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People from some countries of Latinamerica and Europe reported us that WhatsApp is down at this moment... problem? 😝

WhatsApp coming back again in US and some parts of Europe!

Bot API v.2.1. is here. We've added support for edited messages and new mentions from Telegram 3.9., and introduced a handful of new methods for group administrator bots.

Your bot can now get a list of administrators in a group, know how many members there are in a group and check a user's current status (administrator, creator, left the group, kicked from the group).

If a group starts getting on your bot's nerves, the bot can now leave it using the new leaveChat method.

Check out the full changelog here:
https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/api#recent-changes

Bots @vote and @like already work in groups. Not in channels yet.

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It can be anything — a text, photo, video, even a sticker.

🆒 @geeksChat

📊 Most used IM Apps.

Ok Iranians, you rock.
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We got interviewed by World Channels!

Here is the full interview:
https://telegram.me/WorldChannels/273

Thanks to @WorldChannels, it was a great experience! 😎

📊 IDEA | Secondary Pinned messages. It would be cool if we'd be able to pin a secondary message from @vote & @like bots. Necessary for those groups with permanent pinned rules!
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✳️ TELEGRAM | HACKS ✳️

Researchers hack Telegram accounts through SS7 protocol

White Hackers from Positive Technologies shown how to exploit SS7 protocol to login into Telegram accounts by intercepting SMS messages.

In order to avoid this, we strongly recommend turning on two-step verification for Telegram.

PS: They’re attacking the SS7 vulnerability, this is not a Telegram problem.

http://telegramgeeks.com/2016/06/researchers-hack-telegram-accounts-ss7-protocol/

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#telegram #security #hacks #SS7

📊 TELEGRAM | REFERENDUM 📊

A spanish town (Quart de Poblet, population: 25k) will hold a referendum via Telegram to decide the name of 8 streets with the bot @QuartVotaBOT.

🏆 So maybe this is the first governmental referendum via Telegram of the history.

More info (in spanish)

➡️ Arranca el proceso para cambiar ocho calles franquistas de Quart de Poblet

➡️ Official Announcement

Guess which messenger we'd choose?
Always the blue pill 😎

ℹ️ As you might know, there are some spammers scamming blocked users, asking them to forward messages to 10 groups in order to get unblocked. They are supplanting Telegram by saying "Telegram Team".

👎 And we don't like that kind of scams, so today, we want to ask you to report this channels:

▶️ @anti_report_ir
▶️ @username
▶️ https://telegram.me/joinchat/DemJDj9WYw4feHeni575TA

‼️ Never trust this kind of messages, Telegram will never ask you to forward messages to get unblocked.

BTW, if you know how to forward a "massage" please send one to us 😎

✳️ APPLE | BLOCKING ✳️

🚫 Today @SaveVideoBot has been blocked on Apple devices due to Apple’s claims of copyright infringement.

This is not the first bot blocked by Apple’s claims. On December 2015 Apple forced Telegram to block VK music bot

As we wrote on December, there is a simple hack to avoid this blocking:

1⃣ Add the blocked bot to a group.
2⃣ Talk with him like a normal bot.
3⃣ Profit 😎

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Thanks to @xenial for the screenshoots

🚫 Today @SaveVideoBot has been blocked on Apple devices due to Apple’s claims of copyright infringement.

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But there is a simple hack to avoid this blocking:

1⃣ Add the blocked bot to a group.
2⃣ Talk with him like a normal bot.
3⃣ Profit 😎

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TSI (Telegram Support Initiative) has been updated with this cool art from Andrei Yakovenko 😎

https://torg.tg-me.sbs/tsi

PS: Only the image was updated, the text still the same.

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