T he WhatsApp team has used the same method as Telegram to bring their Stickers to the app, and, of course, there are now users who want to extract the Stickers from Telegram. That’s why some people have decided to share the links to download and export Telegram stickers to use them on WhatsApp.
ATTENTION:. You need to update your WhatsApp version to the 2.18.329 Android (the reception is enabled since the 2.18.310 Android) and the 2.18.100 iOS updates in order to remotely receive the activation of the Stickers feature. Note that the activation is very slow on IOS! Android users should be immediately able to use the feature on 2.18.329. If you have already updated but you don’t see the feature, please back up your chat history and reinstall WhatsApp, if you don’t want to wait more.Every time you reinstall WhatsApp, the most updated configurations from the server are downloaded, enabling the feature for you. Seen that it’s necessary the 2.18.100 update for IOS, all iPhones having iOS 7 won’t be able to use this feature.
Precedent versions will not receive the feature.
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Figure out which of Telegarm's feature/s each person you're trying to convert would like most, and then sell them on that, ending with 'and oh yeah, it does all this other cool stuff too, if you're interested.' Like, for my artist friends, I talk about how you can make your own stickers. For my friends who actively use multiple platforms, I talk about how Telegram has an app on every platform and everything wirelessly syncs. For people who use Tumblr too much, in-chat animated gifs. As a more specific example, I run a Magic the Gathering club for my town, and we use a bot in our group chat for getting card information, which in turn is appealing to them. And for friends spurned by Skype, I share Telegram's benign devs and constant good updates.EDIT: Forgot to mention that the fact that it automatically adds anyone in your contacts with a Telegram account is also something that's been convenient for getting people on. No hassle on their end if they want to try it out with just me.Although, a chat client is useless without friends, so maybe get a group of friends to join together to really help the transition.TL;DR Figure out what they want most out of Telegram's incredible repertoire.
As pointed out, sell them telegram n what they would find most useful. Telegram has so many features.
There's something for everyone. At the same time it doesn't drown the user in its complexity. Don't want to use a feature? You don't have to. For normal users it's basically just another messenger. These are also the hardest to convince, since theiy already have something convenient, like whatsapp.I usually just bug people from time to time with 'you should really try telegram sometimes, they just added xyz feature.' Others I challenge, to soneone I even promised to chat with them every day for a full month.
They're hooked.I find that my 'best friends' all got aboard pretty quickly, and the people not willing to just install one simple app for their friend are probably 'just not that into you'. Some get caught on the wrong foot and make a power issue out of it like ' no I am not just installing something because you told me to!' (dude I'm only trying to make your life better)In the end the worst enemy is convenience. People stay on their beloved whatscrap because most people are already there. This only changes if you get people to change.
Ask someone, 'what improvements did whatsapp get since fb bought it? With such tremendous ressources they could surely at least get on par with other messengers. But nope, seems like fb only bought them for all the mobile numbers linked with real names.'
In the meantime I built a to relay messages from whatscrap to telegram. So at least you don't need to open that shit ever again. You're better off staying with Whatsapp than switching to Telegram. But use for calls and messages on and if you care about privacy. There's a Chrome/Chromium addon that's in beta. And it's free software (GPLv3).It's sort of like iMessage for Android.
The app also handles sms so it doesn't feel like a separate app, even if none of your friends have it today there's no reason not to keep it installed. IOS doesn't let other apps handle sms though so it just sends encrypted messages.From the website:Use anything by Open Whisper Systems.Edward Snowden, Whistleblower and privacy advocateSignal is the most scalable encryption tool we have. It is free and peer reviewed. I encourage people to use it everyday.Laura Poitras, Oscar winning filmmaker and journalistI am regularly impressed with the thought and care put into both the security and the usability of this app.
It's my first choice for an encrypted conversation.Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security technolgistAfter reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.Matt Green, Cryptographer, Johns Hopkins UniversityTo quote Moxie (who made Signal) on Telegram.Here's the situation: people hem and haw about Telegram's cryptography, but what we should really be talking about is that Telegram is not using end to end encryption by default. Telegram stores your entire plaintext message history server-side. There is nothing worse when it comes to privacy, but it's very easy to write slick clients when they're just views onto the server and all the logic happens there.Optional security is dumb. How about doing end to end encryption by default and giving people the option to turn it off for when they absolutely don't want the contents of their messages to be private? Silly when you think about it like that right?Their server software is proprietary and the source isn't available.
Also see the last three twitter links if you don't want to go through all links. There will always be a trade-off. You won't have state of the art security and privacy and all the convenience features the normal user expects from a messenger. The latter is needed to get enough people on board to make a messenger viable.At the moment Telegram hits my needs I demand from a messenger right on the spot. My initial argument to leave Whats App was that it was bought by Facebook and recently it was made public that Facebook plans to cross reference its data with the data it got/gets from WA.I am not a privacy buff, but even I know that too much data in the hands of a single company is not good. Fortunately Telegram even is also a better product than WA, which becomes abundantly clear when we take a look at the Web- or Desktop clients, and even the bot functions and the ease to develop them.I would be willing to give Signal a try, but the desktop client is a Chrome plugin.
That's not a real desktop client. I prefer something without additional dependencies. I won't install Chrome/Chromium to use a 'desktop client'.Also what's the deal with wanting permissions for functions that are not even implemented yet?Furthermore, hearing 'Use anything by Open Whisper Systems.' By Snowden seems really odd. He is probably referring to a specific product and literally advertises anything from that organization.Don't get me wrong, if there would be some messenger that unites the advantages of Signal and Telegram, I would be sold immediately.
But this turf war is getting really tiring. I am not a privacy buff, but even I know that too much data in the hands of a single company is not good.The thing is that Signal and Whatsapp don't keep your messages on their server. Telegram does.It's not really a turf war.
Telegram is marketed as being secure which made a lot of people switch, but in reality that's not true. Signal is best in class when it comes to privacy and security while Whatsapp is still better than Telegram. If someone wants to use Telegram because it has stickers they're free to do that, but they should have the facts. Op however also mentions data privacy and for that Telegram is actually worse than Whatsapp and definitely worse than Signal. Marginal improvement in what sense? When considering privacy, Telegram is by far the worst option. They store the plaintext message history on the server of every message that every user has ever sent or received.Even if WhatsApp weren't using end to end encryption by default, they would have no way of complying with government requests like this one, because they simply don't have the messages.
Telegram, on the other hand, is a surveillance dream.I think this is the worst example. We have already mentioned far better ones. The fast desktop client and the bots for example.You're missing the point, which is that whatever reason you have to use Telegram is fine, but security/privacy shouldn't be one of those reasons.
If you want an app with a large user base and decent security pick Whatsapp. If you want an app with great security pick Signal.The problem is that Telegram is marketed as secure when it isn't. If you want to use it that's fine, just be aware of that.