Telegram surpassed 500 million active users, and company says 25 Million new users in just 72 hours. The new WhatsApp privacy policy changes impact.
Here is the Message from Durov, product manager of Telegram.
In the first week of January, Telegram surpassed 500 million monthly active users. After that it kept growing: 25 million new users joined Telegram in the last 72 hours alone. These new users came from across the globe – 38% from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% from Latin America and 8% from MENA.
This is a significant increase compared to last year, when 1.5M new users signed up every day. We've had surges of downloads before, throughout our 7-year history of protecting user privacy. But this time is different.
People no longer want to exchange their privacy for free services. They no longer want to be held hostage by tech monopolies that seem to think they can get away with anything as long as their apps have a critical mass of users.
With half a billion active users and accelerating growth, Telegram has become the largest refuge for those seeking a communication platform committed to privacy and security. We take this responsibility very seriously. We won’t let you down.
Those of you who have used Telegram for the last several years know we’ve been consistent both when it comes to defending private data and to improving our apps.
With the tweet of Elon Musk, which suggests Signal instead of WhatsApp made a lot of users try Signal as their messenger.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153?lang=en
Signal Messenger is founded by Brian Action (Co-founder of WhatsApp) in 2018.
Did you switched from WhatsApp to Signal Messenger or Telegram Messenger ? Let us know which one is your favourite messenger and why