Pavel Durov to give away 10,000 subscriptions to Telegram Premium: He spends $200,000 on this

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced the launch of a special promotion, in which he will give away 10,000 subscriptions to Telegram Premium for six months. According to him, $200,000 was spent on this giveaway.

“To celebrate our new feature, I’m hosting a giveaway of 10,000 Telegram Premium subscriptions. In a week, 10,000 random subscribers of my channel will receive a Telegram Premium subscription for 6 months,” he wrote.

The results of the event will be announced on November 13 at 18:00. Considering that the number of subscribers on Pavel Durov’s channel is about 1 million people, the chances of receiving a prize for each participant in the competition remain quite high. At the moment, it turns out that every hundredth subscriber can become the lucky owner of a premium subscription. However, it is possible that after the official announcement of the giveaway, the number of channel subscribers will increase significantly.

What new feature is he talking about?

As Durov announced the day before, fair giveaways can now be held on every Telegram channel. Giveaways, in which channel authors promise to give out prizes to random followers, are held quite often. But many of them turn out to be scams, and there is usually no way to prove that the winner was chosen fairly.

Telegram is the first social media platform to natively support giveaways with guaranteed random selection and prepaid prize funds.

It looks like the giveaway of 100,000 premium subscriptions is intended to demonstrate the capabilities of the new feature.