Telegram Tales are now not restricted to paid customers

Telegram launched its Tales function to everybody in the present day, following its availability to Premium users beginning final month. Like Facebook Messenger’s Stories, they seem as expandable bubbles above your dialog. Nonetheless, Telegram’s take is extra customizable, offering granular management of who sees uploaded posts and for the way lengthy. “Now while you meet individuals on Telegram, you’ll see thrilling snapshots of their life — not just some profile pictures,” the corporate wrote in a blog post in the present day.

Launching alongside the messaging service’s tenth birthday, Telegram describes Tales as “by far the most-requested function” within the firm’s decade-long historical past. Its privateness controls embody visibility choices for everybody, all contacts, chosen contacts or shut mates.

Telegram’s Tales additionally allow you to conceal your posts from contacts you don’t need to see, and Premium customers can select between six, 12, 24 and 48 hours of visibility for brand spanking new posts. As well as, publish creators can see an inventory of the Telegram customers who considered their content material. It additionally helps a BeReal-like dual-camera mode, letting you concurrently share pictures or movies captured by your cellphone’s entrance and rear sensors. The function additionally contains reactions, so viewers can add a coronary heart or select from “tons of” of different responses to posts.

A few of Tales’ extra superior controls are reserved for Premium subscribers ($5 monthly). Maybe most vital, paying customers’ posts show first, giving them extra publicity. Subscribers may also view others’ tales in stealth mode, hiding all traces of their go to from the creator. Moreover, subscribers get the beforehand talked about customized expiration choices, a everlasting view historical past (see who considered your posts even after they expire), the power to avoid wasting Tales to the gallery, “10 occasions longer” captions and the next allotment of every day Tales (as much as 100).

Telegram Tales is scheduled to roll out to the service’s iOS and Android apps in the present day.