How To Send Video Messages in Telegram and How to Use Telescope in Telegram

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A messaging app which is known for it's simple, fast and secure with over 100 million active users around the world in just two years launch a new features on May 18, 2017. The latest update is 4.0 version which adds two big features - Telegram Telescope and Telegram video messages. Along with this update, Telegram also added Payments for Bots and the Telegram Instant View Platform. In this post, we will look into these news features and show you how to use them.

How To Send Video Messages in Telegram

With this 4.0 update, you can now directly send video message within your normal message chat. Here's how to send video message in Telegram Messenger. Before enjoying this new feature, first you will need to update your Telegram Messenger app from your respective app store. If you are on Android go to Google Play Store, for iOS go to Apple App Store and for other devices you can head over directly to the official Telegram website.

1. Once updated, open your Telegram app as you normally do.
2. To send a video message or video chat, open chat or select your friend or contacts to whom you want to send the video message or chat.

3. Now Tap on the Microphone icon, if you are using Telegram for the first time, you might need to give permission to allow Telegram to take pictures and videos. Tap on the Allow button.

4. Once you tapped on the mic icon, switch the mode to camera. Now, tap and hold the camera icon and to record a video message.
5. If you are not satisfied with the video you are recording, just slide to the left to cancel.

6. If you are on a multi task or tired of holding on the video icon, you can drag it up or slide it up to let the video record itself.

7. Once you are done recording, just release the button to send the video to that person.
8. You can also preview the video before sending it. Also, you can delete that video if you decided to start fresh one. Just tap on the Delete icon on the right side.

9. That's it.

Please note that Video messages are automatically downloaded and auto played by default, however you can always change this in Settings if you’re on a limited data plan. Telegram also gives you the option to freely browse your other chats while watching your video message. The video will pop up in a corner and continue playing. At the same time, you can move the video around the screen and pause it from anywhere in Telegram.

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How to Use Telescope in Telegram

Telescope is a dedicated video hosting platform for telegrammers who use videos to communicate with their audiences. People often addresses their fans via public channels on Telegram and this
Video messages will make their connection to fans more direct and intimate than ever before. With this new feature, public video messages can now go viral beyond the Telegram app. This Telescope hosts auto played round videos of up to 1 minute in duration. This is the same format that is used for Telegram video messages. With this new feature, you don't need a Telegram account to view them.

Every public channel on Telegram will now have a telesco.pe URL, for example such as telesco.pe/channel name.

All it's video of such telegram channel video messages are now available on the net or web. Suppose, whenever you post a video message to your public channel, it will also be uploaded to Telesco.pe and have a public URL that can be accessed by anyone. It means that, people without Telescope account, will be able to view your public video messages and can also share them on to their Twitter or Facebook accounts.

Telegram Instant Views

Another feature which was added was Instant View, which allows instagrammers to view and enjoy articles from any website or blog in a uniform and easily readable way. Not jus showing the text of an article, Instant View pages supports images as well as videos and other media. Even not well optimized website also works great. Instant View pages are super lightweight and cached on Telegram servers itself to serve better, so they load instantly even on a slow internet connection.