Telegram is a of the safest online messaging apps that exist today and that millions of users relegate when they need a little privacy.
Today it has been updated with a great novelty and with which it is allowed add friends without necessarily knowing their phone number. The update for Android and iOS has introduced the option to register a username, although yes, users still have to link their account to a phone number in order to use the service.
Advantages of nicknames
The advantage of being able to use a username is that you can share the contact details with Telegram without the need to reveal the phone number, a plus, without a doubt, for privacy. One of the greatest features of this online messaging service.
Usernames or nicknames must be a minimum of five characters long and can contain letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. And this option is totally free as long as the new username is not taken by another user.
More news a la Snapchat
But not only is the thing left here with this new version of one of the most complete online messaging services that exist, since incorporates some element of the popular Snapchat. Which by the way, how many apps we have seen since they are inspired by this self-destructing photo sharing app.
This new Snapchat-like feature allows users to press and hold to display photos, video and voice messages that will be sent with a self-destruct countdown.
Regarding this capacity for self-destruction, we must have the novelty that supposes that this type of content has a counter that will start the moment the receiver opens it. So now they will no longer destroy themselves, but until they have been opened the countdown will not begin.
Match by match
Do not forget about Telegram, since it seems that it has the same strategy as the popular Atlético de Madrid coach as is Simeone with his motto «match by match».
In all Telegram updates, they are incorporating novelties that are adding to a great application that comes complete with news, and that if they continue like this, at some point it will be able to rival WhatsApp. A very close example case is Android. Who would tell the almighty Apple in its principles that Android could be a rival to fear?
Telegram was founded by the brothers behind the Russian social network VK, so their backs are very wide In order to endure from now on, and with the emphasis on security, surely little by little they will be able to incorporate more users to their messaging app.
I always prefer real names to be used as nicknames and anonymity were never good on social media.