# [2021.04.16] Telegram in Emacs

For a short time, I used an Emacs package `telega` for running
Telegram in Emacs. It worked not perfectly but then suddenly stopped.
Yesterday I found out that BitlBee has `libpurple` (a backend library
for `Pidgin` messenger) integration. And voilĂ , now Telegram is
available in an Emacs buffer with no problems. I remember once I even
used `Pidgin` for things like `ICQ`, but I didn't follow the project
for years since then.