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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🤖 New Telegram Challenge – Android Camera 🤖

Telegram announces an new challenge for developers. The task will be to create a light and easy photo and video interface for smartphones based on Android.

Requirements: Speed, stability on all Android-devices 4.1 and above, smooth animations...
The minimum prize fund will be 1 million rubles (~ $15.000).

📝 Read more:
telegramgeeks.com/2016/05/new-telegram-challenge-create-light-easy-photo-video-interface-android

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#telegram #contest #android #camera

❓ Hi guys, some of you are asking if the contest is only for Russian, Belorussian and Ukraine developers.

We think so, 22nd of April Durov wrote this:
https://vk.com/wall1_968724

Here he told about Russia, Belarus and Ukraine only (and prizes are in roubles)
However, later there was no info about country restrictions.

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Telegram is benefiting a lot from WhatsApp’s ban in Brazil. Over 7M users signed up for Telegram within the last 24h. Wow.

✅ Brazilian court restores WhatsApp service after blackout order

A Brazilian judge has overturned the country's blackout of the WhatsApp texting service, restoring service to over 100 million people in the country.
The reversal comes just one day into the mandated blackout period, which was initially scheduled to last for 72 hours. The blackout order specifically targeted Brazilian wireless carriers, which were forbidden from transmitting WhatsApp data for the duration of the blackout period.

Any carrier found violating the order would have been fined (~ $140,000).

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Tweet from Jan Koum (CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp).

Is he talking about Telegram?

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🤖 COMSTATBOT - Perfect analytics for groups 🤖

Here we go with a very useful Bot for Telegram Groups lovers, we present you @ComstatBot – It makes analytics and visualization for Telegram group chats!
Yeah, supported by a beautiful website where you’ll be able to check all statistics of every single group registered. We do love such a clean interface, BTW

Bot | @ComstatBot
Website | comstatbot.xyz
@geeksChat Stats | Link

📝 Read more:
telegramgeeks.com/2016/05/comstatbot-perfect-analytics-groups

#Telegram #Bot #Group #Analytics

🚀 Telegram bot API updated:

- Know the emoji a sticker corresponds to.
- Added forward field when message comes from a channel.

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Now the iOS Beta got the feature to edit messages on private chats.

#telegram #beta #features

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💡 Did u know?

Telegram servers delete all markdown sent by users except Pre and Code.

Formatting by bold, italic and hyperlinks is not expected from users.

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@vote

we can't confirm if this bot is official, but seems that will be next Telegram inline poll bot.

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@vote still on beta and share to users/groups not working yet

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Telegram updated Bot API to add consistency to what messages bots get in groups and supergroups:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq#what-messages-will-my-bot-get

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Telegram Beta:

Improved search layout.

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