The bio is the line under your name on your profile. It is seventy characters on a free account, a hundred and forty with Premium, and anything in it that looks like a username or a link becomes tappable.
Seventy characters is less than this sentence. That constraint is the whole exercise: one line that tells a stranger who you are and gives them one place to go next.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Write a bio that works inside the character limit instead of fighting it.
- check_circle Turn a mention or a channel address into a working link without any markup.
- check_circle Keep out the things that make a public bio a liability.
- check_circle Read someone else's bio for what it does and does not prove.
The counter runs down as you type, and it counts every space — which is why most first drafts have to be rewritten rather than trimmed.
badge What the field does on its own
You write plain text and Telegram finds the addresses in it. A word beginning with @ becomes a link to that account or channel; anything shaped like a t.me address or a web address becomes a link too. There is no syntax and no button — typing the thing is how you link it.
The result appears anywhere your profile is opened: from a chat, from a group member list, from a forwarded message. It is the one piece of self-description that reaches people who have never spoken to you.
What seventy characters should carry
There is room for about three things. These are the three that earn it, and the one that keeps getting in.
person A role, not an adjective
link One destination, not four
t.me form rather than a shortener. It is readable, it proves where it goes, and shorteners attract spam filtering.campaign The thing you would say next
warning Things a public line should not contain
A shape that fits: role, one link, one instruction. In that order, because the first is what makes the second worth tapping.
settings Editing it
- Open your profile Settings, then the edit control at the top.
- Find the Bio field Under your name and username. The counter shows what is left.
- Write it plainly No markup. Usernames and addresses become links because of what they look like.
- Read it back as a stranger The test is whether someone in a group who has never spoken to you learns something useful.
- Save It updates everywhere your profile is seen.
This page is the one line under your name. The curriculum step covers the rest of the profile as a public surface: what your photo shows and to whom, keeping a public face separate from a private one, and what a stranger can assemble from all of it together.
At a glance
- 1Write within the limit
A short bio that says what people need to know.
- 2Links work
@mentions and t.me addresses become links automatically.
- 3Bios prove nothing
Anyone can copy a bio; it is not verification.
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