iPhone: Start a new message (tap the icon in the top-right corner in Chats).
Android: Tap the circular pencil icon in the chat list. Then ‘New Channel’.
Windows Phone: Tap the ‘+’ button on the bottom bar. Then ‘New Channel’.
This FAQ is about Telegram channels.
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Channels are a tool for broadcasting public messages to large audiences. In fact, channels can have an unlimited number of subscribers. When you post in a channel, the message is signed with the channel's name and not yours. You can appoint additional administrators to help you manage the channel. New subscribers can see the entire message history in a channel once they join.
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To create a channel:
iPhone: Start a new message (tap the icon in the top-right corner in Chats). Then ‘New Channel’.
Android: Tap the circular pencil icon in the chat list. Then ‘New Channel’.
Windows Phone: Tap the ‘+’ button on the bottom bar. Then ‘New Channel’.
Public channels have a username. Anyone can find them in Telegram search and join. Private channels are closed societies – you need to be added by the owner or get an invite link to join.
Please note that private channels with publicly available invite links will be treated in the same way as public channels, should it come to content disputes.
The owner of a channel can broadcast messages, delete any messages, add subscribers (the first 200 only), remove subscribers, change the channel's name, profile image and link, as well as delete the channel completely. The owner can also add and remove administators to help manage the channel.
You can set up administrator rights for each individual administrator when you appoint them.
If a message is deleted in a channel, it will disappear for all subscribers.
As the channel's owner, you may invite the first 200 subscribers to your channel. Once the subscriber count reaches 200, the channel is on its own. If it's a public channel, it will have a username and a telegram.me/ link (e.g. t.me/telegram) – you can post this link on social networks, advertise it in magazines, or tattoo it on your back. If you have a private channel, you can send an invite link to your friends.
Please do not send channel links (or other unsolicited messages) to strangers. If they report spam from your account, you may be banned from contacting other people, however good your intentions.
Each post in a channel has a view counter. Views from forwarded copies of your messages are also included in the total count. This way you can see how far it has spread.
Please note that these numbers are approximate — we don't want to keep a record for everything you've ever viewed. After a short while (around 4 days), Telegram will forget that you've seen a post and will count you again if you navigate to it. For this reason you may see several views for posts in a private channel where you are alone.
As the owner of the channel, you can enable admin signatures that users will see next to the view counters. These signature only mention the name of the administrator and no link to their profile.
If the signatures are disabled, there is no way for users to know whether a message was posted by the owner or one of the administrators.
You can add a discussion group chat to the channel, and your subscribers will see a comment button for each post in the channel. Comments show up in a thread of their own and also land in the discussion group to keep everyone in the loop and make it easier for admins to keep the conversation civil.
You can also use bots (e.g. the @like bot) to add buttons to your posts.
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Telegram, an instant-messaging platform, has gained popularity over the last few years. If you are looking for a platform that will allow you to get your message out and tap into a wider audience, then Telegram is the place for you. With their Channel feature, you can send out posts on whatever topic tickles your fancy.
Until recently, only admins could add content to Telegram channels. Telegram updated the platform, introducing a feature that allows users to comment under channel posts.
Here, we will look at how to interact with your Telegram channel subscribers by enabling comments in channels.
As a Telegram channel administrator, you can broadcast messages, create voice chatrooms, post videos, host podcasts, and so on.
Telegram now offers your subscribers the opportunity to post comments on your channel, turning what was once a one-sided conversation into more of a dialogue.
The comments feature isn’t a standalone item but is bound to discussion groups within the channel. Comments can only be posted on channels that have discussion groups. To enable comments on your Telegram channel, you will first have to link it to a discussion group. The guidelines below will walk you through enabling comments in your channel.
Click on “Link Group.”Once this is done, comment buttons will appear automatically beneath your posts. Your subscribers can now leave comments on your Telegram channel.
When a subscriber clicks on “Comment,” a separate chat opens up. This chat is visible to everyone on the channel. Users can also reply to comments posted by other subscribers. Subscribers who are not part of the discussion group can still read and post comments on the channel.
If you are accessing your Telegram account from your Windows device, this is how you go about adding comments to your Telegram channel:
You have now added comments to your Telegram channel on Windows PC.
For adding comments to your Telegram account from your Mac device, follow the steps below:
You have now enabled comments on your Telegram channel on a Mac.
If you are running your Telegram channel from an iPhone, this is how to enable comments:
Comment buttons will now appear automatically beneath your posts.
Telegram has an Android app that you can use to manage your Telegram account. If you are looking to use this feature to add comments to your Telegram channel, these are the steps you should follow:
”Adding comments to your Telegram channels is an excellent way to boost subscriber engagement and interest in your channel. Whether you are using a PC or accessing Telegram from the app, Telegram has now made it possible to enable subscriber comments on your posts. Taking advantage of this feature will not only clue you in on how your content is received, but it will also allow for more robust communication with subscribers. Adding comments on your channel need not be a complicated process with this guide. You can have the feature up and running within minutes.
Do you have a Telegram channel? What has your experience of interacting with subscribers been? Tell us about it in the comments section below.
Here we tell you how to send private messages to Telegram using a bot.
If you want to send messages not to private messages, but to a group in Telegram, then refer to this instruction.
To send something to Telegram, we first need to write information to a variable. You can collect several parameters, write them into variables, and transfer all these variables to Telegram. Before sending data, you must have a script section with writing to variables.
Complete this lesson to build a scenario.
After completing the lesson, you will have 5 variables:
Follow the instructions to publish the bot on Telegram.
If you have already published a bot in Telegram, go to the next step.
In order to receive a message in Telegram, the bot must know who to send it to. You can get chat_id of your account (or the account of the person you want to send this information to) so that you can send messages using the bot.
To get chat_id , create a new screen in the script with the text:
$rawRequest.message.from.id
Place this screen at the beginning of the script so that this screen is in the upper left corner . Thus, this screen will be the first one when the bot starts.
Click Publish and wait for the message that the script has been published on the Telegram channel.
Now go to your Telegram bot ( is not in the test widget! ) and send to the bot:
/start
If you want messages to be sent not to you, but to another person, then simply send this person a link to the bot. If this user communicates with this bot for the first time, the bot will immediately send the value
chat_id. If this user has already chatted with this bot before, then ask the user to send/startto the chat to get the chat_id.
The bot will send you the required value:
Copy and paste the number sent by the bot into notepad .
Remove the screen with text $rawRequest.message.from.id . He is no longer needed.
The next step is to send the data received from the client. To do this, in the script, after collecting all the necessary information , there must be an HTTP request block. Several variables can be passed at once with a single request:
The block must be formatted as follows:
GET
To create a URL, copy the line into notepad: https://api. telegram.org/bot
Then go to Telegram to the Botfather channel and copy your bot token, which was generated when you published the channel:
In a notebook select 9000
and instead of insert a tokeene from a tokeene Telegram:
You will get something like this:
Now select the entire line and paste it into the URL field of the HTTP request in Aimylogic
BODY In BODY we need to specify:
chat_id that we received earlier
If you repeated the lesson on collecting contact data, then in the script you received the following information:
Your name: $name Your last name: $lastname Your phone: $PHONE Your email: $EMAIL Type of service: $service
That's why we use these variables now.
So, you need to insert the value chat_id and list the variables that were in the script before sending.
Pay attention to indentation and punctuation! We recommend not typing, but copy and paste.
{ "chat_id": 123456789, "text": "Customer name: $name $lastname, phone number: $PHONE, email: $EMAIL, Service type: $service"}
Press Save .
Done, we have issued an Http request to send data.
From the "Completed successfully" logic, add a link to a new screen containing a message that the data was successfully sent.
For example, “Thank you, your data has been successfully sent!”
From the logic “Completed with an error”, we make a connection with the screen containing the text block “Error $httpStatus ”. This block will help us understand what the problem is if the http request is not successful.
Press Test and talk to the bot.
As a result of the dialogue, the necessary information should come to Telegram.
Note that the bot will send a message to your conversation with the bot. If you expect to receive a private message from some other account, you may be confused by this behavior. But in the future, when other people write to the bot, and you will receive messages from the bot, it will be more clear to you what is happening. Ask another person to send their name and phone number to the bot, and then you will receive a message from the bot.
Check if you are using $rawRequest in the script to get the name. If yes, then you need to test in the Telegram channel. In the test widget, the error will be expected to fall out, as the bot is trying to get information from a channel that does not exist.
Check that the URL in the http request is correct. There may be a space in the URL itself or at the end of the URL, or an invalid character may have been inserted by mistake.
Check that the http request is formatted correctly. Try deleting the Telegram bot at BotFather , recreate and use the newly generated token.
Check the formatting of the field BODY (syntax).
BODY : First and last line must contain only curly braces
Must be indented (you can press Tab or press Spacebar four times)
"chat_id": should be written like this (check for typos, or better yet, copy and paste):
"chat_id":
The value of chat_id should not be 123456789, but the real value you copied in step 3 (123456789 is the example for the tutorial)
A string containing "chat_id": must end with a comma
Colons must be followed by spaces
The value of the transmitted message text must be in the following quotes: " "
Telegram is a cloud-based messaging application that makes your communication even more convenient.
The platform allows you to transfer conversations between computers, smartphones and tablets. It also provides more security with its Secret Chats feature. But how exactly do you send messages in Telegram?
In this post, we will look at all the intricacies of Telegram messaging.
Sending a message to Telegram is as easy as in other similar applications:
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You can send a message to yourself using the Saved Messages feature:
Once Telegram bots are configured, users can interact with them by sending commands, messages, or requests. Here's how the process works:
If you are too busy to type, sending a voice message to a friend will save you time:
Private messages are also called private messages on Telegram. Sending them is relatively easy:
Telegram is not far behind other platforms in terms of the media you can send through the app. One of your options is a video message:
Using the API to send a Telegram message is a bit more complicated. You will need bot services:
You will then be asked to name your bot and give it a username. You will then receive a link to the bot and your API token. 
If your Telegram is not sending a message for some reason, two simple solutions will help:
If you can't send a message and the problem persists, it's best to contact Telegram Support.
Here you can describe your problem, enter your phone number and leave your email address. Hopefully their team will come up with a viable solution for you.
To send a message to the Telegram API, you need to configure the bot. You will then need to use curl or Python 3 to generate your chat_id and send a message using the sendMessage command.
Unfortunately, you cannot send SMS via Telegram. The app still does not support this feature.
If you thought you might not be using Telegram because of its cumbersome messaging features, now all your worries are gone. The app is easy to use and once you activate it, sending text messages is just as easy as on any other platform. Best of all, you can send videos, voice messages, and even set up bots and execute various commands. The options are almost limitless.
