Pavel Durov it's time to ban Telegram channels and keep criminality away! https://xn--r1a.website/BanTelegramChannels

We are sorry that we need to open a channel for that, BUT PAVEL DUROV IGNORED OUR REQUESTS (but even from other people) RELATED TO CRIMES FOR YEARS! It's time to say BASTA! It's time to improve Telegram support too!

We gave you enough time to fix such issue

😝 Next month, channel owners on Telegram can start receiving financial rewards from their work.

Broadcast channels on Telegram generate 1 trillion views monthly. Currently, only 10% of these views are monetized with Telegram Ads — a promotion tool designed with privacy in mind.

In March, the Telegram Ad Platform will officially open to all advertisers in nearly a hundred new countries. Channel owners in these countries will start receiving 50% of any revenue that Telegram makes from displaying ads in their channels.

To ensure ad payments and withdrawals are fast and secure, we will exclusively use the TON blockchain. Similar to our approach with Telegram usernames on Fragment, we will sell ads and share revenue with channel owners in Toncoin. This will create a virtuous circle, in which content creators will be able to either cash out their Toncoins — or reinvest them in promoting and upgrading their channels 🤑

After my last post, some people expressed concern that, as a result of ad sales exclusively for TON, Telegram may end up holding an unhealthy share of Toncoin, which will be too concentrated for a decentralized ecosystem. We acknowledge these concerns and have come up with a solution.

To limit Telegram’s share of TON at ≈10% of the supply, we’ll be selling the upcoming surplus of our TON holdings to long-term investors — under 1-4 years lockup and vesting plan, but at a discount to the market price. This way free-floating TON will get locked up, stabilizing the ecosystem and reducing volatility.

Potential investors in TON have been actively trying to reach out to us through various means. To make the process of any TON sales from Telegram fair and streamlined, we set up a new email address investors@telegram.org, where large investors ($1M+) can express their interest. Thanks to the participation of more long-term holders, TON will remain stable and decentralized.

Después de mi última publicación, algunas personas expresaron su preocupación de que, como resultado de las ventas de anuncios exclusivamente para TON, Telegram pueda terminar teniendo una participación poco saludable de Toncoin, que estará demasiado concentrada para un ecosistema descentralizado. Reconocemos estas preocupaciones y hemos encontrado una solución.

Para limitar la participación de Telegram en TON a ≈10% del suministro, venderemos el próximo excedente de nuestras tenencias de TON a inversionistas a largo plazo, bajo un plan de bloqueo y adquisición de derechos de 1 a 4 años, pero con un descuento sobre el precio de mercado. . De esta manera, las TON flotantes quedarán bloqueadas, estabilizando el ecosistema y reduciendo la volatilidad.

Los inversores potenciales en TON han intentado activamente comunicarse con nosotros a través de diversos medios. Para que el proceso de cualquier venta de TON desde Telegram sea justo y simplificado, configuramos una nueva dirección de correo electrónico inversores@telegram.org , donde los grandes inversores (más de 1 millón de dólares) pueden expresar su interés. Gracias a la participación de más titulares a largo plazo, TON permanecerá estable y descentralizado.

10,000 subscribers of mine are now happily enjoying their Telegram Premium thanks to this giveaway I prepaid on Fragment a few hours ago. Congratulations! 🥳

As a result, my channel reached Level 9 and I was able to set a fancy emoji status ☕️ and a wallpaper suitable for a @nerd 🤓

This February, we redefined many-to-many communication by adding 9 new features for group chats.

Now, groups can publish stories and save them as posts on their profile pages for all their members to enjoy. Group chats can also set their unique wallpapers and statuses, both visible to all their members. Group appearance can now be customized in detail: for example, group admins can choose a color and a logo for the group profile cover, or the style of links.

All these features are already available and are unlocked by group members who 'boost' their favorite chats (boosters can get special perks in the groups). Groups that prefer not to ask their members for boosts can instead conduct giveaways, similar to what I did in this channel today.

We wanted to include 5 more features in this update, but the App Store Gods were not in our favor. You will see these features very soon in our March update! 🍀

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 🏅

👨‍💻 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.

Fearless curiosity drives innovation.

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Decidí volver a hablar con la prensa para informar mejor a los mercados financieros sobre el increíble crecimiento y progreso de Telegram.

Mi última entrevista fue con Bloomberg en 2017, pero el Financial Times es el único periódico que leo en papel.

All large social media apps are easy targets for criticism due to the content they host. I can’t recall any major social platform whose moderation has been consistently praised by traditional media.

The media coverage of Meta's moderation efforts has been particularly negative for most of its history. Interestingly enough, Meta was also the first social media company to have reached a trillion-dollar-plus valuation.

Telegram will likely have to go through similar growth stages before it surpasses legacy platforms. As we rapidly rise in scale and significance, we shall solve any potential challenges the same way we do everything else — with efficiency, innovation and respect for privacy and freedom of speech.

Todas las grandes aplicaciones de redes sociales son blanco fácil de críticas debido al contenido que albergan. No recuerdo ninguna plataforma social importante cuya moderación haya sido elogiada constantemente por los medios tradicionales.

La cobertura mediática de los esfuerzos de moderación de Meta ha sido particularmente negativa durante la mayor parte de su historia. Curiosamente, Meta también fue la primera empresa de redes sociales que alcanzó una valoración de más de un billón de dólares.

Es probable que Telegram tenga que pasar por etapas de crecimiento similares antes de superar las plataformas heredadas. A medida que crezcamos rápidamente en escala e importancia, resolveremos cualquier desafío potencial de la misma manera que hacemos todo lo demás: con eficiencia, innovación y respeto por la privacidad y la libertad de expresión.

💰 Last week, we issued $330M worth of bonds to ensure Telegram can keep expanding at an accelerated speed.

This bond offering was oversubscribed, and we were delighted to have global funds of the highest caliber with impeccable reputations as participants. The terms of the bonds (when adjusted for the Federal Reserve rate) were the most favorable for Telegram in the history of our company.

I am proud that every time we issue bonds we get better at this process. The increased demand for our bonds shows that global financial institutions value Telegram’s growth in audience and monetization. This will further solidify our position as an independent platform that is able to challenge the “Goliaths” of our industry.

🍿 Big Telegram update with 8+ new features is out.

The bot platform is entering a new era with the ability to add bots that can seamlessly manage personal and business accounts. All bot developers are welcome to check out the APIs and start building.

The rest of the new Business features are just as juicy. My personal favorite is the ability to customize the empty chat with you (I’ve always wanted to replace the “No messages here yet…” text with something more fun and add a sticker I like).

There are several features in today’s update that we haven’t described in the official blog, so soon we’ll publish another post to cover all that is new. It seems we are adding features faster than we can describe them 🚘 😂