🙃 This is the biggest update in the history of Mini Apps: full-screen mode, home screen shortcuts, geolocation, motion tracking, media sharing, document creation, gift sending, subscription tiers, emoji statuses — and much more 😎
🕺 To explore some of these new features, update Telegram and check out these early examples:
Tiny Verse opens in full-screen, which looks great on desktops and tablets. Make sure to swipe and zoom to admire the 3D effects 😊
Playdeck's task section now features an "Add to Home Screen" option — and a flying Yeti that moves based on your device’s orientation 😙
Major has added a custom loading screen and the new Major Maze mini-game, where you can guide a rolling ball by tilting your phone 😎
😏 This is just the beginning — all discovered within the first day of Mini Apps 2.0's launch! 😮
🙃 This is the biggest update in the history of Mini Apps: full-screen mode, home screen shortcuts, geolocation, motion tracking, media sharing, document creation, gift sending, subscription tiers, emoji statuses — and much more 😎
🕺 To explore some of these new features, update Telegram and check out these early examples:
Tiny Verse opens in full-screen, which looks great on desktops and tablets. Make sure to swipe and zoom to admire the 3D effects 😊
Playdeck's task section now features an "Add to Home Screen" option — and a flying Yeti that moves based on your device’s orientation 😙
Major has added a custom loading screen and the new Major Maze mini-game, where you can guide a rolling ball by tilting your phone 😎
😏 This is just the beginning — all discovered within the first day of Mini Apps 2.0's launch! 😮
"Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government.
from ar
