“It has been a 12 months since Telegram began its monetisation, however the effects have already exceeded our expectancies. Telegram Premium, which we offered simply 5 months in the past, temporarily surpassed 1 million subscribers and has turn into one of the vital a hit examples of a social media subscription plan ever introduced,” the CEO said in the blog.
Privacy-friendly Public Channel-specific ads
Durov explains that “in contrast to different apps,” Telegram took a privacy-conscious approach to serving ads. He said the company decided that it would not use users’ personal data to serve ads and “promoted messages will have to most effective be proven in public one-to-many channels.” He said that this approach helped bring financial sustainability to Telegram.
“Thanks to a hit monetisation, Telegram will have the ability to pay for the servers, visitors and wages important to stay development new options and supporting present ones,” Durov said. He also said Telegram is working on various features that “will set the root for additional monetary expansion for Telegram in 2023.”
Telegram gets new features
The CEO’s post comes as Telegram announced a slew of new features. Telegram doesn’t show their users’ phone numbers to strangers. Users have control over who can see their number and whether others can find them by their phone number.
As an extension of this feature, new users can sign-up without a SIM card and log in using blockchain-powered anonymous numbers available on the Fragment platform offering more privacy to users.
Taking forward its auto-delete timer feature to clean up individual chats after a period of time, Telegram has announced that users can now further control their digital footprint by setting a global auto-delete timer to automatically remove messages in all new chats.
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