Telegram rolls out its Tales function to Premium customers | TechCrunch

Telegram is rolling out its Tales function to Premium customers, the corporate confirmed in a tweet on Friday. The official roll out for Premium customers comes a month after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the messaging app can be including Tales in July. It’s presently unknown when Telegram plans to launch Tales for non-Premium customers.

On the time, Durov stated customers had been asking for the function for years, noting that greater than half of all function requests that Telegram receives are associated to Tales. The corporate was initially in opposition to including Tales as a result of they “are already all over the place,” however wished to hearken to its customers, Durov had stated.

With Tales on Telegram, you may determine who can see every of your tales. You’ll be able to select to have your Tales viewable by everybody, your contacts, a number of chosen contacts or a listing of shut mates. Tales shall be positioned in an expandable part on the prime of your chat checklist. You’ll be able to conceal Tales posted by any contact by shifting them to the “Hidden” checklist in your Contacts part as a substitute of the primary display screen.

As well as, you may add captions and hyperlinks to your Tales. There’s additionally the choice to tag different folks in your Tales. Plus, it is possible for you to to put up photographs and movies taken with the entrance and rear cameras concurrently in a BeReal-like fashion.

You’ll be able to select when your story expires. For example, you may have it expire in six, 12, 24, or 48 hours. Or, you may completely show Tales in your profile web page in a method that’s just like how Instagram allows you to show Story highlights.

Durov beforehand stated that following inner checks of Tales, even the skeptics on the Telegram staff began to understand the function and that Telegram can not think about the messaging service with out it.