The 4th of July Telegram gifts sold out within minutes. It took just 45 seconds for all 15,000 🦅 Crystal Eagles (around $100 each) to be claimed. The 300,000 🗽 Statues of Liberty were gone in under 5 minutes. All 500,000 🔥 Liberty Torches sold out in just 10 minutes.

👨‍💻 Telegram’s looking for an Android dev — who’ll earn $1M / year after tax. 🥇 The only way in is to win our coding contest that ends on July 11. The task? Implement the animation from this mockup in our open-source Android app. 🤖

🎥 My first attempt at recording a video in French (at the request of @LePoint 🇫🇷). Forgive my French! 😉

The biggest interview I’ve ever done — and the first I’ve given to the French press. People deserve to be informed! I’m told an English version is also coming, so stay tuned.

RT @OsloFF: As governments demand more control over online platforms, Pavel @Durov lays out his vision for a secure, decentralized future w….

📣 Such a media environment is alarming. This is why platforms like Telegram are so important — we enable people to access all points of view and decide for themselves. We believe people are smart and can be trusted with the unfiltered truth. ✊.

In just the 7 weeks following my arrest in Paris, Le Monde published 40 negative articles about Telegram. In violation of journalistic ethics, they did not ask us for a comment in 37 of these 40 articles and always ignored the factual corrections we sent them. 🤦‍♂️.

📰 The French media hasn’t lost interest in Telegram. Last week, Le Monde, the country’s main newspaper, invited its readers to report whether they watch pirated football matches on Telegram. This attempt to crowdsource a negative story about us is a part of a broader strategy.

🎙 A week ago, Tucker Carlson published an interview with me about what happened in France. It was covered by media in many countries — except, interestingly, in France. 🤐.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” — Ronald Reagan.

9+ months after I learned about the investigation against me in France, I still don’t understand why it began. At first, the authorities claimed Telegram didn’t respond to French requests — but it turned out they’d been ignoring the EU and French law, and hadn’t sent us a single.

RT @TuckerCarlson: Telegram founder Pavel Durov has effectively been under house arrest in France since he was arrested there ten months ag….

Telegram Collectible Gifts went up in price several times in the past 30 days. TON is now the #1 blockchain by daily NFT trading volume (or #2 after Ethereum if off-chain trades are not counted). Data: and

In case you missed it — the latest Telegram update is epic:. — 📥 Direct messages in channels.— 🖼 HD photo sharing.— 🗂 Topic tabs in group chats.— ✂️ Voice message trimming.— 📊 Expanded poll options. This lays the foundation for more in the weeks ahead.

Trimming voice messages — today on Telegram. In a few years, everywhere else with the exact same UI 💅

The new threaded chats are pretty sick 😮‍💨

🔥 This summer, Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market. @elonmusk and I have agreed to a 1-year partnership to bring xAI’s @grok to our billion+ users and integrate it across all Telegram apps 🤝. 💪 This also strengthens Telegram’s financial