Telegram servers went down again for 1H

Countries reporting the issue:

✳️ Italy
✳️ Netherlands
✳️ Spain
✳️ Belgium
✳️ Poland
✳️ France
✳️ Switzerland
✳️ Argelia
✳️ Nigeria
✳️ UK

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Telegram official response

🔥 New beta feature 🔥
New 'Edited' message caption
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📝 If you have "Sign messages" option enabled, users won't see the edited caption

❓RUMORS | It is true that Google will buy Telegram for 1 Billion Dollars? ❓

Today we woke up with some news pointing that Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, met with Pavel Durov (founder of Telegram) to propose the purchase of TG for $1 Billion
Well, from Telegram Geeks we'd like to say that this is not gonna happen, Pavel has made clear on many occasions that Telegram aspires to become a sustainable nonprofit tool.

↘️ In conclusion, could be true that Google would like to buy Telegram? Yes, we have no doubt, already tried buying WhatsApp in the past and we all know that Hangouts is not "the best" app...
This means that Pavel will sell Telegram? We're 99.99% sure that this will not happen.

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💥 @Durov has already published this tweet. We are 100% sure now...

So much bullshit on the Internet, don't trust everything you read out there, guys!

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🔐 Two Step Verification. It allows you to set up a password that will be required every time you log into your account from a new device – in addition to the code you get in the SMS.

We recommend (a lot) to set up this verification (2FA)

telegram.org/blog/sessions-and-2-step-verification

#telegram #security

Somebody logged into Telegram accounts of some Russian opposition activists

Russian activists Georgy Alburov (member of Anti-corruption Foundation) and Oleg Kozlovsky (member of Solidarnost movement) found their Telegram accounts accessed from same NY IP address.

They did not have two-factor authentication enabled

📃 Read more:
https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2016-April/012958.html

From Telegram twitter:

Verification codes may be delayed due to overload on the SMS Gateways' side, they're working on it. Please wait, the codes will come!

This massive overload is because whatsapp got banned (again) on Brazil for 72h.

Telegram and Whatsapp are trending topic on Brazil.

Remember that Brazil is blocking access to WhatsApp for 72 hours (the ban started 1h ago).

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Right now WhatsApp and Telegram are worldwide TT.

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1M users joined Telegram in the first hour of Brazilian Whatsapp blocking.

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Meanwhile in Brazil...
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