unlike whatsapp, we are working hard on new year, and as usual, we are the firsts to leak the breaking info😎

🔥 telegram official blog updated 🔥

1⃣ INLINE BOTS https://tg-me.sbs/blog/inline-bots

2⃣ GIF REVOLUTION https://tg-me.sbs/blog/gif-revolution

▶️ join the new official bot channel @botNews

#inline #bots #gifs

✳️ UPDATES | INLINE BOTS & GIFS ✳️

Why Telegram is not updated yet?

Telegram is currently waiting for iOS app store approval. Features are ready, but they need to make them available simultaneously (because otherwise a lot of people we'll be seeing this "unavailable" message - all gifs are auto converted to mp4), and the app store approval is the slowest one.

#bots #updates #gifs

✳️ BOTS | PAYMENT API ✳️

Telegram to roll out Inline Bots. Payment coming soon?

As Telegram's bot platform becomes increasingly important for the young messenger network, Telegram now takes it one step further: Users can now interact with bots even if they are not part of an existing chat (including group chats). Is this already part of Telegram's upcoming payment platform?

Telegram payments are currently being tested in Russia.

Monetizing bots and eventually the platform itself could possibly be achieved through payments handled through Telegram. However, handling payments requires a cooperation with a bank at some point.

In Russia, where payments are currently being tested, the local online bank Tinkoff is bringing mobile payments to Telegram users through its @MoneyTalkBot.

However, it is currently unclear when and if international payments will be available to all Telegram users.

via https://orat.io/blog/telegram-to-roll-out-inline-bots-payment-coming-soon/

#bots #updates #payment

❗️Clarification: Sorry folks, we mentioned PAYMENT API, but @MoneyTalkBot is not using the Telegram Payment API. They are using their own payment system.

We apologize for providing incorrect information emoji.wink But to be honest, the orat post talking about the new API and mixing things confused us.

The Tinkoff Bank payment system via @MoneyTalkBot was released on November 30:

In Russian: https://www.tinkoff.ru/about/news/30112015-telegram-tinkoff-bot/
In English: http://appleapple.top/tinkoff-bank-launched-a-bot-in-messenger-telegram-for-money-transfer/

Telegram update for Inline bots & GIFS are now on the stores!

🆕 new button coming: Autoplay GIFs

✳️ CENSORSHIP | SAUDI ARABIA ✳️

Telegram's traffic limited in Saudi Arabia

#censorship

✳️ CENSORSHIP | SAUDI ARABIA ✳️

Internet providers are limiting telegram traffic.

#censorship

✳️ PRIVACY | INSTANT MESSAGING ✳️

European Court rules bosses can monitor employees' private messages on WhatsApp and other messaging services

According to the court, it’s “not unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours”. The judge dismissed the employee’s right to privacy on his messenger and ruled that what he sent could be monitored by his boss.

➡️ What you can’t do:
Use work equipment and accounts to send non-work related messages, like the fired Romanian employee.

➡️ What you can do:
Carry on using your own private accounts. Thankfully law from the European Court of Human Rights isn’t completely enforced over here, it just has to be taken into account.

via http://thetab.com/2016/01/13/your-boss-is-now-allowed-to-monitor-your-whatsapp-messages-68859

#privacy #im #censorship

You can now build accurate ratings and charts for content shared via your inline bot.

Simply send /setinlinefeedback to @BotFather to receive updates on which of the results provided by your bot got chosen by its users.

To give just one example, you could use this data to return the top-10 most popular results when a user first types your bot's username in the input field (i.e., as an answer to an empty request).

More info here:
https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/inline#collecting-feedback
This update:
https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/api#recent-changes

✳️ TELEGRAM | APPS ✳️

🔥 Telegram Login 🔥

Telegram Login allows users to login into websites via telegram messenger, like other platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn, AOL, Vimeo, FourSquare, OpenID...

http://telegramgeeks.com/2016/01/telegram-login

#telegram #login #apps #web #integration

🚀 Telegram has roughly 100 million monthly active

✳️ December 2014 -> 50M
✳️ May 2015 -> 62M
✳️ January 2016 -> 100M

20% of users are iranian

🚀 TELESEED BOT TUTORIAL 🚀

Manage your groups with Teleseed

telegramgeeks.com/2016/01/teleseed-tutorial/

#teleseed #bot #tutorial #group

🚀 TUTORIALS | TELESEED 🚀

TELESEED BOT TUTORIAL

telegramgeeks.com/2016/01/teleseed-tutorial/

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your own bot to manage groups using TeleSeed: Teleseed is an advance Group Administration Bot based on yagop telegram-bot licensed under GPL. It’s very easy, and it will help you managing your groups.

This tutorial is divided in three parts:

🌐 Part 1: Installation
🌐 Part 2: Running the bot
🌐 Part 3: Admin commands


#teleseed #bot #tutorial #groups

WhatsApp next update:

- Enable "End to end Encryption"
- "Share my Account Info with Facebook"

#whatsapp

whatsapp future: reach larger audiences (sounds like telegram channels...)

✳️ TELEGRAM | HACKS ✳️

🔧 Supergroups Hack 🔧

🔥 With this hack you will be able to upgrade your normal group to a supergroup.

http://telegramgeeks.com/2016/01/hack-howto-upgrade-groups-to-supergroups/

#telegram #supergroups #groups #hacks

✳️ WHATSAPP | BETA ✳️

Whatsapp beta got a new feature which allows users to send documents.

➡️ This comes along with a new section in the UI for the management of these files, a Documents tab.

via http://diggletech.digolodollarz.co.zw/2016/01/24/whatsapp-share-data-facebook-free-document-support-encryption/

You are late as usual, whatsapp 😉

#whatsapp #documents #beta

✳️ IDEAS | CONCEPT ART ✳️

Telegram redesign for OS X (idea, not official)

https://www.behance.net/gallery/23140813/Telegram-Redesign