Gifts. Users can send gifts to each other – celebrating holidays and achievements with animated artwork and custom messages.
Gifts are purchased with Telegram Stars – recipients can choose to display gifts on their profile or convert them back to Stars for their own balance.
To send a gift, open the user's profile and tap ➕/➕> Send a Gift. When sending a gift you can hide your name – making it so only the recipient is able to see who sent it.
Gifts. Users can send gifts to each other – celebrating holidays and achievements with animated artwork and custom messages.
Gifts are purchased with Telegram Stars – recipients can choose to display gifts on their profile or convert them back to Stars for their own balance.
To send a gift, open the user's profile and tap ➕/➕> Send a Gift. When sending a gift you can hide your name – making it so only the recipient is able to see who sent it.
However, the perpetrators of such frauds are now adopting new methods and technologies to defraud the investors. Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. Elsewhere, version 8.6 of Telegram integrates the in-app camera option into the gallery, while a new navigation bar gives quick access to photos, files, location sharing, and more. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea.
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