Sharing your valuable opinion is something everyone loves, just like filling out surveys and participating in polls. That's why you can confidently add polls in Telegram for better audience engagement.

What is a poll in Telegram?

Subscribers love to share their opinions on social media and also to find out if their opinions align with the majority. A poll is a convenient tool for receiving feedback from Telegram channel subscribers. With a poll, you can learn about their interests and opinions and offer the most suitable products or services. Additionally, it helps increase subscriber loyalty. When people see that their opinions are considered and changes are made based on them, they become more engaged and interested in your project.

What are the types of poll formats?

Depending on the type of audience response needed, choose the most suitable type of poll.

1. Standard

This type of poll allows you to choose only one answer from several options. By the way, a standard poll includes up to 10 answer options.

2. Multiple-choice

A multiple-choice poll also contains up to 10 answer options. However, the user can select multiple answers — even all at once.

3. Quiz

A special poll format in Telegram that helps increase subscriber engagement and entertain them. The quiz has a predefined correct answer, but you can only find it out after the poll ends. In the quiz format, only one option can be marked.

It's worth mentioning voting separately. If a user can cancel and change their answer in a poll, as well as add a new one, then in the voting format, you can vote only once, and nothing can be changed.

Poll rules in Telegram

The rules for conducting polls are not that many. For example, they can be placed in both groups and Telegram channels. The author of a poll can be either an administrator or an ordinary user. Moreover, it can be placed both in groups and in comments.

Any user can participate in the poll and view its results. Furthermore, polls can be shared and forwarded to other groups and channels.

How to create a poll in Telegram from a phone

Let's first figure out how to publish a poll from a phone. Step 1. Go to your channel or chat (group) where you want to publish the poll.

Step 2. Click on the paperclip icon in the input field and select the "Poll" option from the available options.

Step 3. Enter the question or write the topic in the appropriate field.

Step 4. Add the answer options.

Step 5. In the settings, indicate whether multiple options are allowed and choose the quiz mode if it fits your goal.

Note: If you selected the quiz format, you can add a comment for the user. In this case, as soon as the user writes their answer, a pop-up comment will appear, confirming or refuting their correctness.

Step 6. Click the "Create" button.

How to create a poll in Telegram on a computer

The process of creating a poll from a computer is almost identical to how a poll is created in the Telegram app on a phone. However, in one of the points, the algorithm is slightly different.

Step 1. Go to your channel or chat (group) where you want to publish the poll. Step 2. Click on the three dots in the corner of the screen and select the "Create question" option. From there, everything works just like the mobile version. On both PC and phone, you can stop the poll at any time, and no more answers will be accepted.

How to create a scheduled poll

The option to schedule a publication for a specific time is available both in the mobile and the computer versions.

To schedule the poll release time from the phone, you need to first write any message and choose scheduled publication.

1. Write a message.
2. Press and hold the send icon and select "Send later."
3. Click on the calendar icon — this will take you to the scheduled messages section.
4. In this section, create a poll and choose any time you need for its publication.

Creating a scheduled poll in the desktop version is even easier. Set up the poll, then right-click on the "Create" button and select "Send later."

How to create a poll using Telegram bots

Modern technology can take on all the routine work — including creating polls. There are many bots available for this. They are all easy to use and quite similar, so we will only look at a few.

Votebot

1. Find the @vote bot and click /start.
2. Choose whether the poll will be public or anonymous.
3. Enter the question or topic of the poll.
4. The bot will then ask you to send it answer options — send the items after each bot message.
5. Once you send all the desired options, write /done. After that, you will see how your poll will look when published.
6. To share it, click on Publish poll and choose where you want to publish the poll.
7. After the poll message appears in the input field, click "Send."

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Pollbot

1. Find @Pollbot and click /start.
2. Enter the question and after each bot message, enter the answer options.
3. Click /done. The bot will respond with a link to the ready poll.
4. Copy the link and send it where you want to publish the poll.

The peculiarity of this bot is that subscribers will see the poll immediately when they enter the group or channel. The answer options will be offered right under the input field.

The Quiz Bot is also interesting: it's an excellent bot for creating quiz polls, where you can set multiple questions, and they will appear after a timeframe you set yourself. This bot is perfect for tests!

You can also try Likebot — a special bot where emojis are offered as answer options instead of words. This way, you can find out how the audience reacts to certain content.

Get to know your subscribers' opinions, engage with them, conduct surveys and quizzes. The more feedback you get, the more subscribers will trust you. And you can achieve this using a simple yet effective tool — the poll.