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A subscription with “premium” features appears in Telegram beta: here’s what we know

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Telegram has been exploring ways to generate revenue to continue its growth for a long time. As a result of this need, the platform started showing ads on

A subscription with “premium” features appears in Telegram beta: here’s what we know

Telegram has been exploring ways to generate revenue to continue its growth for a long time. As a result of this need, the platform started showing ads on mass channels last year. could be the next step charging users for using “special” features the app

According to the Telegram Beta channel, users of the 8.7.2 beta version of the iOS app have found a feature in development called “Telegram Premium”. This is a subscription that will provide the possibility to use it to all users who decide to pay. custom stickers and reactions in chats.

A subscription on the Telegram way

As we can see in the image below, among the premium stickers we see a crying yellow duck, a celebrating crocodile, a fruity heart and a monkey doing different moves. In the reactions section, we see things like heart rain, happy clown, thumbs down, fear emoji.

Since this is a test, we do not know if the subscription includes more stickers and reactions, among other additional features. For example, the ability remove ads in channels bodied. Recall that Telegram founder Pavel Durov said last year that he would give users the ability to disable them.

Telegram Premium

We also do not have information about the price of the subscription and its possible arrival date. It should be noted that the features that appear in beta versions of the application they don’t necessarily reach stable versionsso the Telegram subscription may be rolled out at some point in the future or just stay that way.

In any case, given this scenario, many may wonder what will happen to the app. Do we lose some functions? Will we have to pay to use some of them? If we consider a Durov promise given in the past, all Telegram features that are free should remain free.

At the moment, Telegram has not announced any subscriptions, but we won’t have to wait long to clear any doubts. In a few weeks, version 8.7.2 of the app (where Telegram Premium appears) will leave the beta channel and go into stable state. We could get more news there.

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