Telegram to quickly introduce Stories characteristic, broadcasts its founder Durov

Messaging app Telegram will likely be launching Stories quickly, its founder and chief government officer Pavel Durov introduced. This characteristic is in a testing part and will likely be out in July this yr.

On his Telegram channel, Durov stated that greater than half of all characteristic requests that he receives is said to Stories. Meta’s Facebook and Instagram do have this characteristic.

While saying the replace, the Telegram founder additionally stated the Stories characteristic will make the app extra ‘social and fun’. The person will have the ability to outline who will have the ability to view his/her Stories, i.e everybody, solely contacts, few chosen contacts or an inventory of Close Friends.

Durov stated the Stories will likely be positioned in an expandable part on the prime of the chat checklist which makes it simply accessible. A person will have the ability to simply cover Stories, and in addition transfer it to the ‘Hidden’ checklist within the Contacts part.

Durov stated the Stories characteristic not solely has photograph and video-editing instruments, but additionally permits captions so as to add extra context or hyperlinks and tag different folks. The customers will get an choice to put up pictures and movies taken by entrance and rear cameras concurrently.

The customers will have the ability to decide when their story expires, i.e in six, 12, 24 or 48 hours. They may select to completely show tales on the profile web page with particular person privateness settings for every story.

Durov stated the app will launch the power to repost measages from channels to tales.