Telegram Tales are not restricted to paid customers

Telegram launched its Tales characteristic to everybody immediately, following its availability to Premium users beginning final month. Like Facebook Messenger’s Stories, they seem as expandable bubbles above your dialog. Nonetheless, Telegram’s take is extra customizable, offering granular management of who sees uploaded posts and for a way lengthy. “Now while you meet individuals on Telegram, you’ll see thrilling snapshots of their life — not just some profile pictures,” the corporate wrote in a blog post immediately.

Launching alongside the messaging service’s tenth birthday, Telegram describes Tales as “by far the most-requested characteristic” within the firm’s decade-long historical past. Its privateness controls embrace visibility choices for everybody, all contacts, chosen contacts or shut buddies.

Telegram’s Tales additionally allow you to cover your posts from contacts you don’t wish to see, and Premium customers can select between six, 12, 24 and 48 hours of visibility for brand spanking new posts. As well as, publish creators can see an inventory of the Telegram customers who seen their content material. It additionally helps a BeReal-like dual-camera mode, letting you concurrently share pictures or movies captured by your telephone’s entrance and rear sensors. The characteristic additionally consists of reactions, so viewers can add a coronary heart or select from “tons of” of different responses to posts.

A few of Tales’ extra superior controls are reserved for Premium subscribers ($5 per 30 days). Maybe most important, paying customers’ posts show first, giving them extra publicity. Subscribers may view others’ tales in stealth mode, hiding all traces of their go to from the writer. Moreover, subscribers get the beforehand talked about customized expiration choices, a everlasting view historical past (see who seen your posts even after they expire), the power to save lots of Tales to the gallery, “10 occasions longer” captions and a better allotment of day by day Tales (as much as 100).

Telegram Tales is scheduled to roll out to the service’s iOS and Android apps immediately.