Telegram is formally rolling out Tales to all customers, the corporate introduced on Monday. The function first launched to Premium customers final month, and is now out there to everybody on the platform. In the present day’s announcement comes as Telegram is celebrating its tenth birthday.
One main issue that units Telegram’s new function other than Tales on different platforms is the truth that customers have the choice to edit them after posting. On platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, Fb and TikTok, you don’t have the choice to edit a Story as soon as it’s stay. If you wish to change one thing, it’s important to delete the Story after which begin once more. Telegram is taking a unique method with its Tales function.
“For the primary time within the historical past of social media, you may replace any aspect of your story at any time – altering its visibility, caption, on-screen textual content, stickers or anything – with out having to delete and repost it from scratch,” Telegram wrote in a weblog put up.
The remainder of Telegram’s Tales expertise is much like these on different platforms.
You’ll be able to select to have your Tales viewable by everybody, your contacts, a number of chosen contacts or an inventory of shut associates. Tales shall be positioned in an expandable part on the high of your chat checklist. You’ll be able to disguise Tales posted by any contact by shifting them to the “Hidden” checklist in your Contacts part as a substitute of the principle display screen.
Customers can select when their story expires. As an example, you may have it expire in six, 12, 24 or 48 hours. Or, you may completely show Tales in your profile web page in a means that’s much like how Instagram allows you to show Story highlights. As well as, you may add captions and hyperlinks to your Tales. There’s additionally the choice to tag different individuals in your Tales. Plus, it is possible for you to to put up pictures and movies taken with the entrance and rear cameras concurrently in a BeReal-like model.
Though Tales are actually out there to all customers and simply not paid customers, Telegram remains to be providing Premium customers a perk in relation to Tales. Premium customers can allow a function referred to as Stealth Mode that erases their views from any tales they opened up to now 5 minutes, and hides what they view for the subsequent 25 minutes.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov mentioned again in June that customers had been asking for Tales for years. The corporate was initially towards including Tales as a result of they “are already all over the place,” however wished to hearken to its customers, Durov had mentioned on the time.