How can I get Telegram channel URL?

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• Create Telegram Channel Link: 6 Steps
• What is the Telegram URL?
• What does a Telegram URL look like?

Q: What's a channel?

Channels are a tool for broadcasting public messages to large audiences. In fact, channels can have an unlimited number of subscribers. When you post in a channel, the message is signed with the channel's name and not yours. You can appoint additional administrators to help you manage the channel. New subscribers can see the entire message history in a channel once they join.

If you'd like an example, join our official Telegram channel to get notified about our updates.

To create a channel:
iPhone: Start a new message (tap the icon in the top-right corner in Chats). Then ‘New Channel’.
Android: Tap the circular pencil icon in the chat list. Then ‘New Channel’.
Windows Phone: Tap the ‘+’ button on the bottom bar. Then ‘New Channel’.

Q: How are public and private channels different?

Public channels have a username. Anyone can find them in Telegram search and join. Private channels are closed societies – you need to be added by the owner or get an invite link to join.

Please note that private channels with publicly available invite links will be treated in the same way as public channels, should it come to content disputes.

Q: What can administrators do?

The owner of a channel can broadcast messages, delete any messages, add subscribers (the first 200 only), remove subscribers, change the channel's name, profile image and link, as well as delete the channel completely. The owner can also add and remove administators to help manage the channel.

You can set up administrator rights for each individual administrator when you appoint them.

Q: What happens if I delete a message?

If a message is deleted in a channel, it will disappear for all subscribers.

Q: How do I add people to my channel?

As the channel's owner, you may invite the first 200 subscribers to your channel. Once the subscriber count reaches 200, the channel is on its own. If it's a public channel, it will have a username and a telegram.me/ link (e.g. t.me/telegram) – you can post this link on social networks, advertise it in magazines, or tattoo it on your back. If you have a private channel, you can send an invite link to your friends.

Please do not send channel links (or other unsolicited messages) to strangers. If they report spam from your account, you may be banned from contacting other people, however good your intentions.

Q: What does the eye icon mean?

Each post in a channel has a view counter. Views from forwarded copies of your messages are also included in the total count. This way you can see how far it has spread.

Please note that these numbers are approximate — we don't want to keep a record for everything you've ever viewed. After a short while (around 4 days), Telegram will forget that you've seen a post and will count you again if you navigate to it. For this reason you may see several views for posts in a private channel where you are alone.

Q: How do I know who posted a message?

As the owner of the channel, you can enable admin signatures that users will see next to the view counters. These signature only mention the name of the administrator and no link to their profile.

If the signatures are disabled, there is no way for users to know whether a message was posted by the owner or one of the administrators.

Q: Are there any feedback options?

You can add a discussion group chat to the channel, and your subscribers will see a comment button for each post in the channel. Comments show up in a thread of their own and also land in the discussion group to keep everyone in the loop and make it easier for admins to keep the conversation civil.

You can also use bots (e.g. the @like bot) to add buttons to your posts.

A Telegram channel is a great way to stay in touch with the people who care about your cause or brand. You can create Telegram channel link and share it across your other groups for non-members to join and become members. Channels help you to broadcast your message to a larger audience. Here, large means an unlimited audience as there is no limit to the number of people who can subscribe to your channel. So, it is great for your business, advertising, sharing important updates, and alike. You can even recover deleted telegram channels and create a link for them to start using them again.

Create Telegram Channel Link: 6 Steps

Step-1 Open The Application: Well, firstly you need to get on the application. You can install the Telegram app on your android device and get going with the steps.

Step-2 Tap on Your Channel: Now, you need to search for the channel for which you want to create a link. Once you find that channel, click on it to open it.

Step-3 Tap on the Channel Name: At the top of the channel's chatbox, you see your channel's name. You can go further by clicking on that.

Step-4 Edit Icon: By clicking on the channel's name, you get its general information and details. You can see the channel description, the number of members and administrators, and even the current channel link.

• To create Telegram channel link and update it, you need to click on the edit icon.
• The edit icon is at the top-right corner in a pencil shape.

Step-5 Tap on Channel Type: From here, you can go to channel type to change the telegram channel link. Just below the details of the group, you can see the option of 'channel type.' Click on that.

Step-6 Create Channel Link: Under the channel type, your cursor will be at the public link option by default. Create Telegram Channel link by typing the name here. Create a personalized channel link that reflects the purpose of the channel and thus, it is done.

Why Create A Personalized Telegram Channel Link? 

When you share the link across your groups for others to join, they might not open the link and take a look at the channel description for joining. They will read the link and decide whether to go further with joining or not. So, your link should briefly give an idea about your channel for maximum members who are interested to join

What's the Use of a Telegram Channel? 

• Telegram channels provide one-to-many interaction. This means that only the admin can put messages in the channel. So, whatever you put, will be surely viewed by the members and not lost in the long chat.
• You can post not only text messages, but video, audio, files, links, and even schedule them before time.
• Channels also have an option of statistics. By this, you can track your growth and where it's coming from.
• Channels are beneficial for a business that wants to keep updating about its products. It is good for teachers who want to keep posting reading material for students.
• It is good for media organizations to give updated news on the go, round the clock.

You can find the use of the Telegram channel and work accordingly. Care about a cause? Make a channel for that and keep posting about the developments in that cause happening around the globe. You can even pin messages on the telegram channel so that it is the first thing that your subscribers see.

What is the Telegram URL?

What does a Telegram URL look like?