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{Disarmed} Telegram got 70 million new users during WhatsApp outage

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Monday afternoon the world seemed to have stood still for a few hours. The Facebook cosmos was offline for almost 7 hours, Facebook, its Messenger and Instagram and WhatsApp were no longer available. It was the longest Facebook outage ever. But one could be happy, Telegram. Apparently, the competing chat app Telegram was able to gain 70 million new users during this time. 70 MILLION. This has now been confirmed by the CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov in a Telegram post: "Telegram's daily growth rate is an order of magnitude better than the norm, and we have welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day. I am proud of the way our team handled this unprecedented growth as Telegram continued to function flawlessly for the vast majority of our users. " Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO At the same time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg is said to have lost about $ 6 billion. Well, he'll be able to get over it, about 120 billion are still there. Still, I am ...

{Disarmed} Telegram 8.0.1 released with new features

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Telegram 8.1 has been released and has new features on board. The new version allows you to set different color themes for individual chats, record video and audio during live broadcasts and display detailed read receipts in small groups. Color themes in chats Telegram offers numerous functions to organize your chats and customize their appearance. Starting with chat folders to animated backgrounds. In this update, coordination and decoration with new topics for individual chats come together. Our designers have created eight themes that can be applied to a specific private chat. Each of the new color themes features colorful gradient message bubbles, animated backgrounds, and unique background patterns. You and your chat partner can choose the color theme for both sides and make every conversation easily recognizable. This way you can set different color themes for chats with colleagues and family members so that you don't accidentally send the video to your boss again....

{Disarmed} Telegram 8.1 released with new features

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Telegram 8.1 has been released and has new features on board. The new version allows you to set different color themes for individual chats, record video and audio during live broadcasts and display detailed read receipts in small groups. Color themes in chats Telegram offers numerous functions to organize your chats and customize their appearance. Starting with chat folders to animated backgrounds. In this update, coordination and decoration with new topics for individual chats come together. Our designers have created eight themes that can be applied to a specific private chat. Each of the new color themes features colorful gradient message bubbles, animated backgrounds, and unique background patterns. You and your chat partner can choose the color theme for both sides and make every conversation easily recognizable. This way you can set different color themes for chats with colleagues and family members so that you don't accidentally send the video to your boss again....

{Disarmed} Telegram abused by hackers for data exchange

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Telegram has seen a rush of new users in recent months due to the changed WhatsApp terms of use. In the meantime, however, there are unfortunately also many who spread wild conspiracy theories or crooks and criminals also use Telegram. Telegram and its encrypted chats are now used by criminals, terrorists and various users for illegal purposes. The messaging app has become a hub for cyber criminals. Telegram has now developed into an alternative to the dark web. Details of the illegal use were uncovered by a group called Cyberint in collaboration with the Financial Times. The investigation discovered an ever-growing network of hackers. The data is reportedly shared on channels that sometimes have tens of thousands of subscribers. The tool is used by hackers and other cyber criminals in part because it is hardly moderated and is easy to use. According to Cyberint analysts, the use of Telegram by hackers has increased by 100 percent. The very good encryption is a main reason c...

{Disarmed} Telegram: Latest beta brings read receipts for groups

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Group chats make a lot of things easier. To make it even easier, there is a new function in the latest Telegram Beta. With this you can now see who has seen a certain message in a group chat and who has not. Telegram's latest beta now supports group read receipts. So from now on you always know exactly who has seen a certain message in a thread. Subsequent comments point out that only group chats with fewer than 50 recipients are supported, which is to prevent the lists from getting too long. On the desktop, you can right-click on a message to see who saw it. On Android, you can bring up the same menu with a long press. It is unclear if and when this feature will be available in the stable version of Telegram. Because so far opinions have been rather divided. Let's see how the developers behind the messenger will decide. s): reddit The post Telegram: Latest beta brings read receipts for groups first appeared on xiaomist's blog .