🙃 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! 😮
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. 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. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. "The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." But Telegram says people want to keep their chat history when they get a new phone, and they like having a data backup that will sync their chats across multiple devices. And that is why they let people choose whether they want their messages to be encrypted or not. When not turned on, though, chats are stored on Telegram's services, which are scattered throughout the world. But it has "disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments," Telegram states on its website.
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