The audience survey Telegram

The last full-scale study was conducted Telegram in 2017, and our colleagues from TGStat decided to update the data. The survey should only take five minutes but will help us all to understand what is Telegram in 2019.

Request to all administrators, members of various chat rooms and bots, the owners: help in distributing the survey. Together we will make the most accurate and detailed research to the entire community.

Take the survey: tgstat.ru/research

#research #audience

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Telegram for macOS has been updated to version 5.1.1

What's new:
— Uvelichena the speed of the client and visual improvements.
— Floating date in the "General media"
— Hotkeys CMD+E and CMD+OPTION+F for global search.
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

You can download it from the website Telegram or a little later from the AppStore.

#update #macOS

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A Beta version of Telegram X for Android has received a feature from the upcoming update Telegram: the user Status in the list of chats (online — green circle).

To download the beta version from Google Play after you log into the testing program.

#android #telegramX #update

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Telegram Desktop has been updated to version 1.6.6 Beta

What's new:
— The ability to replace media on a GIF, when I edit a post.
— Fixes to copy text with markdown.
— Fixes animation works in some places.
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Download: from the official website or from GitHub.

#update #desktop #beta

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Telegram launched a closed beta of its blockchain

But the full launch is too early, the developers had the opportunity to install node blockchain network TON, explained the leaders of the two companies, noting that the specific test results yet. The first test results show "very high speed transactions."

tginfo.me/ton-closed-tests

#TON #crypt

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Exactly a year ago at 11:33 Tagansky court of Moscow issued a decision to block Telegram on the territory of the Russian Federation.

It was a difficult year for the messenger, but Telegram have coped with the lock and remains available for the majority of users.

#lock

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According to Mediascope, daily reach Telegram back in the fall exceeded the daily audience to lock in April 2018, when the service was riveted everyone's attention. When there were 3.6 million users.

In November 2018 Telegram set a new record: in the month of his audience in Russia exceeded 4 million people a day. In February 2019 (the latest available data) daily audience has reached 4.4 million users.

https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/13/04/2019/5caf56bb9a7947f245247621

#statistics

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Daily and monthly audience of messengers in Russia.

#statistics

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Telegram Desktop has been updated to the stable version 1.6.7

What's new:
— The possibility of replacing the media when editing posts.
— Ability to copy link to the post from a private channel/chat (link looks like this: t.me/c/1460996379/22).
— Ability to move to the top of the list of chats.
Tips Emoji for the first typed word in the message.
— Ability to improve sentences Emoji on the official translation platform messenger.

Download: from the official website or from GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable

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Bot API has been updated to version 4.2

Now bots can:
— Work with surveys.
— Delete messages sent by the user within 48 hours.
— Pin and unpin messages to regular groups.
To see redistributed by the author of the message, if the author has hidden the ability to go into your profile.

Starting from July 2019, the web hook requests from a Bot API will be coming from subnets 149.154.160.0/91.108.4.0 20 and/22. The list of IP addresses of servers used to send web hooks can be found at this link.

Preview documents now need to enter a square with a size of 320x320 instead of 90x90.

core.telegram.org/bots/api#april-14-2019

#BotAPI #update

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In connection with increased activity of RKN we launched a new proxy

Digital resistance continues!

Connect proxy

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Exactly a year ago across Russia Telegram problems — according to the court, Monday morning, one by one, operators have begun to block the messenger.

Remember what is remembered the year of digital resistance.

tginfo.me/one-year-block

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The head of Roskomnadzor called the system lock Telegram inconclusive

"We continue to define the IP addresses on which the Telegram exists. Block them. Periodically you probably see on your phone that loaded it slower" — Alexander Zharov, head of Roscomnadzor.

Zharov said he did not want to take stock and "full disclosure", as the Agency only takes a judicial decision.

tjournal.ru/93746

#lock

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Coming to the end of the 365-th day, and the first year of the lock Telegram

— The state Duma adopted in the third reading the law on sovereign Russian segment of the Internet.
— The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov has recognized that the current system of blocking the Telegram does not lead to the desired results.
— A few large holders of the proxies could not resist the pressure of RKN and stop supporting their proxies.
— We launched a new proxy for subscribers Telegram Info and all of our friends!

"The dog barks, the caravan moves on."

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German FINTECH company Wirecard and TON Labs enter into partnership

The planned creation of a joint digital financial services, payment and banking platform.

Wirecard, a global leader in innovation in the field of digital financial technology, and TON Labs, the developer of the infrastructure and ecosystem for decentralized platform Telegram Open Network (TON), today announced its plans to develop a joint platform for digital financial services, payments and banking transactions.

https://www.wirecard.com/newsroom/press-releases/newsdetail/wirecard-and-telegram-open-network-infrastructure-developer-ton-labs-enter-partnership/

#TON #crypt

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A Beta version of Telegram X Android got the ability to clear local data account without having to reenter it.

Attention: all secret chats, settings and downloaded data will be lost. The possibility of optimizing to a local database of messages is not currently supported in TDLib.

To download the beta version from Google Play after you log into the testing program.

#android #telegramX #update

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Last week, the Telegram has become the most popular messenger on iOS in 9 countries: map

This:
— Russia
— Ukraine
— Belarus
— Kyrgyzstan
— Uzbekistan
— Kazakhstan
— Turkmenistan
— Oman
Saint Kitts and Nevis

New to this list:
— Turkmenistan
— Oman
Saint Kitts and Nevis (a state of which is Pavel Durov)

Countries where Telegram is the second most popular instant messenger:
— Malaysia
— Italy
Sri Lanka
— Saudi Arabia

#statistics

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Google has removed Talagram and Hotgram from Google Play

Two applications are completely identical (except the name and package). At a time when other customers in Iran require a VPN (because of the ban, as in Russia), Talagram and Hotgram cope without them. Most likely it provides its own VPN server to collect data.

Informal clients were not only removed from the store, but also from users ' devices. Earlier it was reported that Telegram does not recommend these applications because they can receive all of your correspondence, lists of proxies and even intercept the authorization codes in the messenger, getting the full control over it.

In addition to Google Play, the program placed in the official Iranian marketplace Cafebazar that says that apps can be associated with the Iranian authorities.

bbc.com/persian/iran-48053794

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MTS recognized the excess off SMS alerts to activist Kozlowski

In April 2016, by intercepting SMS was hacked by Oleg Kozlovsky, Director of the NGO "the way of the future". Immediately after Kozlowski's message about a possible break-in MTS, said that "any purposeful action on disabling services not been made." A month later, the operator found that the restrictions were still. Before the official answer of the press service, support staff stated that the delivery of SMS messages is temporarily disabled, cause he never called.

In the now published documents, MTS claims that, on 29 April 2016 employees found unauthorized requests for its subscribers. To prevent the attack, the duty technician has disabled the delivery of SMS messages to the numbers of users that were attacked. The company said that the requests were received in relation to 16 subscribers, the number of Oleg Kozlovsky was on this list. The employee involved in the disconnection of service was reprimanded and 27 July 2016, has resigned. Official check the company held in may 2016.

tjournal.ru/law/94923

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After removal from Google Play, Talagram and Hotgram was removed from the Iranian marketplace

Cafebazar app store for the Android operating system (more than 20 million downloads from two customers).
Sibapp store apps for iOS (more than 2 million downloads from two customers).

In addition, applications are available in other Iranian marketplace, the total number of users of these clients may exceed the mark of 25 million Per day on the official app channels, installation apk files Talagram and Hotgram gained 2.3 and 1.3 million views, respectively.

Client sites talagram.ir and hotgram.ir, where you can download their setup files without the need to use stores, continue to function.

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