messaging_candidates:telegram
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====== Telegram use notes ====== | ====== Telegram use notes ====== | ||
- | Telegram uses an SMS-enabled phone number for account creation and as your default user identifier. You have the option of creating a username which others can then use to contact you with, but this is an additional step that most users are not going to take the time to do. It's also not yet clear to me whether communicating with a user via her username also reveals that user's phone number. | + | Telegram uses an SMS-enabled phone number for account creation and as your default user identifier. You have the option of creating a username which others can then use to contact you with (without revealing your phone number), but this is an additional step that most users are not going to take the time to do. It also doesn't seem possible |
- | To start a conversation, | + | To start a conversation, |
===== Android app ===== | ===== Android app ===== | ||
- | The app has a feature that lets you invite users to Telegram in the form of a list of contacts from your contact list. When you ask the app to send an invite, it will send them an SMS directing them to get the app. | + | The app has a feature that lets you invite users to Telegram in the form of a list of contacts from your phone' |
- | * The version of the app I used fails to send SMS to invitees unless Google Hangouts is the default SMS app. | + | |
- | * It's unclear | + | |
===== iOS app ===== | ===== iOS app ===== |
messaging_candidates/telegram.txt · Last modified: 2015/07/16 02:34 by mithat