Millions of people have been signing up and sharing content on Telegram in the last hour while Instagram and Facebook were down. Interestingly, Telegram is more reliable than these services — despite spending several times less on infrastructure per user.

We also have about 1000 times (!) fewer full-time employees than Meta, but manage to launch new features and innovate faster.

Throughout 2023, Telegram was unavailable for a total of only 9 minutes out of the year’s 525,600 minutes. That’s a 99.999983% uptime 🏅

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Telegram cooperation with Malaysia

On Saturday, March 2, the Malaysian Minister of Communications held a personal meeting with Pavel Durov in Dubai. The Durov Code drew attention to the news.

The main topics of the meeting were platform regulation and the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence. Durov expressed interest in further discussions about the possibility of cooperation with the Malaysian government to optimize the regulatory aspects of the platform and promised to expand Telegram's activities in the country.

Pavel Durov also announced the platform’s readiness to cooperate with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to improve regulation and rally forces in the fight against fraud and gambling.

Last May, Malaysia's communications minister reported that Telegram was "unwilling to cooperate" with the ministry, despite numerous requests for a meeting.

Statistics for 2022 indicate that Malaysia has 32 million internet users, of which 28 million are social media users. Telegram is used by 56% of internet users in the country, giving a rough estimate of between 15 and 18 million users in Malaysia.

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👨‍💻 This week we launched the first batch of Telegram Business features. Users can now convert their personal Telegram accounts into business accounts. As a result, they will be able to add their location and opening hours, organize chats with color labels, use automatic greeting/away messages and shortcuts for quick replies.

That’s just the start — we are shipping more Telegram Business features this month. One of these features will revolutionize how people interact with chatbots. Telegram Business accounts will be able to seamlessly add chatbots as their invisible secretaries to respond to all or certain chats. With AI, these chatbots can bring customer service automation to an entirely new level.

The new Bot APIs for developers will become available later this month, all for free. Stay tuned — more exciting stuff is coming for businesses and developers on Telegram this season.

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✈️Telegram Desktop 💻
◾️ Version: 4.15.1

What's New:

• Support for Telegram Business features have been added.

• Shared contacts in chats now have a new style.

• Link previews are now generated for links inside quote blocks.

• Privacy settings that require Telegram Premium now have icons to indicate this.

• When adding a new admin, they will now have admin rights to view chat history by default.

• Support for AVIF, HEIF, and JPEG XL formats has been added for the macOS version of the app.

• Built-in markup is now supported when exporting chats to HTML for replies.

• A character limit counter has been added when editing messages without media.

• An issue with editing long media captions containing emoji has been fixed.

• An issue causing the text about vote counts to be deleted in polls with reactions has been resolved.

• The character limit counter for the bio input field has been fixed.

• An error that occurred when sending .tgs files as stickers has been corrected.


Download⬇️: official website🌐or GitHub🐱

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Telegram fined 4 million rubles ($43,920)

In Moscow, a magistrate court fined Telegram 4 million rubles for refusing to remove “inaccurate data about the losses of the Russian army.”

(Telegram Messenger Inc.) guilty of committing an administrative offense under Article 19.7.10-4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, and punishing telegram with an administrative fine in the amount of 4,000,000 (four million) rubles.

The article provides for liability for violation of the so-called law “on self-control” - Telegram refused to delete content that was previously recognized as prohibited for distribution in the Russian Federation.

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Pavel Durov said that Telegram was valued at $30 billion before a possible IPO

In an interview , Durov clarified that the $30 billion estimate was made, among other things, by global technology funds. At the same time, the Financial Times noted, he ruled out the sale of Telegram. Also, the messenger’s audience has grown to 900 million monthly active users.

“Overall, we see value in the IPO as a means of democratizing access to value in Telegram,”

- @Durov

Meanwhile, the TON💎 currency reacts with an increase of 15%.📈

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Each Telegram user costs the messenger $0.7 per year, said Pavel Durov. Every year, about €630 million is required to maintain operations. This is almost 62,391,000,000 rubles.

Moreover, Durov’s team has only 50 people. If Telegram manages to achieve self-sufficiency, then an initial public offering (IPO) may take place.

Durov believes that this will happen in 2025, “if not this year.” There are offers from potential investors worth more than $30 billion, but the sale of Telegram is excluded:

The main reason we started monetizing is because we wanted to remain independent. We see value [in the IPO] as a means of democratizing access to Telegram's value.

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AI may appear in Telegram 🧠

Pavel Durov, in a recent interview with the Financial Times, said that in the event of an IPO of the messenger, the possibility of attracting additional investments to work on AI functions is being considered.

In particular, Telegram is exploring the possibility of introducing an AI-based chatbot. By the way, in early March, Durov announced an update to the platform for creating chatbots with the ability to integrate AI.

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✈️Telegram Android Beta
◾️Version: 10.9.1
◾️Build: 44679

What's New :

• new emoji support
• fix first profile video avatar save to gallery
• fix setting video volume in stories
• fix channel recommendations long tap preview
• fix opening story reposts navigation
• fix transcription loading causing unnecessary scrolling

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✈️Telegram Desktop 💻
◾️ Version: 4.15.2

What's New:

• Telegram Business: Greeting Message.

• Telegram Business: Away Messages

• Telegram Business: Quick Replies.

• Telegram Business: Working Hours.

• Close the ongoing call window without hanging up the call.

• Fast scroll through chats list with Ctrl or Shift pressed.

• Several bug fixes

Download⬇️:
Official website 🌐 or GitHub🐱

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