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In the state Duma proposed a bill to stop locks Telegram

state Duma Deputies from "Fair Russia" Fedot Tumusov and Dmitry Jonas has prepared a draft law on the termination of the lock Telegram, which is now, in essence, is the "official service" of government agencies through which they disseminate information about the coronavirus. Unsuccessful attempts to block the messenger "is to damage the prestige of the government", say the authors. They sent their draft to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, as well as in the Ministry of communications. The communications Ministry confirmed receipt of the document.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4328489

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Document will make to the state Duma only in case of support of the Ministry of communications, said the authors

"We are now talking with the Ministry of communications, so there was sent a bill. We don't contribute [to the Duma], while the Ministry of communications still, his assessment will not, because it is clear that if there is no government support, the bill with a probability of 99.9% will not be accepted by the state Duma. This is the current practice", – explained state Duma deputies from the faction "Fair Russia" Dmitry Jonas.

We will remind, recently the Ministry of communications used the Telegram to create groups to help citizens to return from other countries home and advertise on the website of the office your telegram channel.

#lock

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Telegram X Android upgraded to version Beta 0.22.7.1325

What's new
:
— Explanations for the quizzes.
— Statistics Telegram channels (need to display more than 1000 subscribers).
— Support for animated dice and Darts.
— Edit the messages in the channels without time restrictions.
Development of new built-in camera
— The ability to replace the built-in camera system.
— Other new camera settings.
— Proposal Emoji when typing :dice: now cloud-based and does not depend on the installed language.
The result sent the dice and Darts in the notification and preview of the chat in the conversation list.
— Viewing and setting the exceptions in the privacy menu, profiles of groups and users.
— Ability to select a group exception of privacy.
— Global search in the select exceptions of privacy.
— Global search when creating groups and channels.
— Warning, if more than one message from the selected can be removed from one side only (not sides).
— Remove redirect links when you paste text copied from a browser other services
— Many other changes and fixes.

Download Google Play.

#android #telegramX #update

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the communications Ministry is waiting for the initiative from the state Duma and in the Kremlin come from the de jure situation

Ministry of communications he said that did not conduct the examination of the draft law on Telegram.
"We consider those initiatives that come to us from the state Duma, after they have been taken by deputies for consideration. This bill we have not seen, and so give him an examination or assessment cannot," - said Deputy head of the Ministry Alexey Volin.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov noted in the Kremlin in this matter proceed from the de jure situation.
"Really is the situation de facto and de jure. We believe the de jure situation, we have to do it, there is a corresponding decision of the court on the basis of which efforts were made to block [Telegram]," — said Peskov. However, he acknowledged that "de facto situation is different".

"the Power must remain infallible, so it's likely that the bill "blurry", all Telegram will continue to lead the channels and the lock will gradually be forgotten. Power is the best option" — believes Director General of the Agency iTrend Paul Gitnik.

#lock

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Telegram for Android and iOS updated to version 6.1

• Sticker catalog
20,000 stickers from professional artists are available in the updated sticker panel. To open a section, click the “+” icon.
Use the search to find stickers, or simply scroll down to view all sticker sets.

• Quiz 2.0
Ability to add explanations that appear after users answer the test question.
The timer in the polls will show how much time is left to answer in the quizzes created using @QuizBot.

• Competition quiz creators
The creators of educational tests can apply for a competition with a prize pool of € 400,000. To participate, you must create a test on educational topics using @QuizBot.

• Animated Darts
Send emoji 🎯 to see if you hit the target.

• Eternal editing of posts on the channel
Now owners of channels will be able to edit sent messages without time limits (previously the limit was 48 hours).

Android only:

• New attachment menu
Quickly switch between different types of attachments in a completely redesigned attachment menu with animated icons.

• Full statistics of Telegram channels
The missing statistics block with collecting information, now everything looks like on an iOS client.

• Improved memory settings
A clear display of the occupied space by the messenger in relation to other applications and the total amount of space on the phone.

Read more in the article: tginfo.me/400-million-en

Android: Google Play, APK from the official site or verified channel.
iOS: App Store.

#update #swift #iOS #Android
Bot API has been updated to version 4.8

What's new:
— Explanations for quizzes with support for markdown.
— Support for "Animated dice."
— Added the field open_period and close_date for the object Poll. The survey, which closes automatically at a certain time.
— A new parameter for an object sendDice – animated Darts.
— Added Emoji box for the object Dice.

core.telegram.org/bots/api#april-24-2020

#update #BotAPI

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Group video calling in the Telegram going to do the winners

Announced the results of the third stage of the competition to improve the quality of calls. 8 winners shared the €50 000, read more about them on official channel.

The third stage completed the public phase of the competition to improve calls in messenger. In the future, the team will continue to work more closely with the participants. the Winner competition, winning first place writes that his decision is of a higher quality than others, and will continue to improve. Thanks to WebRTC and group video calls can be launched in a few weeks.

Earlier the problem for the introduction of group video calls and Telegram was the lack of the developer. Now secure group calls in the Telegram in 2020 can become a reality thanks to the participants of the contest.

#contest

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the Most likely scenario, investors believe the release of Gram

the Last day investors a TON to discuss among themselves one of the variants of development of events around the project. Until April 30 the command Telegram has to either run a TON and produce tokens Gram, or return the money to investors, net of costs of the project.

The most likely scenario, investors contacted The Bell, I think the issue of Gram. Three out of four interviewees heard about what such developments are now discussing and other investors.

Fourth, the investor claims that such a plan is already known to the majority of investors TON, and the beginning of the discussion gave private conversations of some of the investors with the representatives of the Telegram. According to him, there is the option of a refund all the American investors of the project and production of Gram for all investors from other jurisdictions.

No official announcement Telegram three days before 30 April are not done yet.

thebell.io/piratstvo-xxi-veka-investory-telegram-opasayutsya-chto-durov-ne-vernet-im-dengi/

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15 million daily active users of Telegram in Russia in Mart

Only 50 million installations Telegram from Russia.

According to @tgmarketing

#statistics

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The TON will have its own operating system: TON OS

The operating system will allow you to run services on the blockchain on any device and be able to work with any cryptocurrency that is important in the context of a ban on the production of Gram by the US authorities.

Soon in the app store, Play store and AppStore apps TON OS — the operating system for blockchain platform TON. About it told RBC a source close to Telegram.

TON OS is not an alternative to existing operating systems, it will be an add-on for devices to support applications on the blockchain, he said.

TON OS was not mentioned in the Memorandum, platform, TON, and, according to the source RBC, the command Telegram has no direct relationship to the creation of the operating system. "Telegram within the blockchain platform is not involved in decisions at the application level", — said the source.

rbc.ru/technology_and_media/29/04/2020/5ea869249a79474ca9dbf27d

#TON

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Pavel Durov suggested investors to wait for one more year⁠⁠⁠⁠

Investors in TON proposed plan of refund in case of loss in court: either to return 72% of investments right now, or wait another year and get tokens or 110% of the invested.

If until April 2021 trade cryptocurrency Gram will not be allowed in the US, Durov has promised to pay investors a stock Telegram.

https://tginfo.me/ton-letter-to-investors/
Manage folders

a month ago, appeared in the Telegram folder. Many have already managed to try them in action, but today we will tell about lifehacks and non-obvious functions folder.

This is the third and final installment of the folder.

The first two:
Folder. Guide.
Folder. History.

tginfo.me/uses-folders/

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Telegram for Android has been updated to version 6.1.1
Telegram for iOS and macOS has been updated to version 6.1.2

whats new:
— Support for a new type of fixed channel to inform about the pandemic (likely to be included later).
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Android:
— Formatting-enabled hyperlinks with writing an explanation in the quiz.
— Work notifications.

iOS Only:
— Edit the posts on the channel without time limit (previously would not work).

Android: Google Play APK official website or verified channel.
iOS: App Store.
macOS: App Store or official website.

#update #swift #iOS #Android #macOS

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Advanced deferred messages in Telegram channels

Many people know that in the messenger adds support for pending posts, but it does not fit all. For some occasions are better bots.

A new service for admins — @FleepBot allows you to create your own personal way + unlimited number of bots-assistants.

Features Fleep :
— Statistics of advertising revenues and growth in subscribers.
— Quickly create beautiful price lists.
— Creation and storage of ad creatives.
— Publication of albums, replies and repost.
— Easy copying of posts in different channels.
— Double protection against problems, and ongoing technical support.

Go to flip, so nothing distracts you from doing Telegram channel: @FleepBot

#advertising

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Advertising in the Telegram?

the Telegram update to version 6.1.1 (Telegram Desktop 2.1.1) added support for new type of secured channel. It is intended to convey important information about the pandemic to users.

At the moment, the feature only works on the test server.

Revision Telegram Info assumes that after the end of the pandemic, the function can be used to advertise channels and bots.

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Telegram Desktop has been updated to version 2.1.1

What's new:
— Support for a new type of fixed channel to inform about the pandemic (likely to be included later).
— Improved the tooltips for explanations quizzes.
— New settings for hot keys in shortcuts-custom.json:
next_folder and previous_folder — the next and previous folder.
all_chats — the folder "All chats".
folder1, folder2, ..., folder6 — the folders 1 to 6. Keep in mind, the first folder is the first folder after the "All chats".
last_folder is the last folder.
— Bot in the participants list now displays the status message access.
In channels now uses the word "members" instead of "participants".
— The color of the window frames is taken from app color theme under GNOME Wayland on Linux.

corrected:
— On Linux the notification settings hang, if not available daemon notifications.
— When mounted in a folder that has been deleted on the server, there was a departure.
— When you update the filter list scroll reset.
— When you delete dice and Darts for both parties the customer has tried to remove the other user, despite the fact that the API does not allow to do the first 24 hours after posting.
Link "Send" tooltip dice and Darts displayed, even if the user does not have rights to send messages.
— When setting some colors of themes occurred departure.
— When sending multiple images as separate files panel Emoji could be too far away from her buttons.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable

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Article in the blog about the update Telegram is available in Russian and 17 languages

Now you will peregrinovna to the page with the language your system. It is likely that the same could happen with the FAQ (answers to frequently asked questions).

telegram.org/blog/400-million/ru?ln=a

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Telegram for Android has been downloaded over 500 million times

It
is important that this is the instant messenger download from Google Play, and besides it there are other application stores. Also, do not forget about iPhone and iPad users downloading applications from the App Store, as well as Telegram clients for PC.

Recall that recently Pavel Durov announced about 400 million active users messenger and billions in ID in Telegram there in the last year.

The mark of 100 million downloads in the Play store Telegram overcame in June 2016

#statistics

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Telegram will not allow American investors to wait for launch TON

"unfortunately, given your status as an investor from the United States and based on later discussions with the relevant authorities and our attorneys, we made the difficult decision not to use this option you [American investors — approx. The Bell] due to the uncertain attitude of the regulatory authorities in the United States. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by these changes, but we believe that to reduce unnecessary regulatory risk in the interests of all parties," — the document reads (the text is at The Bell).

Durov, who will sell shares of the Telegram whether they will be offered to investors TON and what is the rating investors are not reported. Official estimates Telegram none of the investors surveyed by The Bell, doesn't know. In General, they are not sure that it exists. The question — the cost of a messenger — they call a score that can range from $4 to $10 billion.

thebell.io/durov-ne-razreshil-amerikanskim-investoram-zhdat-zapuska-ton-eshhe-god

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Gram Wallet for Android on Telegram Info has been updated to version 1.2.4

What's new:
— New link in the settings:
• Where to get Grama
• Feedback
— Version of the app in settings.

Download in Play store click the link (several times), if you have no updates.

#android #wallet #update

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