9 Unique Features that makes Telegram the most powerful messenger APP

If you have been avid iMessenger user for the past 5 years like I have been, then you can most likely recall a memory when you send a text message to a group of your contacts but the responses would be either delayed or broken into separate groups when not everyone in the group was an iPhone user. In other words, anyone in the mass text message group who was not an iPhone user would have his or her messages delivered with the annoying green bar, leading to all forms of inconvenient miscommunications!

Then came Viber & WhatsAPP.  Granted, the emotional connection with iMessenger as well as its default capabilities within Phone made it very difficult for either Viber or WhatsAPP to become the go to messenger all the time, but at least they became a great solution to chat with your android buddies with the same speed delivery satisfactions of iMessener’s blue bars. In the case of WhatsAPP, the double check marks notifications for delivery messages, recent availability status updates of  friends, and browser messenger capabilities helped create a certain uniqueness with the APP that made you want to use WhatsAPP more.

Yet, turns out, there is another messenger APP that offers a combination of features and functionalities that neither iMessenger, WhatspAPP, Viber, or any other messenger provides the same way. Telegram, a messenger found by Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov in 2013, is a telecommunication messenger that would receive a lot of its early success from its usage in Iran starting in 2014 and as of March, 2018,  it is utilized by over 200 million different users around the world.

Here are 9 Features Unique to Telegram, making it the most Powerful Messenger APP

1. Edit/Delete Capabilities - Sending a message that contains a spelling error is inevitable. In the case of telegram, you can easily edit a previously sent message or if desired, delete the message completely for yourself and others in the chat group.
2. File Sharing & Compression - You are not limited to just video, audio, or text files with telegram - rather any type of of file can be sent via the messenger. Plus, with Telegram’s compression capabilities, you have the ease of sending files across networks in speedy fashion. Not to mention, Telegram’s user experience makes is very easy for one messages to be shared with multiple groups or contacts.
3. Secret Chats - Start a secret chat with self destruction timer that you set. Also with telegram’s end to end encryption, it will make it very difficult to have it hacked in any sort of way.
4. Super Groups - Share messages in groups of up to 5000 different people. Plus, make it easy for others to join the group by providing group invite links.
5. Channels - Similar to having an email list or a social media channel, you can have unlimited number of people follow your channel and receive update notifications each time you share new content.
6. Bots - Developers can create bots that can have perform different tasks. Examples include having bots for completing surveys, fetching music, pics, or stickers.
7. Multi Platform Support - Telegram can be downloaded on any device - iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, or LINUX. Plus, telegram web version can also be accessed through any browser. Given that Telegram also supports multi sessions capabilities for one user, it is very convenient to pick up and resume a telegram communication from one device to another.
8. Username - No need to give up your phone number’s privacy in order to chat with someone else on Telegram. With Telegram’s username capability, you can chat while keeping your phone number private, but also making it more convenient for business entities to be found through their usernames.
9. Cloud Storage-No reasons to worry about backups and restores as Telegram keeps all of your messages along with its files on the cloud.