweet cited by Snowden
https://twitter.com/mosharrafzaidi/status/947167335131033600
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2017-12-30 19:17:31+00:00
Snowden confused public channels with private chats
http://telegra.ph/Telegram-and-Freedom-of-Speech-10-29
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2017-12-30 18:59:47+00:00
http://telegra.ph/Telegram-and-Freedom-of-Speech-10-29
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2017-12-30 12:57:33+00:00
New stable version 1.2.6 of Telegram Desktop is available. It supports viewing and sending of grouped media albums. You can read about albums here:
https://telegram.org/blog/albums-saved-messages
The update is available on the official website https://desktop.telegram.org, as an auto-update in Settings and on Mac App Store. It will be available in Microsoft Store in a couple of days.
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2017-12-23 00:27:01+00:00
remember that the news about the ICO are 100% rumor right now
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2017-12-22 14:43:14+00:00
In case you are curious, here is the full video:
https://youtu.be/1RG85wFrKl8
And the link if you want to share it to non-Telegram contacts:
http://telegramgeeks.com/2017/12/telegram-will-launch-ico/
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2017-12-22 08:43:41+00:00
There is a rumor saying that telegram will launch an ICO next year.
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2017-12-20 10:07:13+00:00
telegra.ph up and running again ✅
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2017-12-19 18:32:19+00:00
If you got problems with telegra.ph you can use graph.org links instead.
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2017-12-19 12:55:30+00:00
Right now you may experience some problems with @telegraph due to some errors with dotPH (The Official Domain Registry of the Philippines).
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2017-12-18 21:07:17+00:00
Telegram is facing problems with some messages.
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2017-12-15 14:15:38+00:00
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2017-12-12 12:14:49+00:00
Highlights of the last interview of bloomberg with Pavel Durov
▶️ TELEGRAM MONETIZATION
Another thing the Durov considers out of bounds is profit. He sees Telegram as a charity that he’ll start to monetize early next year, but only enough to fund expansion. And unlike his earlier creation, VK, which will face political pressure from the Kremlin as long as it’s based in Russia, he said Telegram can’t be bought — at any price.
▶️ TELEGRAM USERS
The encrypted messenger he’s been working on, Telegram, which he calls hack-proof, already has about 180 million users, including 40 million in Iran alone, and is luring half a million more each day.
▶️ BIG NEWS NEXT YEAR
Clad in black t-shirt and jeans, the St. Petersburg native said he’s planning to announce “something big” in the new year.
▶️ IRAN
And then there’s Iran, which recently charged Durov in absentia with crimes related to Telegram’s popularity among terrorists, human traffickers and pedophiles.
“I’m motivated by curiosity,” he said. “It’s super-interesting to see what it’s like to run the most popular social media platform in a country like Iran.”
With Twitter and Facebook banned, Telegram accounts for about 40 percent of all Iranian internet traffic, according to Techrasa, a market researcher. And that’s after local wireless carriers convinced officials to ban the encrypted voice-call function Durov rolled out in April. Telegram hosts 500,000 Farsi “channels” where users can post and curate all kinds of content that others can monitor for free.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/cryptic-russian-crusader-says-his-5-billion-app-can-t-be-bought
#durov #interview
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2017-12-08 16:32:53+00:00
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2017-12-08 14:49:10+00:00
New update for public links:
- Read the message at browser (like t.me/geekschannel/939)
- Embed public messages from channels/groups in your website.
#web #preview #update
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2017-12-01 09:27:57+00:00
🖥 Telegram Desktop v1.1.24 🖥
— Radically improved navigation. New side panel on the right with quick access to shared media and group members.
— Pinned Messages. If you are a channel admin, pin messages to focus your subscribers’ attention on important announcements.
— Also supported clearing history in supergroups and added a host of minor improvements.
#desktop #updates
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2017-12-01 09:27:46+00:00
🖥 Telegram Desktop 1.1.24
— Added this fancy side panel.
(Right now this update is only available at alpha version)
#desktop #update #alpha