Telegram is formally rolling out Tales to all customers, the corporate introduced on Monday. The characteristic first launched to Premium customers final month, and is now out there to everybody on the platform. At the moment’s announcement comes as Telegram is celebrating its tenth birthday.
One main issue that units Telegram’s new characteristic other than Tales on different platforms is the truth that customers have the choice to edit them after posting. On platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, Fb and TikTok, you don’t have the choice to edit a Story as soon as it’s dwell. If you wish to change one thing, you must delete the Story after which begin once more. Telegram is taking a unique method with its Tales characteristic.
“For the primary time within the historical past of social media, you’ll be able to replace any factor of your story at any time – altering its visibility, caption, on-screen textual content, stickers or the rest – with out having to delete and repost it from scratch,” Telegram wrote in a weblog put up.
The remainder of Telegram’s Tales expertise is just like these on different platforms.
You possibly can select to have your Tales viewable by everybody, your contacts, just a few chosen contacts or an inventory of shut pals. Tales shall be positioned in an expandable part on the prime of your chat checklist. You possibly can cover Tales posted by any contact by transferring them to the “Hidden” checklist in your Contacts part as a substitute of the principle display screen.
Customers can select when their story expires. As an example, you’ll be able to have it expire in six, 12, 24 or 48 hours. Or, you’ll be able to completely show Tales in your profile web page in a manner that’s just like how Instagram permits you to show Story highlights. As well as, you’ll be able to add captions and hyperlinks to your Tales. There’s additionally the choice to tag different folks in your Tales. Plus, it is possible for you to to put up images and movies taken with the entrance and rear cameras concurrently in a BeReal-like model.
Though Tales at the moment are out there to all customers and simply not paid customers, Telegram continues to be providing Premium customers a perk in terms of Tales. Premium customers can allow a characteristic referred to as Stealth Mode that erases their views from any tales they opened prior to now 5 minutes, and hides what they view for the following 25 minutes.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov mentioned again in June that customers had been asking for Tales for years. The corporate was initially towards including Tales as a result of they “are already in every single place,” however wished to hearken to its customers, Durov had mentioned on the time.