The article deals with the linguistic specificity of telegram channels as a new type of mass media. In the current situation, the content of the telegram channel is becoming one of the leading ways to get information, while many institutions and famous personalities run their telegram channels as an addition to social networks or as the only representation option. The analysis of the content of those telegram channels that do not fully reproduce the content of the social networks of the corresponding subject made it possible to identify such features of the text as the expansion of the use of the pronoun “we” in the inclusive function, the predominance of “I” messages, the construction of the text as a discrete continued dialogue with the possibility of returning to any point, the expansion of short and ultra-short creolized texts.
telegram; telegram channels; new media; discourse.