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General Questions

Q: What is Tele gram? What do I do here?

Telegra m is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free.

You can use Telegr am on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers.

Telegra m has over 500 million monthly active users and is one of the 10 most downloaded apps in the world.

With Tel egram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc), as well as create groups for up to 200,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences.

You can write to your phone contacts and find people by their usernames.

As a result, Tele gram is like SMS and email combined — and can take care of all your personal or business messaging needs.

In addition to this, we support end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls, as well as voice chats in groups for thousands of participants.

Follow our Tips Channel to learn more about Tel egram features.

 

Q: Who is Teleg ram for?

Teleg ram is for everyone who wants fast and reliable messaging and calls. Business users and small teams may like the large groups, usernames, desktop apps and powerful file sharing options.

Since Telegra m groups can have up to 200,000 members, we support replies, mentions and hashtags that help maintain order and keep communication in large communities efficient.

You can appoint admins with advanced tools to help these communities prosper in peace.

Public groups can be joined by anyone and are powerful platforms for discussions and collecting feedback.

In case you’re more into pictures, Tele gram has animated gif search, a state of the art photo editor, and an open sticker platform (find some cool stickers here or here).

What’s more, there is no need to worry about disk space on your device.

With Telegram’s cloud support and cache management options, Tele gram can take up nearly zero space on your phone.

Those looking for extra privacy should check out our advanced settings and rather revolutionary policy.

And if you want secrecy, try our device-specific Secret Chats with self-destructing messages, photos, and videos — and lock your app with an additional passcode.

We keep evolving — check out our Brief History of Telegram and follow us on twitter and Telegram to stay in touch.

Q: How is Te legram different from WhatsApp?

Unlike WhatsApp, Telegram is a cloud-based messenger with seamless sync.

As a result, you can access your messages from several devices at once, including tablets and computers,

and share an unlimited number of photos, videos and files (doc, zip, mp3, etc.) of up to 2 GB each.

Telegram needs less than 100 MB on your device – you can keep all your media in the cloud without deleting things – simply clear your cache to free up space.

Thanks to Telegram’s multi-data center infrastructure and encryption, it is faster and way more secure.

On top of that, private messaging on Telegram is free and will stay free — no ads, no subscription fees, forever.

Telegram’s API and code is open, and developers are welcome to create their own Telegram apps.

We also have a Bot API, a platform for developers that allows anyone to easily build specialized tools for Telegram, integrate any services, and even accept payments from users around the world.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Follow our Tips Channel to learn more about Telegram features.

Q: How old is Tele gram?

Telegram for iOS was launched on August 14, 2013. The alpha version of Telegram for Android officially launched on October 20, 2013.

More and more Telegram clients appear, built by independent developers using Teleg ram’s open platform.