Telegram: 35 million active users, 8 billion messages per month

Telegram, a protected mobile messenger from the creators of VKontakte Nikolai and Pavel Durov, announced that the number of monthly active users has reached 35 million people. At the same time, the number of daily active users currently exceeds 15 million, and in just the past 30 days, 8 billion messages have been sent via the messenger, writes TechCrunch.



This is an impressive increase compared with the last time when Telegram published its figures - in October the service had 100 thousand daily active users. The big push was the news about the deal between Facebook and WhatsApp - then Telegram downloaded almost 5 million people per day.



The Telegram team did not rest on its laurels as long as one hundred thousand daily users grew to 15 million; developers regularly release updates, adding new features, such as the ability to delete dialogs from devices of both of its participants, adding audio messages, and background downloading message content.

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Now there are many players on the instant messenger market who are fighting for the championship and are hoping to repeat the fate of WhatsApp, acquired for $ 19 billion. However, with an increase of 14 900% of daily users in just five months, Telegram seems to be able to compete with established market leaders as a worthy successor to an independent messenger.