When you land in Barcelona, you’re technically arriving at an airport located near a small town called El Prat, which the airport is named after. Once in a while, when I’m in Barcelona, I like to visit El Prat (it’s just a 20-minute bus ride) and walk a small trail that leads from the town to the beach. The trail also runs along the back of the airport runway, allowing you to see planes landing up close. The following photos are all taken on Sunday.
When you land in Barcelona, you’re technically arriving at an airport located near a small town called El Prat, which the airport is named after. Once in a while, when I’m in Barcelona, I like to visit El Prat (it’s just a 20-minute bus ride) and walk a small trail that leads from the town to the beach. The trail also runs along the back of the airport runway, allowing you to see planes landing up close. The following photos are all taken on Sunday.
What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” "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. In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation." Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai.
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