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Telegram (software)

December 24, 2023

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Telegram Messenger, commonly known as Telegram, is a cloud-based, cross-platform instant messaging (IM) service. It was originally launched for iOS on 14 August 2013 and Android in October 2013. It allows users to exchange messages, share media and files, hold private and group voice or video calls, as well as public livestreams. It is available for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and web browsers. Telegram provides end-to-end encryption in voice and video calls,[10] and in optional private chats, which Telegram calls Secret Chats.

Telegram
Screenshot
Telegram running on iOS, screenshot taken in 2019
Developer(s)Telegram FZ LLC
Telegram Messenger Inc.
Initial release14 August 2013; 10 years ago (2013-08-14)
Stable release(s) [±]
Android10.4.0[1]  / 21 December 2023; 3 days ago (21 December 2023)
iOS, iPadOS10.4.1[2]  / 21 December 2023; 3 days ago (21 December 2023)
Windows, macOS, Linux
(Telegram Desktop)		4.12.2[3]  / 1 December 2023; 23 days ago (1 December 2023)
macOS10.4[4]  / 23 December 2023; 1 day ago (23 December 2023)
Repository
  • github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
Written inDesktop: C++, C, Java, Python

Android: Java

iOS: Swift
PlatformAndroid, iOS, Windows, Windows Phone, macOS, Linux, Web platform, Wear OS, WatchOS
Available in66 (officially 12) languages[5][6]
List of languages
Chinese (Beta), English, Russian, Persian, Turkish, Italian, Arabic, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Japanese (Beta), Korean, Indonesian, Malay, Belarusian, Catalan, Polish, Finnish, Hebrew
TypeInstant messaging
LicenseGNU GPLv3 only with OpenSSL linking exception (clients),[7] proprietary (server)[8]
Websitetelegram.org
Telegram Messenger Inc.
FoundedMarch 2013; 10 years ago (2013-03)
HeadquartersTortola, British Virgin Islands
(legal domicile)[9]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
(operational center)
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)
CEOPavel Durov
IndustrySoftware
URLtelegram.org

Telegram also has social networking features, allowing users to post stories, create large public groups with up to 200,000 members, or share one-way updates to unlimited audiences in so-called channels.[11] The service also provides an open API for the creation of custom bots which can perform various tasks, integrate other services into Telegram chats, or work as mini apps.[12]

Telegram was founded in 2013 by Nikolai and Pavel Durov.[13][14] Its servers are distributed worldwide, while the headquarters are in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[15][16] Telegram is the most popular instant messaging application in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.[17][18]

As of August 2023, Telegram has more than 800 million monthly active users,[19] with India leading in the number of users.[20] It was the most downloaded app worldwide in January 2021[21][22] with 1 billion downloads globally as of late August 2021.

History edit

Development edit

Telegram was launched in 2013 by the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov. Previously, the pair founded the Russian social network VK, which they left in 2014, saying it had been taken over by the government.[23] Pavel sold his remaining stake in VK and left Russia after resisting government pressure.[24] Nikolai created the MTProto protocol that is the basis for the messenger, while Pavel provided financial support and infrastructure through his Digital Fortress fund.[25] Telegram Messenger states that its end goal is not to bring profit,[26][27] but it is not structured as a non-profit organization.[28]

Telegram is registered as a company in the British Virgin Islands[9] and as an LLC in Dubai.[29][30] It does not disclose where it rents offices or which legal entities it uses to rent them, citing the need to "shelter the team from unnecessary influence" and protect users from governmental data requests.[31] After Pavel left Russia in 2014, he was said to be moving from country to country with a small group of computer programmers consisting of 15 core members.[24][32] While a former employee of VK claimed that Telegram had employees in Saint Petersburg,[33] Pavel said the Telegram team made Berlin, Germany, its headquarters in 2014,[34] but failed to obtain German residence permits for everyone on the team and moved to other jurisdictions in early 2015.[33] Since 2017, the company has been based in Dubai.[35] It has a complex corporate structure of shell companies to delay complying with government subpoenas.[36]

Usage edit

In October 2013, Telegram announced that it had 100,000 daily active users.[25]

On 24 March 2014, Telegram announced that it had reached 35 million monthly users and 15 million daily active users.[37] In October 2014, South Korean government surveillance plans drove many of its citizens to switch to Telegram from the Korean app KakaoTalk.[34] In December 2014, Telegram announced that it had 50 million active users, generating 1 billion daily messages, and that it had 1 million new users signing up on its service every week,[38] traffic doubled in five months with 2 billion daily messages.[39] In September 2015, Telegram announced that the app had 60 million active users and delivered 12 billion daily messages.[40]

In February 2016, Telegram announced that it had 100 million monthly active users, with 350,000 new users signing up every day, delivering 15 billion messages daily.[41] In December 2017, Telegram reached 180 million monthly active users.[42] By March 2018, that number had doubled, with Telegram reaching 200 million monthly active users.[43]

On 14 March 2019, Pavel claimed that "3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours."[44] He did not specify what prompted this flood of new sign-ups, but the period matched a prolonged technical outage experienced by Facebook and its family of apps, including Instagram.[45] According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as of October 2019, Telegram had 300 million monthly active users worldwide.[46]

On 24 April 2020, Telegram announced that it had reached 400 million monthly active users.[47]

On 8 January 2021, Pavel announced in a blog post that Telegram had reached "about 500 million" monthly active users.[48] In August, TechCrunch reported that India was Telegram's largest market, with a 22% share of total installs coming from the region.[49] Telegram then gained over 70 million new users as a result of an outage which affected Facebook and its affiliates on 5 October, 2021.[50]

As of March 2022, Telegram's usage share had jumped to 63%, overtaking WhatsApp's usage share of 32% to become the most popular messaging app in Russia.[51] On 19 June 2022, Telegram announced that it had reached 700 million monthly active users.[52][53]

As of July 2023, Telegram has more than 800 million monthly active users.[19]

Features edit

Accounts edit

 
Account self-destruction
 
The user was limited.

Telegram accounts are usually tied to telephone numbers which are verified by SMS or phone call.[54] In December 2022, an update introduced the ability to sign up without a phone number and instead by using a +888 number purchased on the Fragment platform, which is linked to the user's TON wallet.[55] Account creation requires an iOS or Android device regardless of the platform intended to be used.[56][57] Users can add multiple devices to their account and receive messages on all of them. Connected devices can be removed individually or all at once. The associated number can be changed at any time and when doing so, the user's contacts will receive the new number automatically.[54][58][59] In addition, a user can set up a username as an alias that allows them to send and receive messages without exposing their phone number.[60] Telegram accounts can be deleted at any time and they are deleted automatically after six months of inactivity by default, which can optionally be changed from 1 month at the shortest up to 12 months at most with a range between. Users can replace exact "last seen" timestamps with broader messages such as "last seen recently".[61]

The default method of authentication that Telegram uses for logins is SMS-based single-factor authentication.[62][63] A one-time passcode that is sent via SMS to the user's phone number is required to log into the account by default.[63][64] Users also have the option to create a password as a form of two-step verification.[65] In late 2022 Telegram began testing, for a select number of users, the ability to receive their one-time code via email, as well as testing the integration of Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Google.[66]

Telegram allows groups, bots and channels with a verified social media or Wikipedia page to be verified but not user accounts.[67][68] In the past, exceptions have been made to have accounts verified, but this practice is no longer carried out.

Accounts of users who purchased Telegram's Premium subscription are marked with a star emoji, which the users can change to any emoji of their choice.[69]

Cloud-based messages edit

Telegram's default messages are cloud-based and can be accessed on any of the user's connected devices. Users can share photos, videos, audio messages and other files (up to 2 gigabytes per file). Users can send messages to other users individually or in groups of up to 200,000 members.[70] Sent messages can be edited up to 48 hours after they have been sent and can be deleted at any time on both sides. Messages in all chats, including groups and channels, can be set to auto-delete after 24 hours, 7 days or a month, although this will only apply to messages sent after the auto-delete timer is enabled.[71][72] People can react to messages, choosing from a range of emoji. A user can only send one reaction and tapping on any other reaction will switch to it. In groups, a list of people who reacted is available. Reactions are always on in personal chats but have to be enabled by the admin in groups and channels, fully or partially, with a smaller number of reactions chosen.[73]

Telegram offers drafts which sync across user devices, such as when a user starts typing a message on one device and can later continue on another. The draft will persist in the editing area on any device until it is sent or removed.[74] All chats, including groups and channels, can be sorted into custom folders set by the user. Users have the option to schedule messages in personal chats to be sent when the other side comes online.[75] Users can also import chat history, including both messages and media, from WhatsApp, Line and Kakaotalk due to data portability, either making a new chat to hold the messages or adding them to an existing one.[76][77]

The transmission of cloud messages to Telegram's servers is encrypted with the service's MTProto protocol, while 'Secret Chats' use end-to-end encryption based on the same protocol.[78] According to Telegram's privacy policy, "all data is stored heavily encrypted and the encryption keys in each case are stored in several other data centers in different jurisdictions. This way local engineers or physical intruders cannot get access to users' data".[79] Telegram's local message database is not encrypted by default.[80] Some Telegram clients allow users to encrypt the local message database by setting a passphrase.[81]

Telegram users can share their live location in a chat for either 15 minutes, one hour, or eight hours. If multiple users share their live location within a group, they are shown on an interactive map. Sharing the 'live location' can be stopped at any time.[82]

Secret chats edit

 
A "secret chat" confirmation notice – screenshot from iOS 16

Messages can also be sent with client-to-client encryption in so-called secret chats. These messages are encrypted with the service's MTProto protocol.[83] Unlike Telegram's cloud-based messages, messages sent within a secret chat can be accessed only on the device upon which the secret chat was initiated and the device upon which the secret chat was accepted.[25][78][84] Messages sent within secret chats can, in principle, be deleted at any time and can optionally self-destruct.[85]

Secret chats have to be initiated and accepted via an invitation, upon which the encryption keys for the session are exchanged. Users in a secret chat can verify that no man-in-the-middle attack has occurred by comparing pictures that visualize their public key fingerprints.[86]

According to Telegram, secret chats have supported perfect forward secrecy since December 2014. Encryption keys are periodically changed after a key has been used more than 100 times or has been in use for more than a week.[80] Old encryption keys are destroyed.[58][59][87]

Secret Chats are available only on the Android, iOS and macOS clients of the app.[88]

Groups and Channels edit

Telegram users can create and join groups and channels. Groups are large multi-user chats that support up to 200,000 members and can be public or private. Users can freely join public chats and find them using the in-app search function, while private chats require an invitation. They support flexible admin rights and can use bots for moderation to prevent spam and unwanted activity. Groups can be split into topics, effectively creating subgroups dedicated to various subjects with separate settings for each.[89]

Admins can choose to hide the list of members in a group, as well as post anonymously themselves.[90] Similarly, groups and channels can have content protection enabled, which prevents screenshots, forwarding and downloading of media.[91][92] Ownership of channels and groups can be transferred to one of the admins if the owner wishes to give up their rights.

Groups support threaded replies, where bringing up the context menu on a message allows one to open a screen with a thread of replies made to that message and the subsequent ones in the thread. Specific users can be tagged in the group by adding @username to a message, where “username” is that particular user’s username.

Groups and channels also support polls, which can be open or anonymous and can support multiple choices. When forwarded, polls retain the answer data and any votes cast in other chats will count toward the overall total.[93][94]

Channels are one-way feeds where the channel owner or admins can post content while followers can only read, react and comment, if comments have been enabled.[95][96] Channels can be created for broadcasting messages to an unlimited number of subscribers.[97] The list of those who subscribe to a channel can only be seen by its admins. Posting in the channel is anonymous, though admins can choose to add signatures to their posts. Channels offer detailed statistics on view counts, user growth and interactions, also visible only to admins.[98] Channel owners are able to use Telegram to create giveaways, randomly awarding channel members with prizes such as Telegram Premium subscriptions to their followers, based on certain criteria.[99] Users with a Telegram Premium subscription have a number of "boosts" that they can give to channels, which allow the channel to "level up" and unlock features, such as the ability to customize messages or post stories as the channel.[100]

In December 2019, Bloomberg News moved their messenger-based newsletter service from WhatsApp to Telegram after the former banned bulk and automated messaging.[101][102] Other news services with official channels on the platform include the Financial Times,[103] Business Insider[104] and The New York Times.[105]

Channels have also been used by governments and heads of state. Notable examples include Volodymyr Zelensky[106] and Emmanuel Macron.[107] Channels have been used by journalists in oppressive regimes to establish independent news networks.[108]

Video and voice calls edit

At the end of March 2017, Telegram introduced its own end-to-end encrypted voice calls. Connection is established as peer-to-peer whenever possible, otherwise the closest server to the client is used. According to Telegram, there is a neural network working to learn various technical parameters about a call to provide better quality of service for future uses.[109]

Telegram added group voice chats in December 2020.[110] Any group or channel admin can launch a chat, which will be open to all members and ongoing even if no one is currently using it. Admins can mute members by default or selectively as well as create invite links that will add people as muted by default. Members can use the Raise Hand button to signal their desire to speak. A push-to-talk option is available on mobile versions, as well as key shortcuts to mute and unmute oneself on Telegram Desktop. Admins of groups or channels have the option to join as their group or channel, hiding their personal account. Users can also record chats with a red dot shown as a warning during the recording period.[111]

Telegram announced in April 2020 that they would include group video calls by the end of the year.[112] On 15 August 2020, Telegram added video calling with end-to-end encryption.[113] Picture-in-picture mode is also available, giving the ability to use the other functions of the app during the call.[114] In June 2021, Telegram implemented group video calls across all of its clients. Users can stream video from their camera, share their screen or do both simultaneously.[115][116] Group calls have support for selective screen sharing, split screen view and improved noise suppression.[117] In July 2021, Telegram introduced the ability for up to 1000 people to watch the streamed video.[118] Livestreams support unlimited participants and third-party streaming software such as OBS Studio and XSplit, supporting custom interfaces and overlays.[119][120]

Bots edit

In June 2015, Telegram launched a platform for third-party developers to create bots.[121] Bots are Telegram accounts operated by programs. They can respond to messages or mentions, can be invited into groups, and can be integrated with other programs. Bots can also accept online payments made with credit cards or Apple Pay.[122] The Dutch website Tweakers reported that an invited bot can potentially read all group messages when the bot controller changes the access settings silently at a later point in time. Telegram pointed out that it considered implementing a feature that would announce such a status change within the relevant group.[123] There are also inline bots, which can be used from any chat screen. To activate an inline bot, a user must type the bot's username and a query in the message field. The bot then will offer its content. The user can choose from that content and send it within a chat.[124]

Bots can also handle transactions provided by Paymentwall, Yandex.Money, Stripe, Ravepay, Razorpay, QiWi and Google Pay for different countries.[125] Bots also power Telegram's gaming platform, which utilizes HTML5, so games are loaded on-demand as needed, like ordinary webpages. Games work on iPhones 4 and newer and on Android 4.4 devices and newer.[126]

People can use Internet Of Things (IoT) services with two-ways interaction for IFTTT implemented within Telegram.[127]

 
Test order receipt prior checkout through Telegram

In April 2021, the Payments 2.0 upgrade enabled bot payments within any chat, using third-party services such as Sberbank, Tranzoo, Payme, CLICK, LiqPay and ECOMMPAY to process the credit card information.[128]

In February 2018, Telegram launched their social login feature to its users, named Telegram Login. It features a website widget that could be embedded into websites, allowing users to sign into a third party website with their Telegram account. The gateway sends users' Telegram name, username, and profile picture to the website owner, while users' phone number remains hidden. The gateway is integrated with a bot, which is linked with the developer's specific website domain.[129]

In June 2021, an update introduced a new bot menu where users can browse and send commands while in a chat with a bot.[130]

In April 2022, bots gained support for customized interfaces and inline page loading. Interfaces can be adjusted to match the app's theme even if it is changed while interacting

Stickers and animated emoji edit

Telegram has more than 20,000 stickers. Stickers are cloud-based, high-resolution images intended to provide more expressive emoji. When typing in an emoji, the user is offered to send the respective sticker instead. Stickers come in collections called "packs", and multiple stickers can be offered for one emoji. Telegram comes with one default sticker pack,[131] but users can install additional sticker packs provided by third-party contributors. Sticker sets installed from one client become automatically available to all other clients. Sticker images use WebP file format, which is better optimized to be transmitted over the internet. The Telegram clients also support animated emoji.[130] In January 2022, video stickers were added, which use the WebM file format and do not feature any software requirements to create.[132] In September 2022, Telegram has given free users access to dozens of reactions, even some that were only previously available to Premium subscribers. In order to accommodate the new reactions, the reaction panel has been expanded and redesigned.[133]

People Nearby and Groups Nearby edit

People Nearby can help users meet new friends by turning on phone GPS location and opting-in contacts and through Groups Nearby people can create a local group by adding location data to groups.[134][135]

Stories edit

Similar to other social platforms, Telegram users can post stories, a type of short-form content. Telegram stories have several distinctive features, like a dual-camera mode, extra privacy settings, the ability to edit stories after posting them, as well as to rewind and fast-forward them while watching.[136][137][138]

Premium Features edit

Telegram Premium was launched on 19 June 2022 with regional pricing.[52][53] The optional paid subscription gives users increased limits in the app, such as larger file uploads, faster download speeds, unlimited voice message transcription,[139] as well as numerous other increases such as the number of pinned chats and folders. Premium users also have access to extra stickers, emoji, reactions, and customization features like a special badge and the ability to change the look of their messages in chats. Premium users also get access to additional settings, like instant chat translation, and the ability to restrict who can send them voice messages.[140][141]

As of 2023, Telegram Premium can be acquired via in-app purchases facilitated by Apple and Google, directly via Telegram’s @PremiumBot, or with cryptocurrency on the Fragment platform.[142] Users are able to purchase a subscription for themselves, or purchase a subscription for someone else to send as a gift. Premium subscriptions can also be won through official Channel Giveaways, in which Telegram channels pre-purchase a specific number of Premium subscriptions that are randomly given away to their subscribers.[143]

Related platforms edit

 
Telegraph article

People can use their Telegram accounts to author articles on Telegraph – a minimalistic text editor and publisher. While articles on Telegraph can be published anonymously, tying them to one's account allows one to check their view count and edit them later. Telegraph natively supports Instant View, a feature which lets users read full articles in the chat with no load time and without opening an external browser.[144][145][146]

When an article is first published, the URL is generated automatically from its title. Non-Latin characters are transliterated, spaces are replaced with hyphens, and the date of publication is added to the address. For example, an article titled "Telegraph (blog platform)" published on 17 November would receive the URL /Telegraph-blog-platform-11-17.[144]

Text formatting options are also minimal: two levels of headings, single-level lists, bold, italics, quotes, and hyperlinks are supported. Authors can upload images and videos to the page, with a limit of 5 MB. When an author adds links to YouTube, Vimeo, or Twitter, the service allows you to embed their content directly in the article.[147]

In February 2018, Telegram launched their social login feature to its users, named Telegram Login. It features a website widget that could be embedded into websites, allowing users to sign into a third party website with their Telegram account. The gateway sends users' Telegram name, username, and profile picture to the website owner, while users' phone number remains hidden. The gateway is integrated with a bot, which is linked with the developer's specific website domain.[148]

In July 2018, Telegram introduced their online authorization and identity-management system, Telegram Passport, for platforms that require real-life identification.[149] It asks users to upload their own official documents such as passport, identity card, driver license, etc. When an online service requires such identification documents and verification, it forwards the information to the platform with the user's permission. Telegram stated that it does not have access to the data, while the platform will share the information only with the authorized recipient.[150] However, the service was criticised for being vulnerable to online brute-force attacks.[151]

In December 2020, Telegram launched a Bugs and Suggestions platform,[152] where users can submit bug reports and suggestion cards for new features. Others can then vote and comment on the cards.

Architecture edit

Privacy edit

 
A simplified illustration of the MTProto encryption scheme

For encrypted chats (branded as Secret Chats), Telegram uses a custom-built symmetric encryption scheme called MTProto. The protocol was developed by Nikolai Durov and other developers at Telegram and, as of version 2.0, is based on 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption and Diffie–Hellman key exchange.[83][153]

MTProto 1.0 was deprecated in favor of MTProto 2.0 in December 2017, which was deployed in Telegram clients as of v4.6.[153]

Version 2.0 was proven formally correct in December 2020 by a team from the University of Udine, Italy. The team reviewed the protocol after realizing that they could only find in-depth verifications done of version 1.0, where most criticisms were levied. They used ProVerif, a verifier based on the symbolic Dolev-Yao model. In the published paper, they "provide a fully automated proof of the soundness of MTProto 2.0’s protocols for authentication, normal chat, end-to-end encrypted chat, and re-keying mechanisms with respect to several security properties, including authentication, integrity, confidentiality and perfect forward secrecy...MTProto 2.0 is assumed to be a perfect authenticated encryption scheme (IND-CCA and INT-CTXT)."[153][154] However, the team also stated that because all communication, including plaintext and ciphertext, passes through Telegram servers, and because the server is responsible for choosing Diffie–Hellman parameters, the "server should not be considered as trusted." They also concluded that a man-in-the-middle attack is possible if users fail to check the fingerprints of their shared keys. Finally, they qualified their conclusion with the caveat that "properties need to be formally proved in order to deem MTProto 2.0 definitely secure. This proof cannot be done in a symbolic model like ProVerif’s, but it can be achieved in a computational model, using tools like CryptoVerif or EasyCrypt."

Servers edit

As with most instant messaging protocols, Telegram uses centralized servers. Telegram Messenger LLP has servers in a number of countries throughout the world to improve the response time of their service.[155] Telegram's server-side software is closed-source and proprietary.[8] Pavel Durov said that it would require a major architectural redesign of the server-side software to connect independent servers to the Telegram cloud.[156]

For users who signed in from the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are supported by storing data only on servers in the Netherlands, and designating a London-based company as their responsible data controller.[157][158][159]

Clients edit

Telegram has various client apps, some developed by Telegram Messenger LLP and some by the community. Most of them are free and open-source and released under the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or 3. The official clients support sending any file format extensions. The built-in media viewer supports common media formats – JPEG, PNG, WebP for images and H.264 and HEVC in videos in MP4 container and MP3, FLAC, Vorbis, Opus and AAC for audio.

In 2021, the Telegram team announced a direct build of its Android app. Telegram for Android is available directly from the Telegram website.[160] It is automatically updated and will most likely get new versions faster than the apps in the Play Store and App Store.[161] A distinctive feature of this version is the ability to view channels/groups on a specific topic without censorship, which cannot be viewed from an app distributed from Google Play or the Apple Store due to their policies.[citation needed]

Common specifications:

  • No cloud backup option for secret chat
Name Platform(s) Official Source code license Support for secret chats Notes
Telegram Android Yes GPLv2 or later[162][163] Yes Supports tablets[164] and Wear OS smart watches.[165] Support synchronisation between multiple devices.
Telegram iOS and iPadOS Yes GPLv2 or later[162][166] Yes Launched in August 2013 for iPhone and iPod Touch and relaunched in July 2014 with support for iPad and Apple Watch.[167] No longer compatible with watchOS.
Telegram X Android[168] Yes[169] GPLv3 or later[170] Yes An alternative Telegram client written from scratch, with higher speed, slicker animations, themes and more efficient battery use.[171]

iOS version is written with Swift. Android version based on TDLib. The iOS version was discontinued, with its code merged with the main Telegram app.

Telegram Messenger Windows Phone Yes GPLv2 or later[162] Yes Provide synchronization between all platforms. No longer supported.
Telegram Desktop Windows, macOS, and Linux Yes GPLv3 with OpenSSL exception[172] No Qt-based desktop client. The Windows client is a traditional desktop app published in three flavors (with installer, portable, Windows Store app). The desktop version cannot be used anymore to register and log in, this feature is officially supported by the mobile app only.[57]
Telegram macOS Yes GPLv2[173] Yes Native macOS client.
Telegram Web A / Web K Web Yes GPLv3[174][175] No Two web-based versions of Telegram.[176] The web version cannot be used to register and log in, this feature is officially supported by the mobile app only.[177] The code for the legacy web client called Webogram is available as well, though this version is no longer supported.[178]

APIs edit

Telegram has public APIs with which developers can access the same functionality as Telegram's official apps to build their own messaging applications.[179] In February 2015, creators of the unofficial Whatsapp+ client released the Telegram Plus app, later renamed to Plus Messenger, after their original project got a cease-and-desist order from WhatsApp.[180][181] In September 2015, Samsung released a messaging application based on these APIs.[182]

Telegram also offers an API that allows developers to create bots, which are accounts controlled by programs.[183][184] Such bots are used, among other things, to emulate and play old games in the app and inform users about vaccine availability for COVID-19.[185][186]

In addition, Telegram offers functions for making payments directly within the platform, alongside an external service such as Stripe.

Business edit

The company was initially supported by its CEO's personal funds after the sale of his stake in VK. In January 2018, it launched a private placement and collected $1.7 billion from investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Benchmark.[187] After the shutdown of the TON project, the company needed to repay the investors the money that was not spent on its development during 2018 and the beginning of 2019, while the project was active.[188]

On 15 March 2021, Telegram conducted a five-year public bonds placement worth $1 billion. The funding was required to cover the debts amounting to $625.7 million, including $433 million to investors who bought futures for Gram tokens in 2018 and included purchasers such as David Yakobashvili.[189] On 23 March, Telegram also sold additional bonds worth $150 million to the Abu Dhabi Mubadala Investment Company and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners.[190] A day later, the Mubadala Investment Company stated that Russia's sovereign wealth fund participated in its deal undisclosed through the Russia-UAE joint investment platform to buy convertible bonds. A Telegram spokesperson stated: "RDIF is not in the list of investors we sold bonds to. We wouldn't be open to any transaction with this fund" and "[t]he funds that did invest, including Mubadala, confirmed to us that RDIF was not among their LPs [limited partners]."[191] According to the contract, the holders of the bonds will be provided with an option to convert them to shares at a 10% discount if the company conducts an open IPO.[192] The company's CEO has stated that the move aimed to "enable Telegram to continue growing globally while sticking to its values and remaining independent". According to press reports, prior to the bonds placement, Durov had rejected an investment offer for a 5–10% stake in the company as well as several undisclosed ones, valuing the company in a $30–40 billion range.[190]

Advertising and monetization edit

Telegram has stated that the company will never serve advertisements in private chats.[193] In late 2020, Durov announced that the company was working on its own ad platform, and would integrate non-targeted ads in public one-to-many channels, that already were selling and displaying ads in the form of regular messages.[194] Ads from Telegram's "Sponsored Messages" platform began to appear in channels with more than 1000 followers in October 2021.

In late 2020, Durov announced that Telegram will consider adding paid features aimed at enterprise clients. According to him, these features will require more bandwidth and the added cost will be covered by the feature prices, in addition to covering some of the costs incurred by regular users.[195]

Pay per view bots edit

In 2022, Telegram canceled a bot monetization upgrade program, because Apple demanded a cut.[196]

Telegram Open Network edit

Main article: Telegram Open Network

In 2017, in an attempt to monetize Telegram without advertising, the company began the development of a blockchain platform dubbed either "The Open Network" or "Telegram Open Network" (TON) and its native cryptocurrency "Gram". The project was announced in mid-December 2017[197] and its 132-page technical paper became available in January 2018.[198] The codebase behind TON was developed by Pavel Durov's brother Nikolai Durov, the core developer of Telegram's MTProto protocol.[199] In January 2018 a 23-page white paper[198] and a detailed 132-page technical paper[198] for TON blockchain became available.[200]

Durov planned to power TON with the existing Telegram user base, and turn it into the largest blockchain and a platform for apps and services akin to a decentralized WeChat, Google Play, and App Store.[201][202] Besides, the TON had the potential to become a decentralized alternative to Visa and MasterCard due to its ability to scale and support millions of transactions per second.[203][204] In January and February 2018 the company ran a private sale of futures contracts for Grams,[205] raising around $1.7 billion.[206][207][208][209] No public offering took place.[210]

The development of TON took place in a completely isolated manner, and the release was postponed several times.[211] The test network was launched in January 2019.[212] The launch of the TON main network was scheduled for 31 October.[213] On October 30, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a temporary restrictive order to prevent the distribution of Grams to initial purchasers; the regulator considered the legal scheme employed by Telegram as an unregistered securities offering with initial buyers acting as underwriters.[214]

The judge hearing the Telegram v. SEC case, P. Kevin Castel, ultimately agreed with the SEC's argument[215] and kept the restrictions on Gram distribution in force. The ban applied to non-U.S.-based purchasers as well, because Telegram could not prevent the re-sale of Grams to U.S. citizens on a secondary market, as the anonymity of users was one of the key features of TON.[216][217][218] Following that, Durov announced the end of Telegram's active involvement with TON. On 26 June, the judge approved the settlement between Telegram and SEC. The company agreed to pay an $18.5 million penalty and return $1.22 billion to Gram purchasers.[219] In March 2021, Telegram launched a bonds offering to cover the debt and fund further growth of the app.[189][192]

Criticism edit

Telegram has been used for spreading hate messages and illegal activities such as, illegal pornography, contact between criminals and trading of illegal goods and services such as drugs and stolen personal data.[220][221][222][223][224] According to Wired, Telegram "exercises virtually no content moderation, except to take down illegal pornography and calls for violence".[225]

IRGC edit

In Iraq and Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has used groups and channels for doxing citizens and warmongering propaganda.[226][227][228][229][230]

ISIS edit

In September 2015, in response to a question about the use of Telegram by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Pavel Durov stated: "I think that privacy, ultimately, and our right for privacy is more important than our fear of bad things happening, like terrorism."[231] Durov sarcastically suggested to ban words because terrorists use them for communication.[232] ISIS recommended Telegram to its supporters and members[233][234][235] and in October 2015 they were able to double the number of followers of their official channel to 9,000.[236] In November 2015, Telegram announced that it had blocked 78 public channels operated by ISIS for spreading its propaganda and mass communication.[237][238][239] Telegram stated that it would block public channels and bots that are related to terrorism, but it would not honor "politically-motivated censorship" based on "local restrictions on freedom of speech" and that it allowed "peaceful expression of alternative opinions."[240] ISIS's usage of Telegram reignited the encryption debate and encrypted messaging applications faced new scrutiny.[241][242]

In August 2016, French anti-terrorism investigators asserted that the two ISIS-directed terrorists who murdered a priest in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy, France, and videoed the murder, had communicated via Telegram and "used the app to coordinate their plans for the attack". ISIS's media wing subsequently posted a video on Telegram, showing the pair pledging allegiance. A CNN news report stated that Telegram had "become known as a preferred means of communication for the terror group ISIS and was used by the ISIS cell that plotted the Paris terror attacks in November" after the attacks.[233] Daily Mirror called Telegram a "jihadi messaging app".[243]

In June 2017, the Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor hinted at the possibility of a blocking of Telegram in Russia due to its usage by terrorists.[244]

In July 2017, Director General of Application and Informatics of the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, said eleven Telegram DNS servers were blocked because many channels in the service "promoted radicalism, terrorism, hatred, bomb assembly, civil attack, disturbing images, and other propaganda contrary to Indonesian laws and regulations."[245] In August 2017, Indonesia lifted the block after countermeasures against negative content were deployed in association with Telegram LLP.[246]

In November 2019, Telegram participated in Europol's Internet Referral Action Day.[247] As a result, Telegram expanded and strengthened its terrorist content detection and removal efforts. Over 43,000 terrorist-related bots and channels were removed from Telegram. According to U.S. officials, the crackdown on Telegram was especially effective and seemed to be having lasting impact.[248] According to Europol, Telegram put considerable effort into removing abusers of its platform.[247]

Far-right groups edit

The Anti-Defamation League has called Telegram a white supremacist "safe haven" and a valuable tool for right-wing extremists.[249] Miro Dittrich, a senior researcher for the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy (CeMAS), a German extremism monitoring agency, said: "Telegram has been critical for the far-right scene in Germany ever since the Identitarian movement migrated there in 2018, having been kicked off Facebook and Instagram."[250]

The neo-Nazi white separatist paramilitary hate group The Base switched to Telegram after being blocked on most social media platforms, including Twitter, YouTube and Gab. After a number of arrests of The Base members in January 2020, a note appeared on its official Telegram account warning people to stop posting.[251] In August 2019, white supremacist Christopher Cantwell posted anti-Semitic comments on Telegram.[252]

The Anti-Defamation League notes that Telegram was founded by the same two Russian brothers who founded VKontakte (VK), which is known for its lack of moderation when it comes to white supremacy. While Telegram's terms of service prohibit the promotion of violence, they have allowed livestreams of the Christchurch mosque shootings, 2022 Buffalo shooting and the Halle synagogue shooting, all of which were livestreamed by their perpetrators, although other social media platforms had removed them. The League also points to the RapeWaffen Division channel, which openly advocates rape and murder as part of a race war.[249]

Telegram has also been used by the alt-right organization Proud Boys to coordinate throughout the United States.[253] In the United Kingdom, Telegram is one of the main platforms for far-right publication TR.news, maintained by Tommy Robinson, and Britain First, whose pages were blocked by major social media platforms.[254] Weblinks related to these channels received more views on Telegram in 2018 and 2019 than some well-known mainstream news outlets, including The Guardian or the Daily Mail.[255] However, with a relatively small user base and no algorithmic timeline, such groups struggle to build a larger audience on Telegram.[255]

In January 2021, Telegram said that it blocked "hundreds" of neo-Nazi and white supremacist channels with tens of thousands of followers for inciting violence.[256][257] A 2021 Institute for Strategic Dialogue report on the far-right in Ireland found that messages from Irish far-right groups on the app increased from a total of 801 in 2019 to over 60,000 in 2020.[258]

On 27 August 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the 2021 United States Capitol attack demanded records from Telegram (alongside 14 other social media companies) going back to the spring of 2020.[259]

In January 2022, the British anti-disinformation organization Logically reported that Holocaust denial, neo-Nazism and other forms of hate speech were flourishing on the Discord and Telegram groups of the German website Disclose.tv.[260][250]

On 26 April 2023, Telegram was temporarily suspended throughout Brazil, and the company was fined R$1 million (2023) (US$185,528.76) daily for not complying with a Federal Police investigation into neo-Nazi activities on the platform. The company only partially fulfilled a court request for personal data on two anti-Semitic Telegram groups, which authorities considered an intentional lack of cooperation. The decision was made after a series of violent school attacks, with at least one incident being linked to exchanges on an anti-Semitic group.[261] The Telegram CEO then said that the requested data was technologically impossible to obtain.[262] A federal court lifted the suspension three days later, but upheld the daily fine.[263] Twelve days later, Telegram told its users that the Brazilian Congressional Bill No. 2630 against online disinformation, which was about to be approved, would end freedom of speech in the country.[264]

Child and teenage pornography edit

The app has been used for distribution of pornographic material, including child and teenage pornography.[265][266] Telegram's internal reporting system has an option to report content that contains 'Child Abuse', including specific messages in groups and channels. The company has a verified channel called "Stop Child Abuse", where daily statistics on the number of groups and channels banned for sharing illegal materials are posted. It also provides an email address dedicated to reports of content related to child abuse.[267][268]

In January 2021, North Macedonian media outlets reported that a now-banned Telegram group, with more than 7,000 members, titled "Public Room" ("Јавна соба") was used to share nude photos of women, often young teenage girls.[269] Along with the shared photographs, anonymous accounts shared private information of the women, including phone numbers and social media profiles, encouraging members of the group to contact the women and ask for sexual favours.[270] This was done without prior agreement or knowledge of the women, causing intense public backlash and demand for the group to be shut down. The President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski, along with the Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev, demanded an immediate reaction from Telegram and threatened to completely restrict access to the app in the country if no actions were taken.[271][272] The group was banned after reports from users and media, although no public statement was made.

Bot abuse edit

In 2021, a bot was found selling leaked phone numbers from Facebook.[273]

The chairman of the public organization "Electronic Democracy" Volodymyr Flents on 11 May 2020 announced that a Telegram bot appeared on the Web, which sold the personal data of Ukrainian citizens. It is estimated that the bot contains data from 26 million Ukrainians registered in the Diia application. However, subsequently, deputy prime minister and minister of digital transformation Mykhailo Fedorov denied any data from the app being leaked. The criminal activity of 25 people has already been confirmed and copies of 30 databases were seized.[274][275][276]

A Telegram bot was blocked by Apple in 2020 after posting deepfake pornography.[277]

Telegram reportedly banned more than 350,000 bots and channels in 2020, including those that contained child abuse and terrorism-related content.[278]

Myanmar military edit

Since the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, pro-junta and pro-military actors, including nationalists and military lobbyists, have exploited Telegram's lax content moderation approach to post violent and misogynistic content against resistance groups, including the National Unity Government, People's Defence Forces, and individuals supporting a return to democracy.[279][280] The move to Telegram was accelerated by Facebook and Instagram's ban of Myanmar military-linked accounts and ads following the coup.[281][282] These actors use Telegram to dox women, political and human rights activists, and journalists.[283][279] The targeted individuals then become a target for physical, sexual, and online harassment.[279][282] These accounts are used as intelligence sources by the Burmese military to track down and detain such individuals.[283] These pro-military accounts have also attacked independent media, disseminated military propaganda, and incited violence in the country.[284][280] In addition, Telegram is also pointed out to be used by fraud gangs in northern Myanmar assisted by the Myanmar military; they use Telegram to communicate and carry out telecommunications fraud for Mandarin speakers and human trafficking for mainland Chinese.[285]

In March 2023, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Telegram to allocate resources "to identify, prevent, and mitigate human rights abuses on its platform."[279] As of March 2023, Telegram had blocked at least 13 pro-military accounts.[279]

Fraudulent jobs edit

Telegram has received criticism for its failure to curb fraud on the platform. The most common mode of fraud involves scammers sending messages to unsuspecting users, offering part-time online jobs which comprise a series of tasks. Scammers employ a variety of confidence tricks to entice users into completing "prepaid tasks" in which users deposit money into scammers' accounts with the expectation of receiving high returns.[286][287]

In July 2023, Hyderabad Police uncovered a fraud wherein 15,000 Indian citizens were duped out of ₹712 crore (US$89 million) in less than a year, all related to "prepaid tasks" on Telegram; a cybercrime police investigation of the money trail revealed that the fraud originated from China and the money was laundered by mules through cryptocurrency wallets.[288][289]

In September 2023, the Singapore Police stated that more than 6,600 Singaporeans had lost over S$96.8 million (US$72.24 million) to prepaid job scams on Telegram and WhatsApp since the start of the year.[290]

Reception edit

Channels have been used by celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger[291] and politicians: President of France Emmanuel Macron,[292] former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro,[293] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,[294] President of Moldova Maia Sandu,[295] President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy,[106] Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador,[296] Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong,[297] President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others.

Security edit

Telegram's security model has received praise and notable criticism by cryptography experts. They criticized how, unless modified first, the default general security model stores all contacts, messages and media together with their decryption keys on its servers continuously; and that it does not enable end-to-end encryption for messages by default.[298][299] Pavel Durov has argued that this is because it helps to avoid third-party unsecured backups, and to allow users to access messages and files from any device. Criticisms were also aimed at Telegram's use of a custom-designed encryption protocol.[298][300][301][302] However, in December 2020, a study titled "Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0" was published, confirming the security of the updated MTProto 2.0 and reviewing it while pointing out several theoretical vulnerabilities.[303] The paper provides "fully automated proof of the soundness of MTProto 2.0's authentication, normal chat, end-to-end encrypted chat, and re-keying mechanisms with respect to several security properties, including authentication, integrity, confidentiality and perfect forward secrecy" and "proves the formal correctness of MTProto 2.0". This partially addresses the concern about the lack of scrutiny while confirming the formal security of the protocol's latest version.[303]

The desktop clients (excluding the macOS client) do not feature options for end-to-end encrypted messages. When the user assigns a local password in the desktop application, data is locally encrypted also. Telegram has defended the lack of ubiquitous end-to-end encryption by claiming the online-backups that do not use client-side encryption are "the most secure solution currently possible".[304]

In May 2016, critics disputed claims by Telegram that it is "more secure than mass market messengers like WhatsApp and Line",[78] as WhatsApp claims to apply end-to-end encryption to all of its traffic by default and uses the Signal Protocol, which has been "reviewed and endorsed by leading security experts", while Telegram does neither and stores all messages, media and contacts in their cloud.[298][299] Since July 2016, Line has also applied end-to-end encryption to all of its messages by default,[305] though it has also been criticized for being susceptible to replay attacks and the lack of forward secrecy between clients.[306]

In 2013, an author on the Russian programming website Habr discovered a weakness in the first version of MTProto that would allow an attacker to mount a man-in-the-middle attack and prevent the victim from being alerted by a changed key fingerprint. The bug was fixed on the day of the publication with a $100,000 payout to the author and a statement on Telegram's official blog.[307]

On 26 February 2014, the German consumer organization Stiftung Warentest evaluated several data-protection aspects of Telegram, along with other popular instant-messaging clients. Among the aspects considered were: the security of the data transmission, the service's terms of use, the accessibility of the source code, and the distribution of the app. Telegram was rated 'problematic' (kritisch) overall. The organization was favorable to Telegram's secure chats and partially free code but criticized the mandatory transfer of contact data to Telegram's servers and the lack of an imprint or address on the service's website. It noted that while the message data is encrypted on the device, it could not analyse the transmission due to a lack of source code.[308]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) listed Telegram on its "Secure Messaging Scorecard" in February 2015. Telegram's default chat function received a score of 4 out of 7 points on the scorecard. It received points for having communications encrypted in transit, having its code open to independent review, having the security design properly documented, and having completed a recent independent security audit. Telegram's default chat function missed points because the communications were not encrypted with keys the provider did not have access to, users could not verify contacts' identities, and past messages were not secure if the encryption keys were stolen. Telegram's optional secret chat function, which provides end-to-end encryption, received a score of 7 out of 7 points on the scorecard.[309] The EFF said that the results "should not be read as endorsements of individual tools or guarantees of their security", and that they were merely indications that the projects were "on the right track".[309]

In December 2015, two researchers from Aarhus University published a report in which they demonstrated that MTProto 1.0 did not achieve indistinguishability under chosen-ciphertext attack (IND-CCA) or authenticated encryption.[310] The researchers stressed that the attack was of a theoretical nature and they "did not see any way of turning the attack into a full plaintext-recovery attack". Nevertheless, they said they saw "no reason why [Telegram] should use a less secure encryption scheme when more secure (and at least as efficient) solutions exist".[311] The Telegram team responded that the flaw does not affect message security[312] and that "a future patch would address the concern".[313] Telegram 4.6, released in December 2017, supports MTProto 2.0, which now satisfied the conditions for IND-CCA.[299][314] MTProto 2.0 is seen by qualified cryptographers as a vast improvement to Telegram's security.[299]

In April 2016, the accounts of several Russian opposition members were hijacked by intercepting the SMS messages used for login authorization.[64] In response, Telegram recommended using the optional two-factor authentication feature.[64] In May 2016, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Nate Cardozo, senior staff attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation, recommended against using Telegram because of "its lack of end-to-end encryption [by default] and its use of non-standard MTProto encryption protocol, which has been publicly criticized by cryptography researchers, including Matthew Green".[298]

On 2 August 2016, Reuters reported that Iranian hackers compromised more than a dozen Telegram accounts and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users, as well as the associated user IDs. Researchers said the hackers belonged to a group known as Rocket Kitten. Rocket Kitten's attacks were similar to ones attributed to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The attackers took advantage of a programming interface built into Telegram. According to Telegram, these mass checks are no longer possible because of limitations introduced into its API earlier in 2016.[315]

Login SMS messages are known to have been intercepted in Iran, Russia and Germany, possibly in coordination with phone or telecom companies.[64][316][317] Pavel Durov has said that Telegram users in "troubled countries" should enable two-factor authentication by creating passwords in order to prevent this.[64][316]

In June 2017, Pavel Durov in an interview claimed that U.S. intelligence agencies tried to bribe the company's developers to weaken Telegram's encryption or install a backdoor during their visit to the U.S. in 2016.[318][319]

In 2018, Telegram sent a message to all Iranian users stating that the Telegram Talai and Hotgram unofficial clients are not secure.[320]

In March 2014, Telegram promised that "all code will be released eventually", including all the various client applications (Android, iOS, desktop, etc.) and the server-side code.[321] As of May 2021, Telegram had not published their server-side source code.[322] In January 2021, Durov explained his rationale for not releasing server-side code, citing reasons such as inability for end-users to verify that the released code is the same code run on servers, and a government that wanted to acquire the server code and make a messaging app that would end competitors.[323]

On 9 June 2019, The Intercept released leaked Telegram messages exchanged between current Brazilian Minister of Justice and former judge Sérgio Moro and federal prosecutors.[324] The hypothesis is that either mobile devices were hacked by SIM swap or the targets' computers were compromised.[325] The Telegram team tweeted that it was either because the user had malware or they were not using two-step verification.[326]

On 12 June 2019, Telegram confirmed that it suffered a denial-of-service attack which disrupted normal app functionality for approximately one hour. Pavel Durov tweeted that the IP addresses used in the attack mostly came from China.[327]

In December 2019, multiple Russian businessmen suffered account takeovers that involved bypassing SMS single-factor authentication. Security company Group-IB suggested SS7 mobile signalling protocol weaknesses, illegal usage of surveillance equipment, or telecom insider attacks.[328][329]

On 30 March 2020, an Elasticsearch database holding 42 million records containing user IDs and phone numbers of Iranian users was exposed online without a password. The accounts were extracted from not Telegram but an unofficial version of Telegram, in what appears to be a possibly government-sanctioned fork. It took 11 days for the database to be taken down, but the researchers say the data was accessed by other parties, including a hacker who reported the information to a specialized forum.[330][331][332]

In September 2020, it was reported that Iran's RampantKitten ran a phishing and surveillance campaign against dissidents on Telegram.[333] The attack relied on people downloading a malware-infected file from any source, at which point it would replace Telegram files on the device and 'clone' session data. David Wolpoff, a former Department of Defense contractor, has stated that the weak link in the attack was the device itself and not any of the affected apps: "There's no way for a secure communication app to keep a user safe when the end devices are compromised."[334]

In July 2021, researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London and ETH Zurich published an analysis of the MTProto protocol, concluding that the protocol could provide a "confidential and integrity-protected channel" for communication. They also found that attackers had the theoretical ability to reorder messages coming from the client to the server though the attacker would not be able to see the content of the messages. Several other theoretical vulnerabilities were reported as well, in response to which Telegram released a document stating that the MITM attack on the key exchange was impossible as well as detailing the changes made to the protocol to protect from it in the future. All issues were patched before the paper's publication with a security bounty paid out to the researchers.[335][336][337]

In September 2021, a Russian researcher published details about a bug with the self-destruct feature that allowed the user to recover deleted photos from their own device. The bug was patched prior to publication and Telegram representatives offered a €1,000 bug bounty. The researcher did not sign the NDA that came with the offer and did not receive the award, opting to disclose the bug.[338][337][339][340][341]

In March 2023, the Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) advised against the use of Telegram and TikTok on business devices (especially the ones used for government related activities), the assessment has been commissioned and supported by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, Emilie Enger Mehl. Regarding Telegram, the report cites its lack of end-to-end encryption by default, its Russian origins and third-party open source intelligence as major critical points.[342]

Cryptography contests edit

Telegram has organized two cryptography contests to challenge its own security. Third parties were asked to break the service's cryptography and disclose the information contained within a secret chat between two computer-controlled users. A reward of respectively US$200,000 and US$300,000 was offered. Both of these contests expired with no winners.[343][344] Security researcher Moxie Marlinspike, founder of the competing Signal messenger, and commenters on Hacker News criticized the first contest for being rigged or framed in Telegram's favor and said that Telegram's statements on the value of these contests as proof of the cryptography's quality are misleading. This was because the cryptography contest could not be won even with completely broken algorithms such as MD2 (hash function) used as key stream extractor, and primitives such as the Dual EC DRBG that is known to be backdoored.[345][346][347]

Censorship edit

Further information: Government censorship of Telegram Messenger

Telegram has been blocked temporarily or permanently by some governments including Iran, China, Brazil, and Pakistan. The Russian government blocked Telegram for several years before lifting the ban in 2020.[348][349][350] The company's founder has said he wants the app to have an anti-censorship tool for Iran and China similar to the app's role in fighting censorship in Russia.[351]

2019 Puerto Rico "Telegramgate" edit

Main article: Telegramgate

Telegram was the main subject surrounding the 2019 Puerto Rico riots that ended up in the resignation of then-Governor Ricardo Rosselló. Hundreds of pages of a group chat between Rosselló and members of his staff were leaked. The messages were considered vulgar, racist, and homophobic, with members of the chat discussing how they would use the media to target potential political opponents.[352]

2021 shutdown of Russian political bots edit

In September 2021, prior to the regional elections in Russia, Telegram suspended several bots spreading information about the election, including a bot run by the opposition party and critics of incumbent president Vladimir Putin's government,[353][354] citing election silence as the reason, though a blog post by the company's CEO implied the company was following Apple and Google, which "dictate the rules of the game to developers".[355][353] The blocking of the main Smart Voting bot was criticized by allies of Alexei Navalny, a Kremlin critic and former opposition leader. Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh called the block and the deletion of the tactical voting app from app stores "censorship [...] imposed by private companies".[356] In a later blog post, Durov directly stated that the block was a result of pressure from Google and Apple as refusal to comply with their policies would result "in an immediate shutdown of Telegram for millions of users". The post included a screenshot showing an internal email sent by the App Store to developers, demanding the takedown of content related to Navalny.[357]

2022 Delhi High Court ruling edit

On November 24, following an order by the Delhi High Court, Telegram was ordered to disclose the admin names, phone numbers and IP addresses of channels accused of unauthorised sharing of national exam study materials. Telegram originally argued that its regional servers were located in Singapore and thus no data could be disclosed as the local laws prohibit it.[358][359]

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telegram, software, redirects, here, confused, with, telegram, messenger, commonly, known, telegram, cloud, based, cross, platform, instant, messaging, service, originally, launched, august, 2013, android, october, 2013, allows, users, exchange, messages, shar. t me redirects here Not to be confused with TME Telegram Messenger commonly known as Telegram is a cloud based cross platform instant messaging IM service It was originally launched for iOS on 14 August 2013 and Android in October 2013 It allows users to exchange messages share media and files hold private and group voice or video calls as well as public livestreams It is available for Android iOS Windows macOS Linux and web browsers Telegram provides end to end encryption in voice and video calls 10 and in optional private chats which Telegram calls Secret Chats TelegramScreenshotTelegram running on iOS screenshot taken in 2019Developer s Telegram FZ LLCTelegram Messenger Inc Initial release14 August 2013 10 years ago 2013 08 14 Stable release s Android10 4 0 1 21 December 2023 3 days ago 21 December 2023 iOS iPadOS10 4 1 2 21 December 2023 3 days ago 21 December 2023 Windows macOS Linux Telegram Desktop 4 12 2 3 1 December 2023 23 days ago 1 December 2023 macOS10 4 4 23 December 2023 1 day ago 23 December 2023 Repositorygithub wbr com wbr telegramdesktop wbr tdesktopWritten inDesktop C C Java PythonAndroid Java iOS SwiftPlatformAndroid iOS Windows Windows Phone macOS Linux Web platform Wear OS WatchOSAvailable in66 officially 12 languages 5 6 List of languagesChinese Beta English Russian Persian Turkish Italian Arabic Ukrainian Kazakh Uzbek Portuguese Spanish German Dutch French Japanese Beta Korean Indonesian Malay Belarusian Catalan Polish Finnish HebrewTypeInstant messagingLicenseGNU GPLv3 only with OpenSSL linking exception clients 7 proprietary server 8 Websitetelegram wbr orgTelegram Messenger Inc FoundedMarch 2013 10 years ago 2013 03 HeadquartersTortola British Virgin Islands legal domicile 9 Dubai United Arab Emirates operational center Area servedWorldwideFounder s Nikolai DurovPavel DurovCEOPavel DurovIndustrySoftwareURLtelegram wbr orgTelegram also has social networking features allowing users to post stories create large public groups with up to 200 000 members or share one way updates to unlimited audiences in so called channels 11 The service also provides an open API for the creation of custom bots which can perform various tasks integrate other services into Telegram chats or work as mini apps 12 Telegram was founded in 2013 by Nikolai and Pavel Durov 13 14 Its servers are distributed worldwide while the headquarters are in Dubai United Arab Emirates 15 16 Telegram is the most popular instant messaging application in parts of Europe Asia and Africa 17 18 As of August 2023 update Telegram has more than 800 million monthly active users 19 with India leading in the number of users 20 It was the most downloaded app worldwide in January 2021 21 22 with 1 billion downloads globally as of late August 2021 Contents 1 History 1 1 Development 1 2 Usage 2 Features 2 1 Accounts 2 2 Cloud based messages 2 3 Secret chats 2 4 Groups and Channels 2 5 Video and voice calls 2 6 Bots 2 7 Stickers and animated emoji 2 8 People Nearby and Groups Nearby 2 9 Stories 2 10 Premium Features 3 Related platforms 4 Architecture 4 1 Privacy 4 2 Servers 4 3 Clients 4 4 APIs 5 Business 5 1 Advertising and monetization 5 1 1 Pay per view bots 5 2 Telegram Open Network 6 Criticism 6 1 IRGC 6 2 ISIS 6 3 Far right groups 6 4 Child and teenage pornography 6 5 Bot abuse 6 6 Myanmar military 6 7 Fraudulent jobs 7 Reception 7 1 Security 7 1 1 Cryptography contests 7 2 Censorship 7 2 1 2019 Puerto Rico Telegramgate 7 2 2 2021 shutdown of Russian political bots 7 2 3 2022 Delhi High Court ruling 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksHistory editDevelopment edit Telegram was launched in 2013 by the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov Previously the pair founded the Russian social network VK which they left in 2014 saying it had been taken over by the government 23 Pavel sold his remaining stake in VK and left Russia after resisting government pressure 24 Nikolai created the MTProto protocol that is the basis for the messenger while Pavel provided financial support and infrastructure through his Digital Fortress fund 25 Telegram Messenger states that its end goal is not to bring profit 26 27 but it is not structured as a non profit organization 28 Telegram is registered as a company in the British Virgin Islands 9 and as an LLC in Dubai 29 30 It does not disclose where it rents offices or which legal entities it uses to rent them citing the need to shelter the team from unnecessary influence and protect users from governmental data requests 31 After Pavel left Russia in 2014 he was said to be moving from country to country with a small group of computer programmers consisting of 15 core members 24 32 While a former employee of VK claimed that Telegram had employees in Saint Petersburg 33 Pavel said the Telegram team made Berlin Germany its headquarters in 2014 34 but failed to obtain German residence permits for everyone on the team and moved to other jurisdictions in early 2015 33 Since 2017 the company has been based in Dubai 35 It has a complex corporate structure of shell companies to delay complying with government subpoenas 36 Usage edit Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki wiki In October 2013 Telegram announced that it had 100 000 daily active users 25 On 24 March 2014 Telegram announced that it had reached 35 million monthly users and 15 million daily active users 37 In October 2014 South Korean government surveillance plans drove many of its citizens to switch to Telegram from the Korean app KakaoTalk 34 In December 2014 Telegram announced that it had 50 million active users generating 1 billion daily messages and that it had 1 million new users signing up on its service every week 38 traffic doubled in five months with 2 billion daily messages 39 In September 2015 Telegram announced that the app had 60 million active users and delivered 12 billion daily messages 40 In February 2016 Telegram announced that it had 100 million monthly active users with 350 000 new users signing up every day delivering 15 billion messages daily 41 In December 2017 Telegram reached 180 million monthly active users 42 By March 2018 that number had doubled with Telegram reaching 200 million monthly active users 43 On 14 March 2019 Pavel claimed that 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours 44 He did not specify what prompted this flood of new sign ups but the period matched a prolonged technical outage experienced by Facebook and its family of apps including Instagram 45 According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission as of October 2019 Telegram had 300 million monthly active users worldwide 46 On 24 April 2020 Telegram announced that it had reached 400 million monthly active users 47 On 8 January 2021 Pavel announced in a blog post that Telegram had reached about 500 million monthly active users 48 In August TechCrunch reported that India was Telegram s largest market with a 22 share of total installs coming from the region 49 Telegram then gained over 70 million new users as a result of an outage which affected Facebook and its affiliates on 5 October 2021 50 As of March 2022 Telegram s usage share had jumped to 63 overtaking WhatsApp s usage share of 32 to become the most popular messaging app in Russia 51 On 19 June 2022 Telegram announced that it had reached 700 million monthly active users 52 53 As of July 2023 Telegram has more than 800 million monthly active users 19 Features editAccounts edit nbsp Account self destruction nbsp The user was limited Telegram accounts are usually tied to telephone numbers which are verified by SMS or phone call 54 In December 2022 an update introduced the ability to sign up without a phone number and instead by using a 888 number purchased on the Fragment platform which is linked to the user s TON wallet 55 Account creation requires an iOS or Android device regardless of the platform intended to be used 56 57 Users can add multiple devices to their account and receive messages on all of them Connected devices can be removed individually or all at once The associated number can be changed at any time and when doing so the user s contacts will receive the new number automatically 54 58 59 In addition a user can set up a username as an alias that allows them to send and receive messages without exposing their phone number 60 Telegram accounts can be deleted at any time and they are deleted automatically after six months of inactivity by default which can optionally be changed from 1 month at the shortest up to 12 months at most with a range between Users can replace exact last seen timestamps with broader messages such as last seen recently 61 The default method of authentication that Telegram uses for logins is SMS based single factor authentication 62 63 A one time passcode that is sent via SMS to the user s phone number is required to log into the account by default 63 64 Users also have the option to create a password as a form of two step verification 65 In late 2022 Telegram began testing for a select number of users the ability to receive their one time code via email as well as testing the integration of Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Google 66 Telegram allows groups bots and channels with a verified social media or Wikipedia page to be verified but not user accounts 67 68 In the past exceptions have been made to have accounts verified but this practice is no longer carried out Accounts of users who purchased Telegram s Premium subscription are marked with a star emoji which the users can change to any emoji of their choice 69 Cloud based messages edit Telegram s default messages are cloud based and can be accessed on any of the user s connected devices Users can share photos videos audio messages and other files up to 2 gigabytes per file Users can send messages to other users individually or in groups of up to 200 000 members 70 Sent messages can be edited up to 48 hours after they have been sent and can be deleted at any time on both sides Messages in all chats including groups and channels can be set to auto delete after 24 hours 7 days or a month although this will only apply to messages sent after the auto delete timer is enabled 71 72 People can react to messages choosing from a range of emoji A user can only send one reaction and tapping on any other reaction will switch to it In groups a list of people who reacted is available Reactions are always on in personal chats but have to be enabled by the admin in groups and channels fully or partially with a smaller number of reactions chosen 73 Telegram offers drafts which sync across user devices such as when a user starts typing a message on one device and can later continue on another The draft will persist in the editing area on any device until it is sent or removed 74 All chats including groups and channels can be sorted into custom folders set by the user Users have the option to schedule messages in personal chats to be sent when the other side comes online 75 Users can also import chat history including both messages and media from WhatsApp Line and Kakaotalk due to data portability either making a new chat to hold the messages or adding them to an existing one 76 77 The transmission of cloud messages to Telegram s servers is encrypted with the service s MTProto protocol while Secret Chats use end to end encryption based on the same protocol 78 According to Telegram s privacy policy all data is stored heavily encrypted and the encryption keys in each case are stored in several other data centers in different jurisdictions This way local engineers or physical intruders cannot get access to users data 79 Telegram s local message database is not encrypted by default 80 Some Telegram clients allow users to encrypt the local message database by setting a passphrase 81 Telegram users can share their live location in a chat for either 15 minutes one hour or eight hours If multiple users share their live location within a group they are shown on an interactive map Sharing the live location can be stopped at any time 82 Secret chats edit nbsp A secret chat confirmation notice screenshot from iOS 16Messages can also be sent with client to client encryption in so called secret chats These messages are encrypted with the service s MTProto protocol 83 Unlike Telegram s cloud based messages messages sent within a secret chat can be accessed only on the device upon which the secret chat was initiated and the device upon which the secret chat was accepted 25 78 84 Messages sent within secret chats can in principle be deleted at any time and can optionally self destruct 85 Secret chats have to be initiated and accepted via an invitation upon which the encryption keys for the session are exchanged Users in a secret chat can verify that no man in the middle attack has occurred by comparing pictures that visualize their public key fingerprints 86 According to Telegram secret chats have supported perfect forward secrecy since December 2014 Encryption keys are periodically changed after a key has been used more than 100 times or has been in use for more than a week 80 Old encryption keys are destroyed 58 59 87 Secret Chats are available only on the Android iOS and macOS clients of the app 88 Groups and Channels edit Telegram users can create and join groups and channels Groups are large multi user chats that support up to 200 000 members and can be public or private Users can freely join public chats and find them using the in app search function while private chats require an invitation They support flexible admin rights and can use bots for moderation to prevent spam and unwanted activity Groups can be split into topics effectively creating subgroups dedicated to various subjects with separate settings for each 89 Admins can choose to hide the list of members in a group as well as post anonymously themselves 90 Similarly groups and channels can have content protection enabled which prevents screenshots forwarding and downloading of media 91 92 Ownership of channels and groups can be transferred to one of the admins if the owner wishes to give up their rights Groups support threaded replies where bringing up the context menu on a message allows one to open a screen with a thread of replies made to that message and the subsequent ones in the thread Specific users can be tagged in the group by adding username to a message where username is that particular user s username Groups and channels also support polls which can be open or anonymous and can support multiple choices When forwarded polls retain the answer data and any votes cast in other chats will count toward the overall total 93 94 Channels are one way feeds where the channel owner or admins can post content while followers can only read react and comment if comments have been enabled 95 96 Channels can be created for broadcasting messages to an unlimited number of subscribers 97 The list of those who subscribe to a channel can only be seen by its admins Posting in the channel is anonymous though admins can choose to add signatures to their posts Channels offer detailed statistics on view counts user growth and interactions also visible only to admins 98 Channel owners are able to use Telegram to create giveaways randomly awarding channel members with prizes such as Telegram Premium subscriptions to their followers based on certain criteria 99 Users with a Telegram Premium subscription have a number of boosts that they can give to channels which allow the channel to level up and unlock features such as the ability to customize messages or post stories as the channel 100 In December 2019 Bloomberg News moved their messenger based newsletter service from WhatsApp to Telegram after the former banned bulk and automated messaging 101 102 Other news services with official channels on the platform include the Financial Times 103 Business Insider 104 and The New York Times 105 Channels have also been used by governments and heads of state Notable examples include Volodymyr Zelensky 106 and Emmanuel Macron 107 Channels have been used by journalists in oppressive regimes to establish independent news networks 108 Video and voice calls edit At the end of March 2017 Telegram introduced its own end to end encrypted voice calls Connection is established as peer to peer whenever possible otherwise the closest server to the client is used According to Telegram there is a neural network working to learn various technical parameters about a call to provide better quality of service for future uses 109 Telegram added group voice chats in December 2020 110 Any group or channel admin can launch a chat which will be open to all members and ongoing even if no one is currently using it Admins can mute members by default or selectively as well as create invite links that will add people as muted by default Members can use the Raise Hand button to signal their desire to speak A push to talk option is available on mobile versions as well as key shortcuts to mute and unmute oneself on Telegram Desktop Admins of groups or channels have the option to join as their group or channel hiding their personal account Users can also record chats with a red dot shown as a warning during the recording period 111 Telegram announced in April 2020 that they would include group video calls by the end of the year 112 On 15 August 2020 Telegram added video calling with end to end encryption 113 Picture in picture mode is also available giving the ability to use the other functions of the app during the call 114 In June 2021 Telegram implemented group video calls across all of its clients Users can stream video from their camera share their screen or do both simultaneously 115 116 Group calls have support for selective screen sharing split screen view and improved noise suppression 117 In July 2021 Telegram introduced the ability for up to 1000 people to watch the streamed video 118 Livestreams support unlimited participants and third party streaming software such as OBS Studio and XSplit supporting custom interfaces and overlays 119 120 Bots edit In June 2015 Telegram launched a platform for third party developers to create bots 121 Bots are Telegram accounts operated by programs They can respond to messages or mentions can be invited into groups and can be integrated with other programs Bots can also accept online payments made with credit cards or Apple Pay 122 The Dutch website Tweakers reported that an invited bot can potentially read all group messages when the bot controller changes the access settings silently at a later point in time Telegram pointed out that it considered implementing a feature that would announce such a status change within the relevant group 123 There are also inline bots which can be used from any chat screen To activate an inline bot a user must type the bot s username and a query in the message field The bot then will offer its content The user can choose from that content and send it within a chat 124 Bots can also handle transactions provided by Paymentwall Yandex Money Stripe Ravepay Razorpay QiWi and Google Pay for different countries 125 Bots also power Telegram s gaming platform which utilizes HTML5 so games are loaded on demand as needed like ordinary webpages Games work on iPhones 4 and newer and on Android 4 4 devices and newer 126 People can use Internet Of Things IoT services with two ways interaction for IFTTT implemented within Telegram 127 nbsp Test order receipt prior checkout through TelegramIn April 2021 the Payments 2 0 upgrade enabled bot payments within any chat using third party services such as Sberbank Tranzoo Payme CLICK LiqPay and ECOMMPAY to process the credit card information 128 In February 2018 Telegram launched their social login feature to its users named Telegram Login It features a website widget that could be embedded into websites allowing users to sign into a third party website with their Telegram account The gateway sends users Telegram name username and profile picture to the website owner while users phone number remains hidden The gateway is integrated with a bot which is linked with the developer s specific website domain 129 In June 2021 an update introduced a new bot menu where users can browse and send commands while in a chat with a bot 130 In April 2022 bots gained support for customized interfaces and inline page loading Interfaces can be adjusted to match the app s theme even if it is changed while interacting Stickers and animated emoji edit Telegram has more than 20 000 stickers Stickers are cloud based high resolution images intended to provide more expressive emoji When typing in an emoji the user is offered to send the respective sticker instead Stickers come in collections called packs and multiple stickers can be offered for one emoji Telegram comes with one default sticker pack 131 but users can install additional sticker packs provided by third party contributors Sticker sets installed from one client become automatically available to all other clients Sticker images use WebP file format which is better optimized to be transmitted over the internet The Telegram clients also support animated emoji 130 In January 2022 video stickers were added which use the WebM file format and do not feature any software requirements to create 132 In September 2022 Telegram has given free users access to dozens of reactions even some that were only previously available to Premium subscribers In order to accommodate the new reactions the reaction panel has been expanded and redesigned 133 People Nearby and Groups Nearby edit People Nearby can help users meet new friends by turning on phone GPS location and opting in contacts and through Groups Nearby people can create a local group by adding location data to groups 134 135 Stories edit Similar to other social platforms Telegram users can post stories a type of short form content Telegram stories have several distinctive features like a dual camera mode extra privacy settings the ability to edit stories after posting them as well as to rewind and fast forward them while watching 136 137 138 Premium Features edit Telegram Premium was launched on 19 June 2022 with regional pricing 52 53 The optional paid subscription gives users increased limits in the app such as larger file uploads faster download speeds unlimited voice message transcription 139 as well as numerous other increases such as the number of pinned chats and folders Premium users also have access to extra stickers emoji reactions and customization features like a special badge and the ability to change the look of their messages in chats Premium users also get access to additional settings like instant chat translation and the ability to restrict who can send them voice messages 140 141 As of 2023 Telegram Premium can be acquired via in app purchases facilitated by Apple and Google directly via Telegram s PremiumBot or with cryptocurrency on the Fragment platform 142 Users are able to purchase a subscription for themselves or purchase a subscription for someone else to send as a gift Premium subscriptions can also be won through official Channel Giveaways in which Telegram channels pre purchase a specific number of Premium subscriptions that are randomly given away to their subscribers 143 Related platforms edit nbsp Telegraph articlePeople can use their Telegram accounts to author articles on Telegraph a minimalistic text editor and publisher While articles on Telegraph can be published anonymously tying them to one s account allows one to check their view count and edit them later Telegraph natively supports Instant View a feature which lets users read full articles in the chat with no load time and without opening an external browser 144 145 146 When an article is first published the URL is generated automatically from its title Non Latin characters are transliterated spaces are replaced with hyphens and the date of publication is added to the address For example an article titled Telegraph blog platform published on 17 November would receive the URL Telegraph blog platform 11 17 144 Text formatting options are also minimal two levels of headings single level lists bold italics quotes and hyperlinks are supported Authors can upload images and videos to the page with a limit of 5 MB When an author adds links to YouTube Vimeo or Twitter the service allows you to embed their content directly in the article 147 In February 2018 Telegram launched their social login feature to its users named Telegram Login It features a website widget that could be embedded into websites allowing users to sign into a third party website with their Telegram account The gateway sends users Telegram name username and profile picture to the website owner while users phone number remains hidden The gateway is integrated with a bot which is linked with the developer s specific website domain 148 In July 2018 Telegram introduced their online authorization and identity management system Telegram Passport for platforms that require real life identification 149 It asks users to upload their own official documents such as passport identity card driver license etc When an online service requires such identification documents and verification it forwards the information to the platform with the user s permission Telegram stated that it does not have access to the data while the platform will share the information only with the authorized recipient 150 However the service was criticised for being vulnerable to online brute force attacks 151 In December 2020 Telegram launched a Bugs and Suggestions platform 152 where users can submit bug reports and suggestion cards for new features Others can then vote and comment on the cards Architecture editPrivacy edit nbsp A simplified illustration of the MTProto encryption schemeFor encrypted chats branded as Secret Chats Telegram uses a custom built symmetric encryption scheme called MTProto The protocol was developed by Nikolai Durov and other developers at Telegram and as of version 2 0 is based on 256 bit symmetric AES encryption 2048 bit RSA encryption and Diffie Hellman key exchange 83 153 MTProto 1 0 was deprecated in favor of MTProto 2 0 in December 2017 which was deployed in Telegram clients as of v4 6 153 Version 2 0 was proven formally correct in December 2020 by a team from the University of Udine Italy The team reviewed the protocol after realizing that they could only find in depth verifications done of version 1 0 where most criticisms were levied They used ProVerif a verifier based on the symbolic Dolev Yao model In the published paper they provide a fully automated proof of the soundness of MTProto 2 0 s protocols for authentication normal chat end to end encrypted chat and re keying mechanisms with respect to several security properties including authentication integrity confidentiality and perfect forward secrecy MTProto 2 0 is assumed to be a perfect authenticated encryption scheme IND CCA and INT CTXT 153 154 However the team also stated that because all communication including plaintext and ciphertext passes through Telegram servers and because the server is responsible for choosing Diffie Hellman parameters the server should not be considered as trusted They also concluded that a man in the middle attack is possible if users fail to check the fingerprints of their shared keys Finally they qualified their conclusion with the caveat that properties need to be formally proved in order to deem MTProto 2 0 definitely secure This proof cannot be done in a symbolic model like ProVerif s but it can be achieved in a computational model using tools like CryptoVerif or EasyCrypt Servers edit As with most instant messaging protocols Telegram uses centralized servers Telegram Messenger LLP has servers in a number of countries throughout the world to improve the response time of their service 155 Telegram s server side software is closed source and proprietary 8 Pavel Durov said that it would require a major architectural redesign of the server side software to connect independent servers to the Telegram cloud 156 For users who signed in from the European Economic Area EEA or United Kingdom the General Data Protection Regulations GDPR are supported by storing data only on servers in the Netherlands and designating a London based company as their responsible data controller 157 158 159 Clients edit Telegram has various client apps some developed by Telegram Messenger LLP and some by the community Most of them are free and open source and released under the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or 3 The official clients support sending any file format extensions The built in media viewer supports common media formats JPEG PNG WebP for images and H 264 and HEVC in videos in MP4 container and MP3 FLAC Vorbis Opus and AAC for audio In 2021 the Telegram team announced a direct build of its Android app Telegram for Android is available directly from the Telegram website 160 It is automatically updated and will most likely get new versions faster than the apps in the Play Store and App Store 161 A distinctive feature of this version is the ability to view channels groups on a specific topic without censorship which cannot be viewed from an app distributed from Google Play or the Apple Store due to their policies citation needed Common specifications No cloud backup option for secret chatName Platform s Official Source code license Support for secret chats NotesTelegram Android Yes GPLv2 or later 162 163 Yes Supports tablets 164 and Wear OS smart watches 165 Support synchronisation between multiple devices Telegram iOS and iPadOS Yes GPLv2 or later 162 166 Yes Launched in August 2013 for iPhone and iPod Touch and relaunched in July 2014 with support for iPad and Apple Watch 167 No longer compatible with watchOS Telegram X Android 168 Yes 169 GPLv3 or later 170 Yes An alternative Telegram client written from scratch with higher speed slicker animations themes and more efficient battery use 171 iOS version is written with Swift Android version based on TDLib The iOS version was discontinued with its code merged with the main Telegram app Telegram Messenger Windows Phone Yes GPLv2 or later 162 Yes Provide synchronization between all platforms No longer supported Telegram Desktop Windows macOS and Linux Yes GPLv3 with OpenSSL exception 172 No Qt based desktop client The Windows client is a traditional desktop app published in three flavors with installer portable Windows Store app The desktop version cannot be used anymore to register and log in this feature is officially supported by the mobile app only 57 Telegram macOS Yes GPLv2 173 Yes Native macOS client Telegram Web A Web K Web Yes GPLv3 174 175 No Two web based versions of Telegram 176 The web version cannot be used to register and log in this feature is officially supported by the mobile app only 177 The code for the legacy web client called Webogram is available as well though this version is no longer supported 178 APIs edit Telegram has public APIs with which developers can access the same functionality as Telegram s official apps to build their own messaging applications 179 In February 2015 creators of the unofficial Whatsapp client released the Telegram Plus app later renamed to Plus Messenger after their original project got a cease and desist order from WhatsApp 180 181 In September 2015 Samsung released a messaging application based on these APIs 182 Telegram also offers an API that allows developers to create bots which are accounts controlled by programs 183 184 Such bots are used among other things to emulate and play old games in the app and inform users about vaccine availability for COVID 19 185 186 In addition Telegram offers functions for making payments directly within the platform alongside an external service such as Stripe Business editThe company was initially supported by its CEO s personal funds after the sale of his stake in VK In January 2018 it launched a private placement and collected 1 7 billion from investors such as Kleiner Perkins Sequoia Capital and Benchmark 187 After the shutdown of the TON project the company needed to repay the investors the money that was not spent on its development during 2018 and the beginning of 2019 while the project was active 188 On 15 March 2021 Telegram conducted a five year public bonds placement worth 1 billion The funding was required to cover the debts amounting to 625 7 million including 433 million to investors who bought futures for Gram tokens in 2018 and included purchasers such as David Yakobashvili 189 On 23 March Telegram also sold additional bonds worth 150 million to the Abu Dhabi Mubadala Investment Company and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners 190 A day later the Mubadala Investment Company stated that Russia s sovereign wealth fund participated in its deal undisclosed through the Russia UAE joint investment platform to buy convertible bonds A Telegram spokesperson stated RDIF is not in the list of investors we sold bonds to We wouldn t be open to any transaction with this fund and t he funds that did invest including Mubadala confirmed to us that RDIF was not among their LPs limited partners 191 According to the contract the holders of the bonds will be provided with an option to convert them to shares at a 10 discount if the company conducts an open IPO 192 The company s CEO has stated that the move aimed to enable Telegram to continue growing globally while sticking to its values and remaining independent According to press reports prior to the bonds placement Durov had rejected an investment offer for a 5 10 stake in the company as well as several undisclosed ones valuing the company in a 30 40 billion range 190 Advertising and monetization edit Telegram has stated that the company will never serve advertisements in private chats 193 In late 2020 Durov announced that the company was working on its own ad platform and would integrate non targeted ads in public one to many channels that already were selling and displaying ads in the form of regular messages 194 Ads from Telegram s Sponsored Messages platform began to appear in channels with more than 1000 followers in October 2021 In late 2020 Durov announced that Telegram will consider adding paid features aimed at enterprise clients According to him these features will require more bandwidth and the added cost will be covered by the feature prices in addition to covering some of the costs incurred by regular users 195 Pay per view bots edit In 2022 Telegram canceled a bot monetization upgrade program because Apple demanded a cut 196 Telegram Open Network edit Main article Telegram Open Network In 2017 in an attempt to monetize Telegram without advertising the company began the development of a blockchain platform dubbed either The Open Network or Telegram Open Network TON and its native cryptocurrency Gram The project was announced in mid December 2017 197 and its 132 page technical paper became available in January 2018 198 The codebase behind TON was developed by Pavel Durov s brother Nikolai Durov the core developer of Telegram s MTProto protocol 199 In January 2018 a 23 page white paper 198 and a detailed 132 page technical paper 198 for TON blockchain became available 200 Durov planned to power TON with the existing Telegram user base and turn it into the largest blockchain and a platform for apps and services akin to a decentralized WeChat Google Play and App Store 201 202 Besides the TON had the potential to become a decentralized alternative to Visa and MasterCard due to its ability to scale and support millions of transactions per second 203 204 In January and February 2018 the company ran a private sale of futures contracts for Grams 205 raising around 1 7 billion 206 207 208 209 No public offering took place 210 The development of TON took place in a completely isolated manner and the release was postponed several times 211 The test network was launched in January 2019 212 The launch of the TON main network was scheduled for 31 October 213 On October 30 the U S Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a temporary restrictive order to prevent the distribution of Grams to initial purchasers the regulator considered the legal scheme employed by Telegram as an unregistered securities offering with initial buyers acting as underwriters 214 The judge hearing the Telegram v SEC case P Kevin Castel ultimately agreed with the SEC s argument 215 and kept the restrictions on Gram distribution in force The ban applied to non U S based purchasers as well because Telegram could not prevent the re sale of Grams to U S citizens on a secondary market as the anonymity of users was one of the key features of TON 216 217 218 Following that Durov announced the end of Telegram s active involvement with TON On 26 June the judge approved the settlement between Telegram and SEC The company agreed to pay an 18 5 million penalty and return 1 22 billion to Gram purchasers 219 In March 2021 Telegram launched a bonds offering to cover the debt and fund further growth of the app 189 192 Criticism editTelegram has been used for spreading hate messages and illegal activities such as illegal pornography contact between criminals and trading of illegal goods and services such as drugs and stolen personal data 220 221 222 223 224 According to Wired Telegram exercises virtually no content moderation except to take down illegal pornography and calls for violence 225 IRGC edit In Iraq and Iran the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has used groups and channels for doxing citizens and warmongering propaganda 226 227 228 229 230 ISIS edit In September 2015 in response to a question about the use of Telegram by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIS Pavel Durov stated I think that privacy ultimately and our right for privacy is more important than our fear of bad things happening like terrorism 231 Durov sarcastically suggested to ban words because terrorists use them for communication 232 ISIS recommended Telegram to its supporters and members 233 234 235 and in October 2015 they were able to double the number of followers of their official channel to 9 000 236 In November 2015 Telegram announced that it had blocked 78 public channels operated by ISIS for spreading its propaganda and mass communication 237 238 239 Telegram stated that it would block public channels and bots that are related to terrorism but it would not honor politically motivated censorship based on local restrictions on freedom of speech and that it allowed peaceful expression of alternative opinions 240 ISIS s usage of Telegram reignited the encryption debate and encrypted messaging applications faced new scrutiny 241 242 In August 2016 French anti terrorism investigators asserted that the two ISIS directed terrorists who murdered a priest in Saint Etienne du Rouvray in Normandy France and videoed the murder had communicated via Telegram and used the app to coordinate their plans for the attack ISIS s media wing subsequently posted a video on Telegram showing the pair pledging allegiance A CNN news report stated that Telegram had become known as a preferred means of communication for the terror group ISIS and was used by the ISIS cell that plotted the Paris terror attacks in November after the attacks 233 Daily Mirror called Telegram a jihadi messaging app 243 In June 2017 the Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor hinted at the possibility of a blocking of Telegram in Russia due to its usage by terrorists 244 In July 2017 Director General of Application and Informatics of the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan said eleven Telegram DNS servers were blocked because many channels in the service promoted radicalism terrorism hatred bomb assembly civil attack disturbing images and other propaganda contrary to Indonesian laws and regulations 245 In August 2017 Indonesia lifted the block after countermeasures against negative content were deployed in association with Telegram LLP 246 In November 2019 Telegram participated in Europol s Internet Referral Action Day 247 As a result Telegram expanded and strengthened its terrorist content detection and removal efforts Over 43 000 terrorist related bots and channels were removed from Telegram According to U S officials the crackdown on Telegram was especially effective and seemed to be having lasting impact 248 According to Europol Telegram put considerable effort into removing abusers of its platform 247 Far right groups edit The Anti Defamation League has called Telegram a white supremacist safe haven and a valuable tool for right wing extremists 249 Miro Dittrich a senior researcher for the Center for Monitoring Analysis and Strategy CeMAS a German extremism monitoring agency said Telegram has been critical for the far right scene in Germany ever since the Identitarian movement migrated there in 2018 having been kicked off Facebook and Instagram 250 The neo Nazi white separatist paramilitary hate group The Base switched to Telegram after being blocked on most social media platforms including Twitter YouTube and Gab After a number of arrests of The Base members in January 2020 a note appeared on its official Telegram account warning people to stop posting 251 In August 2019 white supremacist Christopher Cantwell posted anti Semitic comments on Telegram 252 The Anti Defamation League notes that Telegram was founded by the same two Russian brothers who founded VKontakte VK which is known for its lack of moderation when it comes to white supremacy While Telegram s terms of service prohibit the promotion of violence they have allowed livestreams of the Christchurch mosque shootings 2022 Buffalo shooting and the Halle synagogue shooting all of which were livestreamed by their perpetrators although other social media platforms had removed them The League also points to the RapeWaffen Division channel which openly advocates rape and murder as part of a race war 249 Telegram has also been used by the alt right organization Proud Boys to coordinate throughout the United States 253 In the United Kingdom Telegram is one of the main platforms for far right publication TR news maintained by Tommy Robinson and Britain First whose pages were blocked by major social media platforms 254 Weblinks related to these channels received more views on Telegram in 2018 and 2019 than some well known mainstream news outlets including The Guardian or the Daily Mail 255 However with a relatively small user base and no algorithmic timeline such groups struggle to build a larger audience on Telegram 255 In January 2021 Telegram said that it blocked hundreds of neo Nazi and white supremacist channels with tens of thousands of followers for inciting violence 256 257 A 2021 Institute for Strategic Dialogue report on the far right in Ireland found that messages from Irish far right groups on the app increased from a total of 801 in 2019 to over 60 000 in 2020 258 On 27 August 2021 the U S House of Representatives select committee investigating the 2021 United States Capitol attack demanded records from Telegram alongside 14 other social media companies going back to the spring of 2020 259 In January 2022 the British anti disinformation organization Logically reported that Holocaust denial neo Nazism and other forms of hate speech were flourishing on the Discord and Telegram groups of the German website Disclose tv 260 250 On 26 April 2023 Telegram was temporarily suspended throughout Brazil and the company was fined R 1 million 2023 US 185 528 76 daily for not complying with a Federal Police investigation into neo Nazi activities on the platform The company only partially fulfilled a court request for personal data on two anti Semitic Telegram groups which authorities considered an intentional lack of cooperation The decision was made after a series of violent school attacks with at least one incident being linked to exchanges on an anti Semitic group 261 The Telegram CEO then said that the requested data was technologically impossible to obtain 262 A federal court lifted the suspension three days later but upheld the daily fine 263 Twelve days later Telegram told its users that the Brazilian Congressional Bill No 2630 against online disinformation which was about to be approved would end freedom of speech in the country 264 Child and teenage pornography edit The app has been used for distribution of pornographic material including child and teenage pornography 265 266 Telegram s internal reporting system has an option to report content that contains Child Abuse including specific messages in groups and channels The company has a verified channel called Stop Child Abuse where daily statistics on the number of groups and channels banned for sharing illegal materials are posted It also provides an email address dedicated to reports of content related to child abuse 267 268 In January 2021 North Macedonian media outlets reported that a now banned Telegram group with more than 7 000 members titled Public Room Јavna soba was used to share nude photos of women often young teenage girls 269 Along with the shared photographs anonymous accounts shared private information of the women including phone numbers and social media profiles encouraging members of the group to contact the women and ask for sexual favours 270 This was done without prior agreement or knowledge of the women causing intense public backlash and demand for the group to be shut down The President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski along with the Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev demanded an immediate reaction from Telegram and threatened to completely restrict access to the app in the country if no actions were taken 271 272 The group was banned after reports from users and media although no public statement was made Bot abuse edit In 2021 a bot was found selling leaked phone numbers from Facebook 273 The chairman of the public organization Electronic Democracy Volodymyr Flents on 11 May 2020 announced that a Telegram bot appeared on the Web which sold the personal data of Ukrainian citizens It is estimated that the bot contains data from 26 million Ukrainians registered in the Diia application However subsequently deputy prime minister and minister of digital transformation Mykhailo Fedorov denied any data from the app being leaked The criminal activity of 25 people has already been confirmed and copies of 30 databases were seized 274 275 276 A Telegram bot was blocked by Apple in 2020 after posting deepfake pornography 277 Telegram reportedly banned more than 350 000 bots and channels in 2020 including those that contained child abuse and terrorism related content 278 Myanmar military edit Since the 2021 Myanmar coup d etat pro junta and pro military actors including nationalists and military lobbyists have exploited Telegram s lax content moderation approach to post violent and misogynistic content against resistance groups including the National Unity Government People s Defence Forces and individuals supporting a return to democracy 279 280 The move to Telegram was accelerated by Facebook and Instagram s ban of Myanmar military linked accounts and ads following the coup 281 282 These actors use Telegram to dox women political and human rights activists and journalists 283 279 The targeted individuals then become a target for physical sexual and online harassment 279 282 These accounts are used as intelligence sources by the Burmese military to track down and detain such individuals 283 These pro military accounts have also attacked independent media disseminated military propaganda and incited violence in the country 284 280 In addition Telegram is also pointed out to be used by fraud gangs in northern Myanmar assisted by the Myanmar military they use Telegram to communicate and carry out telecommunications fraud for Mandarin speakers and human trafficking for mainland Chinese 285 In March 2023 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Telegram to allocate resources to identify prevent and mitigate human rights abuses on its platform 279 As of March 2023 update Telegram had blocked at least 13 pro military accounts 279 Fraudulent jobs edit Telegram has received criticism for its failure to curb fraud on the platform The most common mode of fraud involves scammers sending messages to unsuspecting users offering part time online jobs which comprise a series of tasks Scammers employ a variety of confidence tricks to entice users into completing prepaid tasks in which users deposit money into scammers accounts with the expectation of receiving high returns 286 287 In July 2023 Hyderabad Police uncovered a fraud wherein 15 000 Indian citizens were duped out of 712 crore US 89 million in less than a year all related to prepaid tasks on Telegram a cybercrime police investigation of the money trail revealed that the fraud originated from China and the money was laundered by mules through cryptocurrency wallets 288 289 In September 2023 the Singapore Police stated that more than 6 600 Singaporeans had lost over S 96 8 million US 72 24 million to prepaid job scams on Telegram and WhatsApp since the start of the year 290 Reception editChannels have been used by celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger 291 and politicians President of France Emmanuel Macron 292 former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro 293 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan 294 President of Moldova Maia Sandu 295 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy 106 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador 296 Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong 297 President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev Taiwan President Tsai Ing wen Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others Security edit Telegram s security model has received praise and notable criticism by cryptography experts They criticized how unless modified first the default general security model stores all contacts messages and media together with their decryption keys on its servers continuously and that it does not enable end to end encryption for messages by default 298 299 Pavel Durov has argued that this is because it helps to avoid third party unsecured backups and to allow users to access messages and files from any device Criticisms were also aimed at Telegram s use of a custom designed encryption protocol 298 300 301 302 However in December 2020 a study titled Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram s MTProto 2 0 was published confirming the security of the updated MTProto 2 0 and reviewing it while pointing out several theoretical vulnerabilities 303 The paper provides fully automated proof of the soundness of MTProto 2 0 s authentication normal chat end to end encrypted chat and re keying mechanisms with respect to several security properties including authentication integrity confidentiality and perfect forward secrecy and proves the formal correctness of MTProto 2 0 This partially addresses the concern about the lack of scrutiny while confirming the formal security of the protocol s latest version 303 The desktop clients excluding the macOS client do not feature options for end to end encrypted messages When the user assigns a local password in the desktop application data is locally encrypted also Telegram has defended the lack of ubiquitous end to end encryption by claiming the online backups that do not use client side encryption are the most secure solution currently possible 304 In May 2016 critics disputed claims by Telegram that it is more secure than mass market messengers like WhatsApp and Line 78 as WhatsApp claims to apply end to end encryption to all of its traffic by default and uses the Signal Protocol which has been reviewed and endorsed by leading security experts while Telegram does neither and stores all messages media and contacts in their cloud 298 299 Since July 2016 Line has also applied end to end encryption to all of its messages by default 305 though it has also been criticized for being susceptible to replay attacks and the lack of forward secrecy between clients 306 In 2013 an author on the Russian programming website Habr discovered a weakness in the first version of MTProto that would allow an attacker to mount a man in the middle attack and prevent the victim from being alerted by a changed key fingerprint The bug was fixed on the day of the publication with a 100 000 payout to the author and a statement on Telegram s official blog 307 On 26 February 2014 the German consumer organization Stiftung Warentest evaluated several data protection aspects of Telegram along with other popular instant messaging clients Among the aspects considered were the security of the data transmission the service s terms of use the accessibility of the source code and the distribution of the app Telegram was rated problematic kritisch overall The organization was favorable to Telegram s secure chats and partially free code but criticized the mandatory transfer of contact data to Telegram s servers and the lack of an imprint or address on the service s website It noted that while the message data is encrypted on the device it could not analyse the transmission due to a lack of source code 308 The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF listed Telegram on its Secure Messaging Scorecard in February 2015 Telegram s default chat function received a score of 4 out of 7 points on the scorecard It received points for having communications encrypted in transit having its code open to independent review having the security design properly documented and having completed a recent independent security audit Telegram s default chat function missed points because the communications were not encrypted with keys the provider did not have access to users could not verify contacts identities and past messages were not secure if the encryption keys were stolen Telegram s optional secret chat function which provides end to end encryption received a score of 7 out of 7 points on the scorecard 309 The EFF said that the results should not be read as endorsements of individual tools or guarantees of their security and that they were merely indications that the projects were on the right track 309 In December 2015 two researchers from Aarhus University published a report in which they demonstrated that MTProto 1 0 did not achieve indistinguishability under chosen ciphertext attack IND CCA or authenticated encryption 310 The researchers stressed that the attack was of a theoretical nature and they did not see any way of turning the attack into a full plaintext recovery attack Nevertheless they said they saw no reason why Telegram should use a less secure encryption scheme when more secure and at least as efficient solutions exist 311 The Telegram team responded that the flaw does not affect message security 312 and that a future patch would address the concern 313 Telegram 4 6 released in December 2017 supports MTProto 2 0 which now satisfied the conditions for IND CCA 299 314 MTProto 2 0 is seen by qualified cryptographers as a vast improvement to Telegram s security 299 In April 2016 the accounts of several Russian opposition members were hijacked by intercepting the SMS messages used for login authorization 64 In response Telegram recommended using the optional two factor authentication feature 64 In May 2016 the Committee to Protect Journalists and Nate Cardozo senior staff attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation recommended against using Telegram because of its lack of end to end encryption by default and its use of non standard MTProto encryption protocol which has been publicly criticized by cryptography researchers including Matthew Green 298 On 2 August 2016 Reuters reported that Iranian hackers compromised more than a dozen Telegram accounts and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users as well as the associated user IDs Researchers said the hackers belonged to a group known as Rocket Kitten Rocket Kitten s attacks were similar to ones attributed to Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps The attackers took advantage of a programming interface built into Telegram According to Telegram these mass checks are no longer possible because of limitations introduced into its API earlier in 2016 315 Login SMS messages are known to have been intercepted in Iran Russia and Germany possibly in coordination with phone or telecom companies 64 316 317 Pavel Durov has said that Telegram users in troubled countries should enable two factor authentication by creating passwords in order to prevent this 64 316 In June 2017 Pavel Durov in an interview claimed that U S intelligence agencies tried to bribe the company s developers to weaken Telegram s encryption or install a backdoor during their visit to the U S in 2016 318 319 In 2018 Telegram sent a message to all Iranian users stating that the Telegram Talai and Hotgram unofficial clients are not secure 320 In March 2014 Telegram promised that all code will be released eventually including all the various client applications Android iOS desktop etc and the server side code 321 As of May 2021 Telegram had not published their server side source code 322 In January 2021 Durov explained his rationale for not releasing server side code citing reasons such as inability for end users to verify that the released code is the same code run on servers and a government that wanted to acquire the server code and make a messaging app that would end competitors 323 On 9 June 2019 The Intercept released leaked Telegram messages exchanged between current Brazilian Minister of Justice and former judge Sergio Moro and federal prosecutors 324 The hypothesis is that either mobile devices were hacked by SIM swap or the targets computers were compromised 325 The Telegram team tweeted that it was either because the user had malware or they were not using two step verification 326 On 12 June 2019 Telegram confirmed that it suffered a denial of service attack which disrupted normal app functionality for approximately one hour Pavel Durov tweeted that the IP addresses used in the attack mostly came from China 327 In December 2019 multiple Russian businessmen suffered account takeovers that involved bypassing SMS single factor authentication Security company Group IB suggested SS7 mobile signalling protocol weaknesses illegal usage of surveillance equipment or telecom insider attacks 328 329 On 30 March 2020 an Elasticsearch database holding 42 million records containing user IDs and phone numbers of Iranian users was exposed online without a password The accounts were extracted from not Telegram but an unofficial version of Telegram in what appears to be a possibly government sanctioned fork It took 11 days for the database to be taken down but the researchers say the data was accessed by other parties including a hacker who reported the information to a specialized forum 330 331 332 In September 2020 it was reported that Iran s RampantKitten ran a phishing and surveillance campaign against dissidents on Telegram 333 The attack relied on people downloading a malware infected file from any source at which point it would replace Telegram files on the device and clone session data David Wolpoff a former Department of Defense contractor has stated that the weak link in the attack was the device itself and not any of 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