Espero que los acontecimientos de agosto contribuyan a que Telegram (y la industria de las redes sociales en su conjunto) sea más segura y más fuerte. Gracias de nuevo por vuestro cariño y vuestros memes 🙏

🎉 Telegram has reached 10 million paid subscribers. 10 million people are now enjoying Telegram Premium!

🆕 Today, we’re introducing new features while phasing out a few outdated ones.

⛔️ We’ve removed the People Nearby feature, which was used by less than 0.1% of Telegram users, but had issues with bots and scammers.

🛍 In its place, we will be launching “Businesses Nearby”, showcasing legitimate, verified businesses. These businesses will be able to display product catalogs and accept payments seamlessly.

✂️ We’ve also disabled new media uploads to Telegraph, our standalone blogging tool, which seems to have been misused by anonymous actors.

☝️ While 99.999% of Telegram users have nothing to do with crime, the 0.001% involved in illicit activities create a bad image for the entire platform, putting the interests of our almost billion users at risk.

✊ That’s why this year we are committed to turn moderation on Telegram from an area of criticism into one of praise.

🎉Telegram ha alcanzado los 10 millones de suscriptores de pago. ¡10 millones de personas ya disfrutan de Telegram Premium!

🆕 Hoy presentamos nuevas funciones y eliminamos algunas que estaban obsoletas.

⛔️ Hemos eliminado la función Personas cercanas, que era utilizada por menos del 0,1 % de los usuarios de Telegram, pero tenía problemas con bots y estafadores.

🛍 En su lugar, lanzaremos “Negocios cercanos”, que mostrará negocios legítimos y verificados. Estos negocios podrán mostrar catálogos de productos y aceptar pagos sin problemas.

✂️ También hemos desactivado la carga de nuevos archivos multimedia a Telegraph, nuestra herramienta de blogs independiente, que parece haber sido mal utilizada por actores anónimos.

☝️ Si bien el 99,999% de los usuarios de Telegram no tienen nada que ver con el crimen, el 0,001% involucrado en actividades ilícitas crea una mala imagen para toda la plataforma, poniendo en riesgo los intereses de nuestros casi mil millones de usuarios.

✊ Es por eso que este año nos hemos comprometido a convertir la moderación en Telegram de un área de crítica a una de elogio.

Ucrania prohíbe el uso de Telegram a militares y funcionarios del gobierno.

Telegram actualmente es la mayor fuente de información en Ucrania y Rusia, pero el gobierno no permite ahora el uso ni instalación de la aplicación para militares ni políticos ya que según el Servicio de Ciberseguridad Ucraniano podría estar siendo utilizado por el enemigo con fines de guerra.

🔎 Search on Telegram is more powerful than in other messaging apps because it allows users to find public channels and bots. Unfortunately, this feature has been abused by people who violated our Terms of Service to sell illegal goods.

💪 Over the last few weeks, a dedicated team of moderators, leveraging AI, has made Telegram Search much safer. All the problematic content we identified in Search is no longer accessible. If you still manage to find something unsafe or illegal in Telegram Search, please report it to us via @SearchReport.

🚫 To further deter criminals from abusing Telegram Search, we have updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, ensuring they are consistent across the world. We’ve made it clear that the IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate our rules can be disclosed to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.

☝️ These measures should discourage criminals. Telegram Search is meant for finding friends and discovering news, not for promoting illegal goods. We won't let a few thousand bad actors jeopardize the integrity of our platform for almost a billion users.

Durov gana “1 dirham de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos al año”, aproximadamente 0,27 dólares. Así respondió a la policía de París cuando le preguntaron por sus ingresos, dejándolos desconcertados.

El plan podría haber funcionado y el juez redujo el importe de la fianza original 4 veces, hasta 5 millones de euros.

Los activos financieros personales de Pavel Durov, compuestos por criptomonedas y acciones, se estiman entre 9 y 15,5 mil millones de dólares.

📰 My previous post may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works. But in reality, little has changed.

🌐 Since 2018, Telegram has been able to disclose IP addresses/phone numbers of criminals to authorities, according to our Privacy Policy in most countries.

⚖️ Whenever we received a properly formed legal request via relevant communication lines, we would verify it and disclose the IP addresses/phone numbers of dangerous criminals. This process had been in place long before last week.

🤖 Our @transparency bot demonstrates exactly that. This bot shows the number of processed requests for user data.

✉️ For example, in Brazil, we disclosed data for 75 legal requests in Q1 (January-March) 2024, 63 in Q2, and 65 in Q3. In India, our largest market, we satisfied 2461 legal requests in Q1, 2151 in Q2, and 2380 in Q3.

📈 In Europe, there was an uptick in the number of valid legal requests we received in Q3. This increase was caused by the fact that more EU authorities started to use the correct communication line for their requests, the one mandated by the EU DSA law. Information about this contact point has been publicly available to anyone who viewed the Telegram website or googled “Telegram EU address for law enforcement” since early 2024. 

🤝 To reduce confusion, last week, we streamlined and unified our privacy policy across different countries. But our core principles haven’t changed. We’ve always strived to comply with relevant local laws — as long as they didn’t go against our values of freedom and privacy.

🛡 Telegram was built to protect activists and ordinary people from corrupt governments and corporations — we do not allow criminals to abuse our platform or evade justice.

Debido a los recientes acontecimientos en Medio Oriente, particularmente en Israel, Líbano e Irán, Telegram experimentó cargas sin precedentes. En los últimos días, es posible que algunos usuarios hayan enfrentado problemas de conexión temporales y dificultades para acceder a los medios. Gracias a los esfuerzos de nuestro equipo técnico, Telegram permaneció disponible en la mayoría de los países y todos los problemas ahora están completamente resueltos. Pedimos disculpas por cualquier inconveniente.

🔜 While we patiently wait for Google to approve the latest Telegram update, let’s take a break for some nostalgia 👨‍🦳

❤️ Here’s my eldest daughter instructing me on how to launch Telegram in the summer of 2013. She’s the real brain behind this whole thing, folks ☕️

🥳 The holiday season (which includes my birthday 😏) is just around the corner, and today we are launching Gifts!

🎁 Gifts are a great way to congratulate your loved ones on important events. Gift recipients can choose to display them on their profiles or sell them for Stars ⭐

📦 Some gifts are in limited supply. Later this year we’ll introduce the ability to convert these limited-edition gifts into TON-based NFTs. Users will then be able to auction and trade these tokenized gifts outside Telegram, with ownership recorded on the blockchain 🔗

🔜 We also launched other exciting features today, which I’ll cover in a separate post. For now, I’ll let you dive into the gift selection process 🫴🙂

🏷 Yesterday we introduced two limited-edition gifts. Both have now sold out. The entire supply of 🍭500,000 lollipops and 🌸100,000 cherry blossoms was gone within hours 😮

⚡️ We didn’t expect that to happen so fast, so we’re now working on an update to better handle sold-out items 👨‍💻

🛒 Should we introduce more limited-edition gifts? ❓

🫡📊 And here’s another poll.

👵 As I approach my 40th birthday, I realize I have many life stories to tell. Should I start posting them here? 📝

#lifestories

On the 27th of August 2024, I was still in the police station in Paris. It was my third day there. With no devices or internet access, it felt like an extreme digital detox.

That day I was having my regular hours-long interview with the police. Between the questions, I asked my lawyer if my ❤️ Julia would come for questioning too. He said she was expected to, but couldn’t come. I pressed him on the reasons. “Got scared? Left Paris?”, I asked. He hesitated. “She’s pregnant,” he finally said.

It was not the answer I expected at that moment. I remained calm throughout my time in police custody, but this turn of events caught me off guard. After a pause, I said: “Thank you for the good news”. Other people present — the translator, the clerk, the policeman — produced awkward smiles.

I later learnt that the police didn’t know how to break the news of Julia’s pregnancy to me. The circumstances were not exactly celebratory. Julia was alone in a foreign country she’d never been to before. No one knew when I would be able to talk to her again.

Luckily, I was released late in the evening the next day. As I entered the rooftop terrace of the place Julia was staying at, magnificent fireworks erupted right in front of me. Below, the opening ceremony of the Paralympics had just begun.

But the mood was not festive. I learnt that while I was away, the pressure on Julia had been insane. Some blogger started a rumor that she was a “Mossad agent.” Other people came up with the nonsensical idea that it was her posts (and not my chartered flight details) that had prompted the police to welcome me at the airport.

With her devices confiscated, she couldn’t access her accounts on Telegram and Instagram for weeks. Her going radio silent on social media provoked even more speculation. Cyber-bullying aimed at her kept reaching new highs.

Julia stood strong. But, unlike me, she wasn’t used to hostility. She is not made for war.

Two days ago, she was visiting the doctor who monitored her pregnancy. I was in the middle of my 12-hour work day when Julia sent me “😭😭😭” from the doctor’s office. I instantly knew what was wrong.

#lifestories

El 27 de agosto de 2024, todavía estaba en la comisaría de policía de París. Era mi tercer día allí. Sin dispositivos ni acceso a Internet, me sentí como si estuviera haciendo una desintoxicación digital extrema.

Ese día tenía mi habitual entrevista de varias horas con la policía. Entre las preguntas, le pregunté a mi abogado si mi ❤️ Julia también vendría al interrogatorio. Me dijo que se esperaba que viniera, pero que no podía venir. Le insistí para que me explicara los motivos. “¿Se asustó? ¿Se fue de París?”, pregunté. Dudó. “Está embarazada”, dijo finalmente.

No era la respuesta que esperaba en ese momento. Mantuve la calma durante todo el tiempo que estuve bajo custodia policial, pero este giro de los acontecimientos me tomó por sorpresa. Después de una pausa, dije: “Gracias por la buena noticia”. Las otras personas presentes —el traductor, el empleado, el policía— esbozaron sonrisas incómodas.

Más tarde me enteré de que la policía no sabía cómo comunicarme la noticia del embarazo de Julia. Las circunstancias no eran precisamente festivas. Julia estaba sola en un país extranjero en el que nunca había estado antes. Nadie sabía cuándo podría volver a hablar con ella.

Por suerte, me dieron el alta al día siguiente por la tarde. Cuando entré en la terraza de la azotea del alojamiento donde se alojaba Julia, estallaron unos magníficos fuegos artificiales justo delante de mí. Abajo, acababa de empezar la ceremonia de apertura de los Juegos Paralímpicos.

Pero el ambiente no era festivo. Me enteré de que, mientras estuve fuera, Julia había estado bajo una presión demencial. Un bloguero difundió el rumor de que era una “agente del Mossad”. A otras personas se les ocurrió la absurda idea de que fueron sus publicaciones (y no los datos de mi vuelo chárter) las que habían llevado a la policía a recibirme en el aeropuerto.

Tras la confiscación de sus dispositivos, no pudo acceder a sus cuentas de Telegram e Instagram durante semanas. Su silencio absoluto en las redes sociales provocó aún más especulaciones. El acoso cibernético contra ella siguió alcanzando nuevos niveles.

Julia se mantuvo firme, pero, a diferencia de mí, ella no estaba acostumbrada a la hostilidad. No está hecha para la guerra.

Hace dos días, ella estaba visitando al médico que controlaba su embarazo. Yo estaba en medio de mi jornada laboral de 12 horas cuando Julia me envió un mensaje de texto desde el consultorio del médico. Supe al instante qué era lo que me pasaba.