Telegram now allows you to mention users and use tags

The most secure messaging application to date continues to evolve and find its place in this crowded market. We are talking about Telegram, which has redesigned group conversations with its latest update, taking advantage of what it has learned on the social networks to be able to structure and make a conversation that can already bring together no less than 200 people more useful and orderly In this way, it offers the tools so that information is always accessible and users can receive data without forgetting or getting lost in a sea of ​​messages.

The new update reaches both mobile platforms Android and iOS , like the different versions of Telegram for computers. In the first place we must talk about mentions. In the same way as the social network Twitter, from now on the group conversations of Telegram They can contain messages where one or several users are named using the symbol @ and the nickname of the user (if they have one). This causes those users to receive notifications about the message in which they were mentioned, even if has muted the conversation A good idea to draw their attention to a topic under discussion if they don't seem to be paying attention to the conversation.

Also, next to mentions, in the same way as in Twitter , the hashtags have also arrived It is about sending messages where a word is preceded by a asterisk or. In this way it becomes highlighted, being able to click on it to find how search results to other users and conversations where it has been writtenSomething that helps to quickly jump to those chats and find other messages about it. But the news from Telegram and its group chats does not end here.

Along with these two main functions it is worth noting the introduction of respond to specific commentsIn this way there will be no misunderstandings in group conversations, since they begin to behave like the Twitter wall or timeline Just make a long press on a chat message (double tap on iPhone) to access the Reply option. In this way, and even if the message sent appears at the end of the conversation, will remain attached to a previous one This becomes clear thanks to the mark on the last message, in addition to the possibility of click on it to access the message that originated it and with the which is linked. A good way to avoid bream conversations with misunderstandings by responding untimely to past messages.

Finally, all that remains is to talk about the possibility of add comments when forwarding messages. Something that helps contextualize the reason for this forwarding, being able to give reasons or recall the story of what such and such thing was said.

In short, a new way of seeing and using group conversations, making things much easier when it comes to letting users know specific information, or avoiding misunderstandings due to decontextualization. Issues that can already be enjoyed in the latest version of Telegram available both on Google Play and in App Store totally free