Telegram marketing glossary
Short definitions of the words you cannot do without when working with Telegram accounts: from sessions and warm-up to FloodWait and neurocommenting.
Accounts and access
- Session (.session)
- A file holding a Telegram account's authorisation key for the Telethon library. With it, software logs into the account without an SMS code. Usually sold together with a .json that holds the device parameters and the seller's data.
- tdata
- The Telegram Desktop folder with login data. It can be moved to another computer or turned into a session without logging in again.
- 2FA (cloud password)
- The account's second password, asked after the code. You cannot log in on a new device without it, and some actions, such as deleting a large channel, require it to have been set for several days.
- ProxySOCKS5, HTTP
- An intermediate server the account reaches Telegram through. An account should use its own permanent proxy from the very first login: changing addresses and logging in from a data-centre IP trigger checks.
- MTProto proxy
- A proxy on Telegram's own protocol. It is set by address, port and secret, with no login or password.
- Warm-up
- Calm, ordinary activity of a new or bought account before work: joining channels, reading, reactions, chats. An account with a history gets limited later.Read more
- Resting period
- The time after purchase or registration when an account simply exists with no active actions, before warm-up starts.
- Age by ID
- An estimate of the registration date from the account's numeric ID: IDs are issued in ascending order, so neighbouring IDs registered at about the same time. Accurate to a month.Read more
- 777000
- The ID of Telegram's service account that sends login codes and notices. Its first message in an account shows the exact registration date.
Telegram limits
- Spam block
- A limit from @SpamBot: the account cannot message people outside its contacts. It is either temporary, with a lift date, or permanent.Read more
- Geo spam block
- A spam block tied to the number's country: the account can message only people with numbers from the same country.
- Freeze
- An account block for breaking the rules: you can log in but cannot act until an appeal is approved.
- FloodWait
- Telegram's «wait N seconds» answer to actions of one kind that come too often. Retrying before the time is up only makes the pause longer.Read more
- PeerFlood
- A refusal to deliver a message to a stranger once the account has already written to too many. It usually comes before a spam block.
Work and metrics
- Neurocommenting
- Comments under channel posts written by a neural network from the post's meaning. They bring people to the account's profile and on to your channel or bot.Read more
- Neurochatting
- Neural-network messages in open chats on the topic of the conversation, so the account looks like a participant rather than an ad.Read more
- Inviting
- Adding users to your group or channel from accounts that are allowed to do it.Read more
- Mailing
- Direct messages to a list of users from several accounts. The fastest way to a spam block when sent quickly and with one text.Read more
- Mass reactions
- Reactions to posts and messages from many accounts. Channel owners and authors see the profile that reacted.Read more
- Masslooking
- Viewing stories at scale. The account lands in the viewers list, and some authors visit its profile.
- Parsing
- Collecting public data: chat members, comment authors, channels on a topic. The result becomes the audience for other modules.Read more
- ER (engagement rate)
- Views or reactions relative to subscribers. Shows whether a channel is really read or its subscribers are inflated.