Founder, CEO at @telegram (2013), founder, ex-CEO of @vkontakte (2006), part-time troll.
Joined September 2008
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We now support rich formatting for all chatbots.
Tables, nested lists, inline media, formulas, headers and more — right in Telegram messages.
🔨 Start building! Docs: core.telegram.org/bots/api#r…
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Jun 12
🔄 Telegram’s new update is out. Lots of great new features.
Most importantly: the announcement is actually fun to read.
telegram.org/blog/watch-apps…
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Jun 11
Telegram is now on Wear OS.
Owners of Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, Xiaomi Watch and other smartwatches — enjoy! ☕️
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Jun 9
⌚️ A fully native Telegram app for Apple Watch is out.
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May 23
WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud.
The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to “virtually all” private messages.
Now we know what WhatsApp’s founder meant when he said he “sold his users’ privacy.”
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May 21
Your Telegram inbox can now run itself.
Assign a bot to read and reply for you — with granular control over its permissions and chat access.
API docs: core.telegram.org/bots/featu…
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May 19
💪 Anyone can now create their own text transformation style — for example, “Gym Bro” — and turn any message into motivational protein poetry.
🏋️ Then share the style with friends so they can reply like gym bros too.
🔒 All fully confidential. No AI-related privacy leaks.
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May 18
🤖 AI devs asked for this — and we delivered.
💬 Bots can now talk to other bots on Telegram.
🧠 Autonomous agents now have a communication layer humans can follow.
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May 17
🏆 We just awarded $52,420 to the winners of the Telegram Art Contest.
🎨 The participants did an amazing job with the MiniDurov collectibles.
💎 Their skills and ideas will enrich Telegram’s TON-based NFT ecosystem.
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May 16
🇦🇪 Dubai is full of traffic and crowds again. Already missing the Iranian fireworks — they helped clear the city of the easily impressed.
The UAE’s air defenses proved excellent under fire. For 0% tax, we get better protection than Europeans paying 50%.
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May 15
$100,400 just went to the 15 winners of the TON Consensus Challenge.
The smartest engineers on the planet — some armed with loyal AI sidekicks — helped us maximize the security of the new consensus mechanism.
Telegram contests are the only path to joining our engineering team.
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May 14
Now you can search 100M Telegram stickers and emoji by keyword — in 36 languages.
Telegram’s AI scans and labels millions of public stickers to help you find the exact suspicious frog you need.
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May 12
🌍 With 400 validators across 6 continents, TON is one of the most decentralized blockchain networks on the planet.
Telegram becoming the largest validator opened the door for major exchanges and custodians to stake TON without increasing centralization risk.
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May 11
🛠 Developing for TON just became 10x faster. The new toolchain makes smart contracts easy to create, test, and deploy. Most importantly, fully AI-ready.
It replaces TON’s fragmented tooling stack with one dev flow. Start building! ton-blockchain.github.io/act…
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May 10
📊 Channel admins can now run massive polls limited to subscribers or specific countries — making fake-vote inflation much harder.
Now people in places like Russia can see real results. For example, only 5% support internet restrictions — not 52%, as old rigged polls claimed 🙃
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🥖 The French government is accusing X of the very things the French government itself is doing:
- Illegally collecting personal data
- Processing personal data without proper security
- Extracting data from automated systems
- Violating the secrecy of electronic communications
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May 9
The French government is panicking. They know a major political shift in 2027 will expose their misdeeds — so they’re trying to silence free speech platforms under whatever pretext they think they can get away with.
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✊ The free world should stand with @elonmusk and X against this immoral assault by the French state. Telegram supports our brothers and sisters from X in their fight for our freedoms.
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