Prime Highlights:
Users can gift one-of-a-kind, customized digital collectibles which include over 1,400 designs from Homemade Cake and Jelly Bunny to Santa Hat, are available.
New quick reaction options allow users to express themselves with just two taps when joining groups, starting video chats, or sending gifts.
Further advance filters make it pretty easy to find a specific message among conversations.
Key Background:
Telegram has brought a series of updates to ring in the New Year, aiming to fine-tune the user experience, develop new features for easier interaction, increase the discovery of content, and provide improved security for messages. Some of the updates include several new reactions, more effective search filters within messages, and third-party verification systems in order to minimize scams.
A fresh blog post released by Telegram introduces collectible gifts and non-fungible token functionality. Through this, it is now possible for users to share “works of art” with others in the form of unique digital collectibles as gifts, with the option of even auctioning at NFT marketplaces. Besides, these presents are customizable with randomized appearances, creations of Telegram artists, and additional traits like customized icons, numbers, and background colors. Among the items that can be upgraded are Homemade Cake, Jelly Bunny, Spiced Wine, and Santa Hat. The update brings over 1,400 unique appearances; however, the future holds many more designs in store.
Apart from the cool collectible gift options, users on Telegram can respond to messages more easily. Be it joining a group, starting a video chat or sending gifts, addition of reactions for messages is a two-tap affair that contributes to better flows on this website. It also enhanced search functionality within an application, so with new filters, one may view particular messages in your chat’s way more efficiently. Filters also offer better and more exact ways of restoring older messages or conversations without any scrolling.
The platform has increased security, scam countermeasures, and features a new third-party verification where unique icon is added on the users and their chats from public figures and organizations besides the official services-instead of traditional blue checkmarks. This will help differentiate the real from the probably scammed accounts; therefore, it aids to make different group of users feel safe and trusted while using the various Telegram community.
Telegram has made it even easier to navigate by introducing a QR code scanner into the in-app camera. This means users can open links directly in their preferred browser, without bouncing between different applications. The update comes as Telegram announced it has generated $1 billion in revenue and is making its first profit ever.
