Telegram functionality has been revamped with two new items: paid photos and videos, and the ability to buy short nicknames. What is it, how does it work and (most importantly) how much does it cost?
Paid photos and videos
Private posts in the channel feed are hidden with bright animations and their content is only available to users after payment. You can use the function using a special @donate bot and it’s available on channels with 100+ viewers. At the same time, the authors set the price of the content on their own (from 200 rubles to 60 thousand and from one euro to a thousand euros), and a bank card is suitable for payment (including rubles for shipments for one euro) .
The editors of Durov Code said for more information on how to use the function.
Paid aliases
Auctions for the sale of nicknames are held on a special Fragment platform, and a short nickname can be used for channels and personal profiles. The minimum bid for a four-letter nickname is 10,000 (or 1.2 million rubles) in the Toncoin cryptocurrency, but its size may decrease until the first potential buyer is found. Users can also auction their nicknames, and the winner is the one whose price was not blocked by a higher price during the week.
Now the most valuable names are already on sale, for example @bank (63k Toncoin), @elon (10.3k Toncoin), @adidas (4.9k Toncoin).
At the same time, Code Durov writes that Fragment is not a subsidiary of Telegram, that the platform sells digital objects to users, and that Telegram “only provides privileges associated with them.”
Earlier, in August of this year Telegram removed the addresses of channels that were inactive last year. According to Pavel Durov, this is 70% of all nicknames on the site.
Source: People Talk
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