Amidst fierce competition between instant messaging applications, to gain confidence and suspend more users and thus maximize profits, Telegram announced its intention to launch the conference call feature next month.
Telegram already supports individual video calls, as well as group voice calls, which are the same features that are available in most instant messaging services, but the new feature provides users with the advantage of making group video calls.
On the purpose behind the new feature, social media expert Ahmed Bassiouni told Sky News Arabia, "By launching the new feature, Telegram wanted to achieve a comparative advantage over other instant messaging applications, on top of which is WhatsApp, to attract more users, and then maximize profits. Which is the goal of all technological applications."
For his part, digital media and e-marketing consultant Muhammad Al-Harithi believes that the reason for Telegram's launch of the conference video call feature is "to keep pace with the change in the future of social communication after the Corona pandemic," citing the example of the great success that Club House achieved after the outbreak of the global crisis.
Al-Harthi explained, in statements to "Sky News Arabia", that "chat rooms are the future of social media for their ability to bring people closer to each other in light of the divergence imposed by technological progress and current global conditions." .
Telegram promises to add a touch of privacy that is famous for the application to video conference calls, as the calls will be fully encrypted and with the highest possible performance, to preserve the privacy of users' data.
On privacy, Bassiouni says, in statements to "Sky News Arabia", "Telegram pays special attention to the issue of preserving the privacy of users, which is its biggest bet with its users and the most characteristic of the application for them." In recent months in favor of attracting more WhatsApp users."
While Al-Harithi believes, "All applications are vulnerable to cyber penetration," and he also believes that "Telegram is not more secure than WhatsApp as it is believed," and his justification is that "WhatsApp is the most used, the most famous in the world, and therefore it is the most vulnerable to penetration."
The new feature provides advantages such as noise isolation, screen sharing, as well as support for operating calls with mobile, computer and tablets through the web browser, as there will be no need for uploading operations or downloading applications to access these conversations, according to what was posted by Service Manager Pavel Derov on his account Official Telegram.
Al-Harthi, in statements to "Sky News Arabia", expects that the new feature will contribute to increasing the number of Telegram users, but despite this, he believes that "it remains among the applications used by specific groups, which are the categories that search for unlicensed visual content, unlike WhatsApp." Which spreads between all groups and circles. "
Bassiouni believes, in statements to "Sky News Arabia", that Telegram is unable to dislodge WhatsApp from the throne of the most used instant messaging application, due to the continuous growth of Facebook and its possession of the technological and physical infrastructure necessary to secure its lead, but at the same time he believes that it is able to compete. As long as it continues to release new features that keep pace with technological development and the fierce competition between these applications.
While Al-Harithi expects that Telegram will provide "secret or closed rooms" in the future, which do not allow everyone to join them, unlike Club House, which enables its users to request joining any chat, which, in his opinion, may be an underlying danger.
The Source: skynewsarabia