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In honor of the holiday of all lovers client Telegram for Android and iOS got festive icons.

#Android #iOS

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Updated profile view for iOS

Telegram for iOS
also received an update on the profiles. It looks like the system app "Contact".

Now username and links in your bio profile is clickable.

#iOS

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Dice on Telegram

In addition to the already existing animated emojis, one more was added: 🎲

Each time, after sending or clicking on it, a random number drops out, as in real life.

Currently works only on iOS client.

#iOS
Discover in a Telegram

Last night we upgraded the feature that allows you to search for people near you, and in less than a day there were dozens of users around who share their location.

Read more about holiday innovation in our article.

tginfo.me/people-nearby-en/

#liderada

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20 million monthly active users of Telegram in Russia

According to Mediascope, 56,3% of all Russians older than 12 years, or slightly more than 69 million people, at least once a month used WhatsApp. In second place was Viber, which was used in 30.5% of Russians, or 37.3 million people. Telegram was among the three most popular services — it was used by 16.8 percent of the population over 12 years old, or 20.5 million users.

kod.ru/mediascope-top-messengers-feb-20

#statistics

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Clean up deleted account on February 15-16, 2020

According to the results of February 16, the total number of replies in the Russian-speaking Telegram channels were 6.3 million. 15 Feb occurred 600 thousand of replies. Total ~6.9 million of replies in 2 days.

It is important to note that the 6.9 million lost amount all Russian channels, unique same accounts, according to the Tgstat, was tens of thousands.

This is the result of extensive cleaning Telegram from inactive accounts and bots, which occurs periodically.

Large, but not so extensive cleaning that was recorded earlier:
- February 2019: ~2.9 million replies for 3 days
- June 2019: ~2.6 million of replies in 10 days
- July, 2019: ~1.8 million replies for 3 days
- Oct 2019: ~1.6 million of replies in 2 days

Read more about the cleanup of the deleted accounts, we wrote in 2018, then half a year has passed since the beginning of the lock and removed podpischiki who lost bypass the lock.

#cheaters

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Tomorrow, February 19, held a landmark hearing in the SEC case against the Telegram, which the Prosecutor will try to prove that TON is a centralized company that aims at a single goal – obtaining financial benefits.

For those who missed the news on @infotonen, we will tell about interesting events in recent weeks:

1. On the official website of Telegram Open Network appeared info on how to create a website in a decentralized network TON. Many of the media dubbed it as a replacement for TOR, anonymous or underground Internet. A little later, on 11 February were added to the integration TON the DNS.

2. SEC received additional arguments in a dispute with the Telegram. Former chief investment officer Telegram John Hyman testified under oath in the case of the Commission on securities and stock exchanges of the USA (SEC) against the Telegram Group Inc. and TON Issuer Inc.

3. Developers and investors TON created non-profit organization THANK Community Foundation to manage the community and sent to a third party's opinion in U.S. court.

#TON #crypt

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The official website of the competitions were the work of participants of the second round of the competition for developers writing JavaScript.

The purpose of the second round was the continuation of the work on the simplified web version of Telegram without using third-party environments the user interface.

While the judges are preparing to publish the results of the competition, you can see the submitted works on website of the competition.

To view, you need to select the participant and click the button "OPEN WEBSITE".

Note: the competition involves third-party developers, use them clients at your own risk. We do not recommend to log into your main account.

#contest

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Telegram Desktop updated to stable version 1.9.14

What's new:
— New name for the app in the App Store – Telegram Lite.
— Size of tray icon on Linux returned by 22 (except KDE).
— Fixed disabling post count on KDE.
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable

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Blockchair launched a columnist for the Telegram Open Network (TON)
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While Pavel Durov and the team Telegram Open Network defends the project before the American regulator, ecosystem project TON developing. So, the team Blockchair recently launched its Explorer to TON.

Blockchair.com – platform to search for information about transactions and addresses in different blockchains. Blockchair allows you to search for transactions in the blockchain TON in a user friendly format. The service also offers API for TON for developers of applications and services.

The company previously released the reviewers for Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV after their forks, then the prospect of these cryptocurrencies, as in the case of TON, was unclear.

Added browser TON commented on Edige Davletgaliev, head of research Blockchair: "the Problem of scalable cryptocurrency – the unsolved technical problem, which imposes restrictions on their distribution. The team has a TON of experience in the creation of two extremely high-loaded products: VK and Telegram, therefore, we see a TON of prospects. Legal issues are artificially created, nothing can stop technology".

Details about the new product at: blockchair.com/ton

#TON #crypt

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⚡️The court extended restrictions on the sale of gram

In new York, the court session in the case of the SEC against Telegram has ended. The judge decided to extend the existing restriction on the sale of tokens. Further hearings in the TON/SEC case were postponed until April 30.

Judging by the comments of those present, it was possible to prove decentralization, but the court has doubts that the stated capabilities of TON correspond to the actual state of Affairs. According to those who were at the trial, judge Castell understands blockchain and decentralization and wants to understand the topic more deeply.

#TON #crypt

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Telegram for iOS has been updated to version 5.15.1

What's new:
— the search Button is rendered to the screen information about chat.
— Long description chat now minimized.
— Ability to switch between tabs total media swipe.
— Fixed bug not giving down below a certain position in the overall media.

Download the update from App Store.

#update #swift #iOS

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A Beta version of Telegram for macOS has better timing for scheduled posts. Previously you had to scroll through time, as in mobile clients.

Also, there are new animations when you click on “Search”.

#Beta #macOS

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On GitHub was published the source code of Telegram for iOS version of 5.15.1

#iOS #source code

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Hourly increase of subscribers and the dynamics of views on publications TGStat.com

Hourly increase of subscribers
In the new detailed statistics displayed mark on Riposto and the reference channel, as well as the notes on own publications, which make it easy to assess after the event has occurred or increase the outflow of subscribers.

Hourly dynamics viewed publications
Detailed statistics there and for publishing channel. In the first hour after publication on the chart you can observe the dynamics of growth hits 10 minutes, and starting from the second hour chart will show the dynamics of growth hits hourly. In addition, the interface statistics publications appeared, the exact date of removal of quick switching between the publication of the channel and fixed the indicators with the number of views of published for 1, 3, 8, 24 and 48 hours, which is extremely useful when evaluating the effectiveness of planning and placement of advertising publications for a fixed period.

Hourly indicators are available from January 1, 2020.

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Telegram Desktop has been updated to version 1.9.15 Beta

What's new:
- Mark new messages as read while scrolling down through them.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #beta

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Filters to stable version of Telegram for macOS

To enable the filters to stable version, go to developer menu (5 times click on the icon “Settings”) and enable “Enable filters”.

The required version of client 5.9.3 (191684). You can download it from the site Telegram or AppStore.

#macOS

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an Important feature of the binding of chat to channel

After binding the public chat to a private channel, he loses some features of the private channel (which is virtually public).

User:
— switch to channel forward.
— Switch to channel on the link of the form t.me/c/.

Important feature:
After unbinding the public chat of the channel or switch it to private, users who have switched to the channel for some time, then you can go to him.

This is due to the characteristics of the messenger. For the client to remember a hash of the private channel, so the user can navigate.

#FAQ

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Telegram Desktop updated to version 1.9.17 Beta, and later to version 1.9.18 Beta, then to version 1.9.19 Beta

What's New in 1.9.19:
- Fixed crashes in Windows 7.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.

What's New in 1.9.18:
- Fixed problems with authorization.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.

What's New in 1.9.17:
- Added spell checking support for Windows 7 (Linux, Windows 7+, macOS 10.12+).
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #beta
Purging deleted accounts 15-20 Feb 2020

last week there was the massive cleanup of stranded accounts in the Telegram. For 6 days were removed the total number of subscribers of the channel:
- 21.2 million (Russia)
- 14.5 million (Iran)
- 13 million (Uzbekistan)
1 million (Ukraine)

These figures give we TGStat. Besides following the cleansing, 2169 channels really TGStat got red marks, indicating the cheat.

#cheaters

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