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Telegram presents its update 8.7, which comes with interesting news for its users.
Currently, Telegram has more than 550 million monthly active users, according to the 2021 Social Networks Report by We Are Social.
WhatsApp is the most important instant messaging application on the market, with more than two billion users worldwide.
Telegram just released its 8.7 updatewhich comes with several new features for the more than 500 million active users that the platform hosts.
According to report data Social Networks 2021 developed by We Are Social and published in October of last year, Telegram has just over 550 million monthly active users worldwide.
For a few years, we have seen how Telegram is becoming more and more consolidated as an instant messaging platform or social network, without forgetting that the competition with WhatsApp is extremely complicated.
However, this does not seem to be a big problem for the platform, because, despite not being the most used social network, this does not mean that it is a forgotten platform, quite the contrary, and it is constantly being updated in order to to reach new audiences.
Last year was, in short, an important year for Telegram, especially after the Meta blackout that affected Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and which, in turn, allowed the social network developed by the brothers Nikolai and Pável Durov will add about 70 million users who now have access to all the news that it presents in each update.
Telegram is updated and presents several new features
This day, as part of that impulse to continue growing, the instant messaging application has just released its 8.7 update, which comes with several new featuresamong which stand out that users can now customize the sound of their notifications.
The idea is that, with this new update, users will be the ones to develop their own sounds using audio files of up to five seconds in length and even voice messages.
On the other hand, in addition to being able to create their own sounds, users also have the opportunity to silence notifications in a personalized way. Previously, Telegram added the option to silence notifications during preset times, but now it is the Internet users who will be able to choose the duration of this function.
Among other novelties that this new update of the platform contemplates, the message translation option comes with more languages and an improvement in the operation of this tool, according to what Pavel Durov’s company reveals.
Through your website, the social network listed all the new features and/or tools that complement its 8.7 update.
WhatsApp, following in the footsteps of Telegram
Recently, Meta’s social network launched a new beta in which it would start testing the sending of files of up to 2GBone of the functions that users had requested the most, according to a company report.
WhatsApp is the most important instant messaging application on the market, which, according to data from Statista, has more than two billion users worldwidea fact that places it well above other social networks such as Facebook Messenger (also Meta), WeChat, Skype and Telegram.
However, it is clear that the emergence of competition has been reducing the growth of WhatsAppalthough the Meta platform continues to lead the market.
That is why, for some time now, WhatsApp has also been updated as other instant messaging services add new users.
Now, as part of that expansion that WhatsApp is looking for, it recently released a new update that will allow the sending of files weighing up to 2GBl, an important change if we consider that the social network previously had a limit of 100 MB for sending of files.
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