Telegram is rolling out its Stories feature to Premium users, the company confirmed in a tweet on Friday. The official rollout for Premium users comes a month after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the messaging app would be adding Stories in July. It's currently unknown when Telegram plans to launch Stories for non-Premium users.

At the time, Durov said users had been asking for the feature for years, noting that more than half of all feature requests that Telegram receives are related to Stories. The company was initially against adding Stories because they "are already everywhere," but wanted to listen to its users, Durov had said.

You will be able to choose who can see each of your stories with Stories on Telegram. You can set your stories to be visible to all, contacts, a selected number of contacts or a close friends list. Stories will appear in an expandable section at the top of your chat list. You can hide stories that any contact posts by moving them to the "Hidden" list in your Contacts section rather than the main screen.

In addition, you will be able to add captions and links to your Stories. There is also a feature of tagging other people in your Stories. Moreover, you will be able to post photos and videos captured by the front and rear cameras together in a BeReal style.

You can choose when your story expires. For instance, you can have it expire in six, 12, 24, or 48 hours. Alternatively, you can permanently feature stories on your profile page in much the same way that you might permanently feature story highlights using Instagram.

Durov said earlier that even internal tests of Stories had even the skeptics on the Telegram team to appreciate the feature and that Telegram cannot imagine the messaging service without it.