🧑‍💻 Over the past few years, our moderation team has been working tirelessly to keep Telegram safe. Each month they removed about 1 million channels and groups, along with over 10 million users who violated our rules. These impressive results were made possible thanks to your reports, as well as our automated detection systems and AI-powered tools 😵

🤫 However, much of this work remained behind the scenes. The public wasn’t fully aware of the extent of our moderation efforts, and media outlets often relied on outdated information from parts of our website that hadn’t been updated in a decade 🕷

🖥 To address this, we’ve launched a new section on our website: telegram.org/moderation. This page highlights the incredible work our moderators have done over the years and offers a transparent overview of our ongoing commitment to keeping Telegram safe 🧹

• http://telegram.org/android
• https://telegram.org/dl/android/apk
• https://t.me/TAndroidAPK

OR

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger

- optimized chat list and messages with video qualities
- supported selecting multiple bots from reply markup keyboard in bot api
- update media in media viewer when message is edited, supported closing interfaces when deleting chats/posts
- minor fixes
- fix opening links in bubble mode
- crash fixes
- fix double download of hls videos when pressed on download button with auto download disabled, but autoplay is enabled

• http://telegram.org/android
• https://telegram.org/dl/android/apk
• https://t.me/TAndroidAPK

OR

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger

- ads placement fixes
- crash fix in video editor, lag fixes

🔍 Earlier this month, we launched AI-powered sticker search. We added search tags to all 40,000+ stickers created by Telegram artists over the past 10 years. As a result, the new search supports multiple keywords in 34 languages, helping you find the perfect sticker — or emoji, if you’re a Premium user ⭐️

😏 But this is just the beginning. Next month, the sticker tab will also let you search through millions of popular custom stickers uploaded by our users 😏

💡 Stickers have been one of the many innovations that define Telegram. AI-powered search will make discovering them easier than ever 🔭

🔮 As I predicted, 2024 turned out to be a very good year for Telegram. For the first time in its 3-year history of monetization, Telegram became profitable 🏆

📈 This year, the number of Telegram Premium subscribers tripled, exceeding 12 million. Our ad revenue also increased a few times. As a result, Telegram's total revenue in 2024 surpassed $1 billion, and we are closing the year with more than $500 million in cash reserves, not including crypto assets 🪙

🏦 Over the past four years, Telegram has issued about $2 billion in debt. We repaid a meaningful share of it this Fall, taking advantage of favorable prices for the Telegram bonds. But there’s a lot of work ahead 👨‍💻

↗️ Our innovations in monetization this year (⭐️ Stars, 🎁 Gifts, 🪙 Giveaways, 🖥 Mini Apps, 🤝 the Affiliate Platform, 💼 Telegram Business, and 📥 Telegram Gateway…) demonstrate that social media platforms can achieve financial sustainability while staying independent and respecting users' rights.

🎯 The purpose of monetization is to ensure that you, our users, will always remain our #️⃣1️⃣ priority 🫂