By Annie Palmer For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:38 GMT, 25 March 2019 | Updated: 22:38 GMT, 25 March 2019
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Telegram is giving users more tools to control their message history.
The encrypted chat app on Monday launched 'delete everywhere,' a feature that lets users delete messages from not just their end of the conversation, but for all recipients.
And there's no time limit, either, as users can delete any message no matter how old it is.
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The encrypted chat app on Monday launched 'delete everywhere,' a feature that lets users delete messages from not just their end of the conversation, but for all recipients
The free application lets people exchange messages, photos and videos in groups of up to 5,000 people.
Telegram is especially popular among political activists of all stripes, and is used by the Kremlin to communicate with journalists, but has also been used by jihadists.
The app has proved to be incredibly popular.
Last March, it announced within the last 30 days, Telegram was used by 200 million people.
'This is an insane number by any standards,' the firm said.
'If Telegram were a country, it would have been the sixth largest country in the world.'
'We are giving hundreds of millions of users complete control of any private conversation they have ever had,' Telegram explained in a blog post.
'You can now choose to delete any message you have sent or received from
