Why use Telegram?
Telegram is a social chat platform that provides speed, security and accuracy to your conversations and data, which is free to use. Telegram has registered more than 500 million active users. With help of Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and documents, as well as create groups for up to 200,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences. This mainly focus on, protecting your private conversations and personal data from third parties.
Telegram groups is a major advantage of using Telegram. Telegram groups support upto 200,000 members providing them with powerful communication tools. The powerful communication includes Smart Notifications: where you can mute the group notification but only get notification when you are mentioned or you get reply to a message. You can make any group public, toggle persistent history to control whether or not new members have access to earlier messages and appoint administrators with granular privileges. Not to mention about the Telegram channel where you can reach upto million audiences. When you post in a channel, the message is signed with the channel's name and photo and not your own. Each message in a channel has a view counter that gets updated when the message is viewed, including its forwarded messages.
The change in WhatsApp new privacy policy as made many users to switch to Telegram or Signal. Telegram is a better alternative for WhatsApp.
Better alternative for WhatsApp
WhatsApp is probably most used social media platform, which is owned by Facebook. WhatsApp is free to use, but what really matters is privacy. Privacy Policy is about what data WhatsApp collects and how this might affect you. Telegram is open source and free, anyone can check its source code, protocol and API. Telegram supports verifiable builds, which allow experts to independently verify that its code published on GitHub is the exact same code that is used to build the apps you download from App Store or Google Play.
Unlike WhatsApp, Telegram is a cloud-based messenger platform, which means you can send documents and message from different device simultaneously. Telegram needs less than 100 MB on your device to keep all your documents/data in the cloud without deleting it. Private messaging on Telegram is free and will stay free no ads, no subscription fees. One thing which makes Telegram unique is, a Bot API, a platform for developers that allows them to build a specialized tools for Telegram, integrate any services, and even accept payments from users around the world.
Telegram API's
The protocol is designed for access to a server API from applications running on mobile devices. Since Telegram is open source it provides API's, which users can use for free. This API allows you to connect bots to Telegram. Telegram Bots are special accounts that do not require an additional phone number to set up. Telegram offers two kinds of APIs for developers. The Bot API allows you to create programs that use Telegram messages for an interface. Telegram Database Library (TDLib) allow you to build your own customized Telegram clients.
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Learn more about the Bot API here.
Learn more about TDLib here.
Telegram for entertainment
As mentioned before,Telegram offers wide range of groups and channel. A Telegram channel brings millions audiences together, giving access them to download and store data in cloud. All the data which is stored are heavily encrypted and the encryption keys in each case are stored in several other data centers in different jurisdictions.
All the channels are usually public, public chats are cloud chats, the data you post in public communities is encrypted, both in storage and in transit, but everything you post in public will be accessible to everyone.
This public chats can include videos, documents, and message as well. With help of public channels, you might find thousands of channels to watch Movies, Web Series and Anime for free. It also acts as an alternative for Netflix and Amazon Prime. This channels are created by individuals/groups who share the data locally, and the end users can access to it anytime. You might find many movies in Telegram which are shared by different channels. Not just this, you can also join public channels related to Tech, News, Facts, Linux Techtips, and many tutorial based channels.
Telegram Features
Telegram provides Secret Chat features. Secret chats use end-to-end encryption. This means that all data is encrypted with a key that only you and the recipient know. There is no way anybody could access or track the data which is sent in Secret chats. Telegram developers do not store secret chats on their servers. Neither do they keep logs for messages in secret chats. Due to this secret chats are not available in the cloud services, you can only access those messages from the device they were sent to or from, and If you log out and in again, you will lose all your Secret Chats. The chats other than Secret chats are stored securely in cloud, so that you can access your data from any of your devices anytime without having to rely on third-party services.
The location shared in the chat is treated like the normal messages in cloud or secret chats. In case if you share live location or turn on Make Myself Visible, Telegram will use your data to display your location to only those users whom you want to share. You can deactivate this anytime.
To conclude, Telegram maily focus on user privacy and keeps it secure at any cost from third party platforms. So feel free to explore it, try out Bot API and enjoy entertainment and educational based channels. Telegram uses phone numbers while registering as unique identifiers so that it is easy for you to switch from SMS and other messaging apps and retain your social graph. Telegram does ask your permission before syncing your contacts, so which shows how concerned it is when it comes to security.
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