The coronavirus is changing the way we communicate, train and work. Billions of people are telecommuting, millions of people without going to class or university and millions of families without being able to see each other. However, we have an ace up our sleeve which is technology, video calls and messaging applications. One of the most popular is Telegram. A few hours ago I announced the reaching 400 million active users. In addition, they have confirmed that secure video calls will come to the application during this year 2020.
An update from Telegram with COVID-19 in mind
One of the greatest virtues that Telegram has is the amount of new features that are added in each update. In addition, they are responsible for showing them in a peculiar way, as if it were a story that you could not stop reading. On the other hand and taking advantage of the new version of the app, the messaging application has announced the arrival to the 400 million active users worldwide with an average of 1,5 million new users per day.
The current global lockdown highlighted the need for a reliable video communication tool. Video calls in 2020 are very similar to messaging in 2013. There are applications that are safe or with good usability, but not both. We would like to fix that, and we will focus on providing you secure group video calls en 2020.
Much of the update that Telegram has released revolves around provide options to the app during lockdown. One of those news has been the launch of secure video calls before the end of the year. In addition, they have taken the opportunity to launch a poisoned dart at all those apps that do not offer security and good usability at the same time. Therefore, the paper plane social network aims to be the app that changes the paradigm of video calling as we know it.
In addition to this announcement, a contest with a prize of 400.000 euros among all the quiz question creators on your @QuizBot bot. Telegram argues that with more than 2 billion students outside the classroom, it is necessary to have online tools that avoid losing the knowledge taught in classes. To do this, they have launched a collective initiative to create a database of educational questions of all kinds within your bot.
On the other hand, they have added a sticker search engine where we can search for the ideal among the more than 20.000 stickers that have been indexed so far. Finally, improvements have been added to the design of the Telegram app on macOS. And a random animated bullseye emoji has been added on all platforms.
