Telegram rolls out its Tales function to all customers

Telegram is formally rolling out Tales to all customers, the corporate introduced on Monday. The function first launched to Premium customers final month, and is now accessible to everybody on the platform. At present’s announcement comes as Telegram is celebrating its tenth birthday.

One main issue that units Telegram’s new function other than Tales on different platforms is the truth that customers have the choice to edit them after posting. On platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, Fb and TikTok, you don’t have the choice to edit a Story as soon as it’s reside. If you wish to change one thing, you must delete the Story after which begin once more. Telegram is taking a distinct method with its Tales function.

“For the primary time within the historical past of social media, you possibly can replace any aspect of your story at any time – altering its visibility, caption, on-screen textual content, stickers or anything – with out having to delete and repost it from scratch,” Telegram wrote in a weblog put up.

The remainder of Telegram’s Tales expertise is just like these on different platforms.

You may select to have your Tales viewable by everybody, your contacts, a couple of chosen contacts or an inventory of shut pals. Tales shall be positioned in an expandable part on the prime of your chat listing. You may disguise Tales posted by any contact by transferring them to the “Hidden” listing in your Contacts part as an alternative of the principle display screen.

Customers can select when their story expires. As an illustration, you possibly can have it expire in six, 12, 24 or 48 hours. Or, you possibly can completely show Tales in your profile web page in a manner that’s just like how Instagram permits you to show Story highlights. As well as, you possibly can add captions and hyperlinks to your Tales. There’s additionally the choice to tag different individuals in your Tales. Plus, it is possible for you to to put up pictures and movies taken with the entrance and rear cameras concurrently in a BeReal-like fashion.

Though Tales at the moment are accessible to all customers and simply not paid customers, Telegram remains to be providing Premium customers a perk on the subject of Tales. Premium customers can allow a function known as Stealth Mode that erases their views from any tales they opened previously 5 minutes, and hides what they view for the following 25 minutes.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov mentioned again in June that customers had been asking for Tales for years. The corporate was initially in opposition to including Tales as a result of they “are already all over the place,” however needed to take heed to its customers, Durov had mentioned on the time.