Telegram has announced its new premium subscription, after it previewed what was coming last week. The new plan is $4.99 per month and adds things like larger file uploads, new stickers, new animated profile pictures and more. For non-paying users, the current file limit for uploads is 2GB, but Premium users will be able send files up to 4GB in size. However, even if someone sends a larger file – […]
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Telegram has confirmed that some paid features are coming soon
Telegram founder, Pavel Durov has recently announced that the social media app is going to be gaining some new premium features later this month, with a new ‘Telegram Premium’ plan. Durov has not yet confirmed all of the new features that will be included, but more information will be available when the feature becomes available. Durov has outlined that as Telegram has become more popular, people have been asking to […]
During the Facebook and WhatsApp outage, Telegram gained 70M new users
Telegram had some positive benefits from the six hour outage Facebook experienced earlier this week. The popular encrypted app supports cross device sync and other benefits, something WhatsApp doesn’t have yet, although they are working on cross device support. Telegram CEO said during the outage, his company saw around 70 million new users sign up, with little to no affect on the operations of the app for existing users. In […]
Telegram will support group video calls next month
Telegram will be launching a new group video calling mode next month to join similar systems that already exist such as Zoom, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO said the group video mode will offer familiar features that other apps have such as screen sharing and noise cancellation. Telegrams app on desktop, mobile and tablet will all support the feature. Telegram had rapid adoption earlier this year when […]