title: Telegram: Can a bot write a message to a specific user in a group?
body: <p>I have a telegram group with several human members and a bot. This bot sends regular status updates to the group. I do this with a simple curl command.</p>
  <pre><code>https://api.telegram.org/bot&lt;MYBOT-ID&gt;/sendMessage?chat_id=&lt;MYCHAT-ID&gt;=&amp;text=hello%20world
  </code></pre>
  <p>Is there a possibility that the bot sends a message to a <strong>specific user in the group</strong>, e.g. to inform about a failure. The other members of the group should of course not see or hear this.</p>