The creator of the channel can decide who can post and other members can view the posts. I read somewhere that WhatsApp is now(2021 Jan) planning to bring that feature soon.Ī channel is somewhat similar to groups, which can accommodate an unlimited number of members. You can continue to send messages in a group without revealing your phone number. This ensures the privacy of the user’s contact number. You can communicate with anyone on telegram even if you don't have the contact number of others. For WhatsApp 256 is the maximum member capacity in a group. If you want to preserve the quality as such then choose the option send it without compression.Īs of today, a telegram group can afford a maximum of 200,000 members. Users can choose whether to compress the image and video or send the uncompressed version.įor example, you can send a raw jpeg image either it as raw or compressed. There is no cap on the total number of files that can be uploaded. Thereby you can download any file any time anywhere.Īs of today, we can upload a single file of max size up to 2GB. You can view the active sessions and see on which devices are you logged in now. You can log out and log in any number of times from any number of devices simultaneously without losing any data, you don’t need to worry about backup & restore. This means all your text messages, images media files & documents will be saved on their cloud. The telegram was launched in 2013 by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who previously founded the Russian social network VK, but had to leave the company after it was taken over by Group. At one point they applied for jobs at Facebook but were rejected. After Koum and Acton left Yahoo! in September 2007, the duo travelled to South America as a break from work. WhatsApp was incorporated in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees of Yahoo!. But the freaks, geeks cult prefer Telegram than WhatsApp. If there is a competent for WhatsApp, in all probability it might be the Telegram. It is a known fact that the majority of the smartphone users are users of WhatsApp messenger. It was one of the biggest gulps of acquisition at the time when Facebook brought WhatsApp. WhatsApp is the most engaged top social messaging application owned by the giant Facebook corporation.

There are lot of updates available for both platforms. Note: This article was initially published in 2017.

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