often confused with the username feature, a profile name on Telegram is your real name or nickname which will always be displayed next to your profile picture.

a tool for broadcasting messages or news to a large audience

a Telegram Premium feature that lets you display a Custom Emoji next to your profile name.

A type of a group that can have up to 200K members, and has exclusive features such as public usernames and chat history. It is often created when upgrading from a basic group.

A type of group which only supports up to 200 members, and harbours basic features such as sending and replying to messages. Pinned messages, public usernames and other features are supported when a basic group is upgraded to a supergroup.

Also known as a Broadcast Group, a gigagroup is a type of chat which supports up to 500K members. Only administrators of a gigagroup are allowed to send messages.

A semi-official Telegram client made and optimised for Windows 10 and 11, built using the UWP framework. Created by Fela Ameghino.

Chats that are synced with the cloud and are accessible from all of your devices. They use standard client-server encryption, making them less secure but letting them have more features in contrast to Secret Chats.

Secret Chats are separate, end-to-end encrypted chats which provide an additional layer of security, yet with the sacrifice of features in comparison to Cloud Chats.

three sets of entirely separate and sandboxed servers which are dedicated for the testing of new features

a Telegram employee who helps out with the TSF, and has made some of the posts for Telegram's Twitter account #people

the official platform that connects Telegram with the TON Blockchain fragment.com #platform

a cloud-based messaging platform with a focus on speed and security #platform

Telegram Mini Apps are a web-based platform where developers can build bots that offer more interactive experiences, for instance, Notcoin. #platform

an official platform created by Telegram dedicated to reporting bugs from official clients, as well as suggesting features / ideas #platform

a platform where users can browse Telegram-related definitions and learn newfound information #community #platform

The name of the legal entity behind Fragment which is registered in the Eastern African republic of Seychelles. Telegram claims that they are not related with them, but according to a tweet made by Pavel Durov it was they who made it.

a community project that tracks changes made to Telegram’s apps and websites @tgcrawl #community

a Bot API framework for TypeScript and JavaScript that is used in Telegram’s official bot tutorial grammy.dev #lib

a Russian mathematician, brother of Pavel Durov, and the author of MTProto #people