❎ TELEGRAM | APPLE BLOCKING ❎

Apple forces Telegram to block @vkmusic_bot

http://telegramgeeks.com/2015/12/apple-forces-telegram-to-block-a-music-bot/

#apple #censorship #iOS

Hack to avoid iOS block: Just add the bot into a group. | #hack via @paquebot developer

💥 BREAKING! | WHATSAPP BLOCKING IN BRAZIL💥

http://telegramgeeks.com/2015/12/justice-determines-whatsapp-lock-in-brazil-for-48-hours/

#brazil #blocking #whatsapp #48H

🚀 TELEGRAM | 500.000 NEW USERS IN BRAZIL 🚀

🤘The Official Telegram twitter account informs that 'more than 1.000.000 new users joining Telegram from Brazil today and growing. If you've just joined, check this out: https://t.co/x1haKyjvzQ '

🚨 Two guys rescued thanks to Telegram 🚨

Even better news :)
http://telegramgeeks.com/2015/12/two-guys-rescued-thanks-to-telegram/

✳️ ANDROID |TIPS ✳️

📱 Recurring Notifications on Android 📱

❗️ Problem: When you have unread personal messages, Android notifications will repeat every hour until you open the message.

✅ Solution: Go to Settings -> Notifications and Sounds -> Repeat Notifications and select a repeat period or turn repeated notifications off altogether.

#tips #android

✳️ INSTANT MESSAGING | BRAZIL ✳️


WhatsApp finally shuts down in Brazil for 12h and 5.7M users move to Telegram

Although the suspension has finally lasted for 12 hours (and not 48h), it's been awesome for Telegram: 5.7 Million users joined Telegram just in one day!

http://telegramgeeks.com/2015/12/whatsapps-shutdown-in-brazil-telegram-record-new-users/

#brazil #whatsapp #record

✳️ POLITICS | SPAIN ✳️

📱 Telegram Penetration 📱

👥 One of our followers sent us this information:

In Spain, podemos (political party) is using Telegram instead of WhatsApp.
http://www.estrelladigital.es/articulo/espanha/podemos-usan-telegram-y-no-whatsapp/20150605171822241951.html

#spain #politics #podemos

✳️ POLITICS | SPAIN ✳️

📱 Telegram Penetration 📱

👥 From another follower:

They have their own Telegram client: PodemosGram
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger.podemosgram

#spain #politics #podemos

Edward Snowden and Pavel Durov had a discussion about Telegram.

✳️ Our two cents about this:

➡️ Telegram never stores cloud chats in plaintext on the servers. They are encrypted.
➡️ Encryption keys are stored in a different facility in a different jurisdiction for each data center.
➡️ BUT if some intruder breach the security of all servers/facilities he will be able to access to your messages.
➡️ So Snowden is right about this: If you want full privacy, you should always use end-to-end encryption (keys are only stored on your device and never on telegram servers).

Fun fact: Long gone are the days when Pavel Durov offered Edward Snowden a job at Vkontakte.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/05/technology/social/snowden-vkontakte/

✳️ INTERNET | CENSORSHIP ✳️

Error 451: The new HTTP code for censorship

On Friday, the group responsible for Internet standards, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), approved a new HTTP code to differentiate between Web pages which cannot be shown for technical reasons and others which are unavailable for non-technical reasons, such as governmental censorship.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/error-451-the-new-http-code-for-censorship/

#internet #http451 #censorship

Telegram next update will let you manage automatic GIF/music download with mobile data or Wi-Fi

✳️ GOOGLE | BOTS ✳️

Google is building a new mobile-messaging with bots

Google is building a new mobile-messaging service that taps its artificial intelligence know-how and so-called chatbot technology to try to catch rivals including Facebook Inc.

For its new service, Google, plans to integrate chatbots, software programs that answer questions inside a messaging app.

Google is pursuing a similar goal with its messaging service, the people familiar with the plan said. Instead of typing a query into Google's search engine, users will type questions as text messages, to which chatbots will respond. Google will likely let outside developers build chatbots to run on the service, one of the people said. Google would steer users to specific chatbots, much as its search engine directs users to relevant websites. The move is strategic, because messaging apps and chatbots threaten Google's role as the Internet's premier discovery engine.


Full article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-new-smarter-messaging-app-1450816899

If you can't because you see this: To read the full story subscribe or just copy and paste the URL into google, click on the first link and voila.

#google #bots #messaging

✳️ GOOGLE | BOTS ✳️

BTW, do you remember the acquisition attempt that Pavel Durov was talking about at Techcrunch?

This answers the question about that:

In October, Mr. Fox offered to buy 200 Labs Inc., a small startup that builds chatbots, but the firm declined the offer, according to two people familiar with the situation. 200 Labs developed a marketplace and rating service for chatbots on Telegram, a messaging app that offers hundreds of chatbots, devoted to subjects like the weather, image search, news and dating. 200 Labs is working on technology that will choose the best chatbot to respond to a request.

They are talking about http://storebot.me/

#google #bots #messaging #storebot

✳️ TELEGRAM | CALLS & VIDEO CALLS ✳️

Is Telegram planning to add calls or video calls like whatsapp?

Directly from the FAQ:

We specialize in sending messages, large media and files (and we do this better than anyone out there). There are still many things that we can revolutionize in messaging. And messaging is obviously trending at the moment, so our focus remains in that area for now.

While voice and video calls may seem attractive, we do not consider them to be part of the core messaging experience. And since both these features require considerable resources in terms of time, work and maintenance. We'd rather use all that energy to bring you a fast, secure and reliable messenger, capable of transferring large files, syncing across many devices and keeping you happy without those pesky incoming calls.

https://tg-me.sbs/faq#q-can-i-make-calls-or-video-calls-via-telegram

#calls #videocalls #whatsapp #voip

✳️ TELEGRAM | STATUS MESSAGES ✳️

Is Telegram planning to add status messages for users?

Directly from the FAQ:

Status messages in messengers are a legacy of their desktop past. Studies show that modern users rarely use status messages for any practictical purposes. This data is also confirmed by our gut feeling. So it is rather unlikely that we will be adding them.

But here's an idea: if there is a certain group of friends that you would like to notify of changes in your status, it may be fun to create a group with all of them and send those messages to that group.

#status #messages

Trello board used by Telegram Support.

Trello cards used by Telegram Support.

✳️ TELEGRAM | SUPPORT ✳️

This is the Trello board that TSF (Telegram Support Force) uses to track of bugs, features and user suggestions.

Trello cards may have labels. The following labels are possible on the issues board:

➡️ Orange: Our developers know about this issue and will or will not fix it eventually.
➡️ Yellow: We can't reproduce the bug, need more details on what is happening and when.
➡️ Purple: This issue will be fixed in the upcoming public release and is already gone in the beta.
➡️ Mint green: A version with the fix was already sent to the relevant Store.
➡️ Blue: It is either impossible to fix this (platform restrictions, etc.), or this is how we want it to work.
➡️ Green: The issue can be resolved simply by updating to the latest public version of the app.
➡️ Black: This is a frequent issue, we're getting many complaints about it.
➡️ Cyan:The issue was reviewed by a bug herder and reported to the developer. All we can do now is wait and report any new occurrences in the comments (don't forget the #tq tags).
➡️ Red: This card is longer needed and is scheduled for deletion. Please don't delete it manually, we'll take care of it.

#support #tsf #tsi #trello