Telegram Bots：我现在可以开始聊天吗？

Question

https://core.telegram.org/bots clearly says:

Bots can't initiate conversations with users. A user must either add them to a group or send them a message first.

But if I visit https://telegram.org/blog/login it says

Telegram bots are a powerful communication tool, but until today they couldn't start a conversation. Even if you wanted them to reach out to you, you had to chat them up first. With the new login widget, moving from interacting with a website to a conversation on Telegram becomes completely frictionless.

So it is somehow possible to start a conversation via the login widget. But how do I do it? I get a user id. Is there an api endpoint to initiate a chat with the user?

Answer 1

The only way to begin conversing with a Telegram bot is to start the conversation with them yourself. There's no way for the bot to start a conversation with a user themselves.

Answer 2

正如您所说，电报清楚地表明机器人无法开始对话，机器人唯一能做的就是向旧对话发送消息（我的意思是用户必须开始对话）。