Telegram is launching its personal model of Tales, the ephemeral combined media format made common by Snapchat and copied by each social media app beneath the solar.
The chat app’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov shared the information(opens in a brand new tab) in his Telegram channel on Monday.
“For years, our customers have been asking us to implement Tales in Telegram. Greater than half of all characteristic requests that we obtain are associated to Tales,” he wrote. In line with Durov, the corporate was initially in opposition to including the characteristic as Tales are “already in all places,” however modified its thoughts and determined to take heed to its customers and launch Tales within the “Telegram means.”
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Telegram’s model of the Story characteristic consists of granular privateness controls, twin digital camera help, help for captions, and the flexibility to set when the Story will expire or to go away it completely out there.
Tales will make Telegram profiles extra informative and colourful, Durov stated, whereas channels will profit from extra publicity and subscribers as soon as the corporate launches the flexibility to repost channel messages to tales.
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In line with Durov, even these on Telegram crew who opposed the characteristic have began to understand it following inside checks. “We are able to now not think about Telegram with out it,” he wrote.
Telegram Tales are at present of their “final testing section” and can change into out there in early July.