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Telegramannouncedon Wednesday that it ’s add fresh ways for Godhead to make money on its weapons platform . Most notably , the platform is launching monthly compensate subscription that users can purchase using the app ’s digital currency , Stars , to get access to a creator ’s superfluous substance .

Content creators can now make receive inter-group communication that permit drug user to connect a canal in exchange for a monthly payment in Stars . The idea behind the lineament is to let Maker to bear down for excess or early approach to content in a way that ’s like to Patreon .

Creators can place the price for their content and can change over Stars into   Toncoin   cryptocurrency wages or subsidized ads . Telegram takes a commission from transaction involving Stars , but the caller has n’t specified how much .

Telegram is also launching Star Reactions , allow users to directly back their favorite content creators . Star Reactions is similar to YouTube ’s “ Super Thanks ” feature film and X’sTipsfeature . Creators get 100 % of the Stars they find via the Reactions feature .

The Modern features build on Telegram ’s current crusade to aid God Almighty bring in money through its chopine . Last calendar month , the company started letting creatorsshare paid contentto their channel , and a few months ago , Telegram launchedad revenue sharingwith creators .

Today ’s announcement get along as Telegram reached950 million active userslast calendar month , and aims to cross the 1 billion mark this year . originally this twelvemonth , Telegram founding father Pavel Durov say the companyexpects to hit profitabilitynext twelvemonth and is considering going public .