Telegram is rolling out its Stories feature to Premium users, the corporate confirmed in a tweet on Friday. The official roll out for Premium users comes a month after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the messaging app could be including Stories in July. It’s at the moment unknown when Telegram plans to launch Stories for non-Premium users.
At the time, Durov mentioned users had been asking for the feature for years, noting that greater than half of all feature requests that Telegram receives are associated to Stories. The firm was initially towards including Stories as a result of they “are already everywhere,” however wished to hear to its users, Durov had mentioned.
With Stories on Telegram, you may determine who can see every of your tales. You can select to have your Stories viewable by everybody, your contacts, a couple of chosen contacts or a listing of shut pals. Stories shall be positioned in an expandable part on the prime of your chat listing. You can cover Stories posted by any contact by shifting them to the “Hidden” listing in your Contacts part as a substitute of the principle display.
In addition, you may add captions and hyperlinks to your Stories. There’s additionally the choice to tag different folks in your Stories. 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 type.
You can select when your story expires. For occasion, you may have it expire in six, 12, 24, or 48 hours. Or, you may completely show Stories in your profile web page in a means that’s related to how Instagram permits you to show Story highlights.
Durov beforehand mentioned that following inside checks of Stories, even the skeptics on the Telegram staff began to admire the feature and that Telegram can now not think about the messaging service with out it.
