{"id":221208,"date":"2017-07-24T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T06:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=221208"},"modified":"2017-07-24T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T06:58:07","slug":"telegram-adds-disappearing-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/221208-telegram-adds-disappearing-photos.html","title":{"rendered":"Telegram adds disappearing photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/blog\/now-you-see-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Telegram<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0now allows users to set a self-destruct timer for photos and videos they share in private chats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you set a timer, the countdown starts the moment your recipient opens the photo or video you sent,\u201d said Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>After the time runs out, the photo or video will disappear &#8211; like in Secret Chats.<\/p>\n<p>If the recipient tries to take a screenshot of disappearing media, the sender will receive a notification.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram has also received a redesigned photo-editing tool, which \u201ctakes fewer taps to make photos look amazing\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Enhancements<\/h3>\n<p>Telegram 4.2 further allows users to add a bio to their profile.<\/p>\n<p>To enhance the performance of Telegram, it will now rely on a CDN to cache publicly-available photos and videos posted in massive channels (100,000+ members).<\/p>\n<p>This will result in higher download speeds for millions of Telegram users around the world, it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/205490-telegram-voice-calling-launched-in-south-africa.html\">Telegram voice calling launched in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram 4.2 allows users to set a self-destruct timer for photos and videos they share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":97437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[23753],"class_list":["post-221208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-telegram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221260,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221208\/revisions\/221260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}