Encrypted messaging platform Telegram on Friday introduced the roll-out of a brand new Story characteristic on its platform. The brand new characteristic will enable premium customers of the app to publish tales that may be seen by the viewers of their selection, together with non-premium customers. The Story characteristic is now accessible within the newest model of Telegram for Android, iOS, and Desktop.
The brand new characteristic will seem on the high of the display screen, proper above the worldwide chat search, which can enable customers to share photographs, movies, and textual content that disappear after 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours, or might be set to stay completely on the consumer’s profile. Customers can individually select individuals who can see the story.
Telegram’s Tales will even assist twin digicam performance, enabling customers to seize photographs and movies concurrently with each the entrance and rear cameras. Furthermore, premium customers can add extra options to their tales, akin to animated stickers, polls, and quizzes, permitting premium customers to create extra partaking and interactive tales.
The Story characteristic on Telegram is just like these on a number of Meta merchandise, akin to Fb, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
In the meantime, Telegram has raised $210 million from a number of buyers by way of bond gross sales. The buyers embody its founder and CEO Pavel Durov. John Hyman, Telegram’s Chief Funding Adviser, advised TechCrunch that the platform raised the capital by issuing bonds price $270 million as a result of “rates of interest have gone up considerably since 2021, the bonds have a special concern value”.
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