diff --git a/apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py b/apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py
index 03bc36c6..dbea79b1 100644
--- a/apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py
+++ b/apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py
@@ -297,7 +297,6 @@ class NotifyTelegram(NotifyBase):
             'name': _('Target Chat ID'),
             'type': 'string',
             'map_to': 'targets',
-            'map_to': 'targets',
             'regex': (r'^((-?[0-9]{1,32})|([a-z_-][a-z0-9_-]+))$', 'i'),
         },
         'targets': {
@@ -916,7 +915,7 @@ class NotifyTelegram(NotifyBase):
         """
         Returns the number of targets associated with this notification
         """
-        return len(self.targets)
+        return 1 if not self.targets else len(self.targets)
 
     @staticmethod
     def parse_url(url):
diff --git a/test/test_plugin_discord.py b/test/test_plugin_discord.py
index 848c7c31..ea634c3b 100644
--- a/test/test_plugin_discord.py
+++ b/test/test_plugin_discord.py
@@ -298,14 +298,19 @@ def test_plugin_discord_notifications(mock_post):
 
 
 @mock.patch('requests.post')
-def test_plugin_discord_general(mock_post):
+@mock.patch('time.sleep')
+def test_plugin_discord_general(mock_sleep, mock_post):
     """
     NotifyDiscord() General Checks
 
     """
 
+    # Prevent throttling
+    mock_sleep.return_value = True
+
     # Turn off clock skew for local testing
     NotifyDiscord.clock_skew = timedelta(seconds=0)
+
     # Epoch time:
     epoch = datetime.fromtimestamp(0, timezone.utc)