Pavel Durov

Meet the most powerful polls tech in social media. Telegram's update packs a dozen new features: 🗳 Attach photos, videos & audios to options 💡 Let users suggest new options in active polls 🔐 Disable revoting for fixed results 😃 Shuffle options per user ⏱ Set time limits on polls 👀 Show who voted next to each option 📊 View results without voting 🔔 Get notified when someone votes 📂 View all polls in groups / channels 🫣 Hide results until the poll ends 🧠 Add correct answers and explanations for wrong picks 🔜 We're already working on more — 📊 polls stats, plus options to limit voting to channel subscribers or users from selected countries. Bot rigging of polls in large channels became a massive issue, and we're building the tools to stop it. 🛡

🔄 Your massive monthly Telegram update is out. 🧠 100% private AI Editor for your outgoing messages. 🗳 The most powerful polls in any messenger (+12 new features). 🖼 Support for Live Photos & Motion Photos. 🤖 Ability for [AI] Bots to create [AI] Bots for users — in one tap. 📹 Demos: Ссылка скрыта

😎 Telegram was banned in Russia — yet 65M Russians still use it daily via VPNs, with 50M+ sending messages every day. The government has spent years trying to ban VPNs too. Their blocking attempts just triggered a massive banking failure — cash briefly became the only payment method nationwide yesterday. 😂 🧊 Iran banned Telegram years ago, with a result similar to Russia. The government hoped for mass adoption of its surveillance messaging apps, but got mass adoption of VPNs instead. Now 50M members of the Digital Resistance in Iran are joined by 50M+ more in Russia. 😙 🤝 Welcome back to the Digital Resistance, my Russian brothers and sisters. The entire nation is now mobilized to bypass these absurd restrictions. Thousands are building VPNs and proxies. On our end, we’ll keep adapting — making Telegram’s traffic harder to detect and block. ✊

💸 Telegram has fully repaid the bonds we issued 5 years ago. 🎆 💰 Since 2021, we’ve built an innovative monetization strategy and reached profitability in 2024. As a result, our new bond issuance last year was oversubscribed. 💪 🙏 Thank you for your support!

📝 All Telegram chatbots can now stream responses to users in real time — great for AI assistants.

🎆 Unfortunately, I had to leave Dubai for Europe a week ago — so I’m not only missing the free fireworks from Iran, but also exposing myself to greater risk. Given Europe’s crime rates, Dubai is statistically safer even with missiles flying. Can’t wait to be back. ➕ In addition to a new war, there’s also a new Telegram update. New features > new war 😏 What’s 📢📢: Member Tags, Login with Telegram, Disable Sharing, GIF Editing, Date Formatting, Voting Timestamps, Streaming Responses for Bots. Check it out: Ссылка скрыта

💣 Russia has opened a criminal case against me for “aiding terrorism.” Each day, the authorities fabricate new pretexts to restrict Russians’ access to Telegram as they seek to suppress the right to privacy and free speech. A sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people. 🤦♂️

😎 Telegram built the most powerful API for chatbot and mini app developers — and made it free. 😙 We keep expanding it with features like these colored buttons and custom emoji. 😏 Track what’s new here: Ссылка скрыта

🔥Telegram for Android got its biggest redesign in 10 years. A few details to iron out, but it’s mostly complete — and already available to everyone.