✳️ Telegram v 3.9 ✳️

EDIT MESSAGES, NEW MENTIONS AND MORE

- Edit your messages everywhere within 2 days after posting.
- Mention people in groups by typing @ and selecting them from the list — even if they don't have a username.
- Get to your friends faster with the new People list in Search.
- Find inline bot shortcuts in the attachment menu.
- Add chat shortcuts to home screen.

Also in this update:
- Added quick sharing buttons to forwarded messages from channels and public groups.
- Notifications about messages with stickers now show the relevant emoji.

More: https://telegram.org/blog/edit

Telegram is testing reactions with the new @like bot

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😎 Moar WhatsApp reactions...
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Google launches a new messaging app called Allo:

A learning messaging app focussed on expression, google assistant and security. Allo will have mobile and desktop.

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✳️ More features about Allo:

▶️ Its main feature is a Google assistant that's built right in. The new conversational interface you can use to get information from Google. You can set up a conversation with google and ask it all sorts of questions.

▶️ There's also an Incognito Mode — similar to Incognito Mode on Chrome. When you enable it, your conversation is encrypted end-to-end and Google can't read it at all.

▶️ Google's chatbot is smarter than other chatbots. It has the power of Google's Knowledge Graph, which understands many thousands of "entities" and how they relate to each other.

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via The Verge

Durov wrote something about 'Allo'
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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://core.telegram.org/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