Usernames on Telegram are known to have some restrictions. While I think some of them are reasonable, there's a specific rule that is quite frustrating for me. Usernames are required to have a minimum length of 5 characters.
Reasons why Telegram should introduce shorter usernames:
• Easier, quicker and more fancy way to reach and promote public groups or channels
• Other services out there do already support shorter usernames (such as Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter ...)
Furthermore, there are quite a few users who have a 4 characters (or less) username on other services (i.e. Instagram or TikTok). They can't match their username on Telegram and are forced to fragment their identity because of this limit.
Extending the range from 5 to 4 characters opens only 150,000 “viable words” among the ~460,000 letter permutations, ~600,000 with 3 letters and a digit, and at max 1.9M permutations of 37 symbols (26 letters, 10 digits, underscore) (There are only 4,000 registered 4-letter words in English).
In conclusion, 1.9M new possibilities is probably not worth changing Telegram's limitation, considering the monthly growth of users.
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Moritz
"They can't match their username on Telegram and are forced to fragment their identity because of this limit." 1. You often have to have different names anyway, so this is just one more. 2. How many people do actually have that problem? 3. The few 4-letter-names will be gone very quick so most won't be able to use them anyway.
Btw: How did you got this suspiciously high number of thumbs up in this short time, with a topic that affects hardly anyone? Is someone with a lot of accounts preparing to grab these 4-letter-names?
While I agree that this is a useless feature, I must say that the number of thumbs up is not a strange thing. I think that the people voting/commenting are usually the same ones because most users do not usually engage on this, so the vote record is not very representative I must say. This is the ~typical amount of votes you usually get with any suggestion. So you can basically substract ~80 votes to any feature to check which ones are serious enough 😅
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In conclusion, 1.9M new possibilities is probably not worth changing Telegram's limitation, considering the monthly growth of users.
1. You often have to have different names anyway, so this is just one more.
2. How many people do actually have that problem?
3. The few 4-letter-names will be gone very quick so most won't be able to use them anyway.
Btw: How did you got this suspiciously high number of thumbs up in this short time, with a topic that affects hardly anyone?
Is someone with a lot of accounts preparing to grab these 4-letter-names?
official profile of Arturo vidal, player of the @flamengo and the chilean National football team.https://t
t.me/+LJE7-tPhhCc5Yzk0