Pavel Durov

All Telegram chatbots can now stream responses to users in real time — great for AI assistants.

There’s a new war, yes. But there’s also a new Telegram update. New features > new war. What’s new: Member Tags, Login with Telegram, Disable Sharing, GIF Editing, Date Formatting, Voting Timestamps, Streaming Responses for Bots. telegram.org/blog/member-ta…

@grok @danfulaniweb3 Thanks, Grok, you are starting to grow on me.

Yes, stats back it up. Numbeo 2026: Dubai crime index ~16 (safety 84), UAE ranks #1-2 safest country globally. European cities average 40-55+ crime index (London ~45, Barcelona 52, Paris similar). Missile risk? Extremely low-probability event vs daily petty/violent crime in many EU spots. Dubai's strict enforcement keeps streets safer overall.

Unfortunately, I had to leave Dubai for Europe a week ago — so I’m not only missing the free fireworks from Iran, but also exposing myself to greater risk. Given Europe’s crime rates, Dubai is statistically safer even with missiles flying. Can’t wait to be back.

@TateTheTalisman One has to admire the risk appetite of those vacationing in London. Brave souls!

@mahyar_qz BTW, if you ever rebrand your country, ‘Persia’ would be a strong upgrade. Just saying! 🙃

@durov From islamic republic not IRAN. Thx

@stats_feed Poor Turin (the 24th). It used to be perfectly safe when I lived there in late 80s — early 90s.

Europe’s Most Dangerous Cities, according to citizens (crime index): 1. 🇬🇧 Bradford: 67.1 2. 🇫🇷 Marseille: 65.3 3. 🇬🇧 Coventry: 65 4. 🇬🇧 Birmingham: 64.4 5. 🇮🇹 Naples: 62.8 6. 🇫🇷 Grenoble: 61.2 7. 🇫🇷 Montpellier: 61.1 8. 🇧🇪 Liège: 60.7 9. 🇫🇷 Nantes: 58.5 10. 🇫🇷 Paris: 58.1 11. 🇫🇷 Lyon: 57.5 12. 🇬🇧 Manchester: 56.2 13. 🇫🇷 Nice: 55.8 14. 🇸🇪 Malmö: 55.5 15. 🇬🇧 London: 55.3 16. 🇬🇷 Athens: 55.3 17. 🇵🇹 Amadora: 55.2 18. 🇺🇦 Odessa (Odesa): 55.2 19. 🇧🇪 Brussels: 54.9 20. 🇮🇪 Dublin: 54 21. 🇺🇦 Dnipro: 53.9 22. 🇮🇹 Milan: 53 23. 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki: 52.5 24. 🇮🇹 Turin: 52 25. 🇪🇸 Barcelona: 51.7 26. 🇬🇧 Nottingham: 51.2 27. 🇪🇸 Bilbao: 50.6 28. 🇧🇾 Minsk: 50.5 29. 🇮🇪 Drogheda: 50.5 30. 🇮🇹 Bari: 50.2 Source: Numbeo, as of August 2025

Russia has opened a criminal case against me for “aiding terrorism.” Each day, the authorities fabricate new pretexts to restrict Russians’ access to Telegram as they seek to suppress the right to privacy and free speech. A sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people.

@euro_xXx_euro The Telegram API already supports streaming messages and threaded chats — perfect for AI chatbots 👌

@durov can you introduce streaming finally? a bot(backend) has to be able to stream(chucking and updating the message is not the case)

Telegram built the most powerful API for chatbot and mini app developers — and made it free. We keep expanding it with features like these colored buttons and custom emoji. Track what’s new: core.telegram.org/bots/api

@alexanderrX_ Not really. WeChat launched in 2011 and competed not only with dozens of domestic Chinese apps, but also with international ones like WhatsApp (blocked in China only in 2017 — by which point WeChat had already secured dominant market share in fair and open competition).

@durov Was WeChat not successful because china banned all competitors?

Russia’s hope that it can create tech “national champions” by banning all their competitors is delusional. Every real national super app was forged in fierce private competition (WeChat, KakaoTalk, LINE). Competition and innovation are two sides of the same coin.

@paoloardoino Fanaticism rebrands itself every few generations in Europe: catholic inquisition -> fascist squads -> today’s speech commissars. The thread is always anti-reason and anti-freedom. Common sense is the ultimate heresy there.

The political establishment in Europe is increasingly behaving as it did during the Inquisition when Galileo was punished for simply describing reality. “And yet it moves”, dared to say Galileo.

@toniniebla33 We’re thinking about it.

@durov "I would like the chat header to look like the iOS visual. The header is much prettier."

Telegram for Android got its biggest redesign in 10 years. A few details to iron out, but it’s mostly complete — and already available to everyone.

@gegegefest @elonmusk @evanspiegel Nice theory, but doesn’t add up. The same people (like the Spanish prime minister and his pet media outlets) call Elon a “techno-oligarch”, too. It’s just a label they use to manipulate people that has nothing to do with how much we promote health/fitness.

People who call me an “oligarch” clearly don’t know what the term means. If I were close to any government (instead of opposing their constant attacks on freedom), I’d be 10x more successful by now. Everything I’ve achieved was despite governments, not thanks to them.

@CdeBurner Liquid Glass is switched off on Android by default, but our users can enable it in Settings if they wish.

@durov so even android bros get liquid glass? 🤣

@hiMolaHola We shipped the iOS redesign last month.

@durov When will you launch for iOS?

@bitcoinzulu I’ll take that.

@durov Freedomgarch!