Telegram delivers 12 billion messages per day. Pavel Durov: “WhatsApp sucks”
At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on September 21, Pavel Durov said that Telegram messenger delivers twelve billion messages every day, two billion more than in August of this year. Pavel Durov added that WhatsApp "sucks."
Durov ridiculed the Facebook-owned application , noting among its features the inability to save messages: “If you use WhatsApp and your phone has sat down, then you do not have access to messages. You cannot send documents, and it is not private. "
WhatsApp messenger is used by more than nine hundred million people every month . In May 2015, Telegram had over sixty two million users.
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Pavel Durov said that in the near future Telegram will have an API for payments - that is , paid services will appear in the messenger.
The conference raised the issue of privacy, which Telegram developers care so much about. Durov was asked if there were any exceptions to this rule. For example, does he know that the service is used by a terrorist from ISIS. "Good question. Privacy is much more important than any of your fear of any bad things, like terrorism. Look at ISIS - there is a war in the Middle East. ISIS will find a way to communicate using cellular phones, and if it does not feel safe, it will find another way. We should not feel guilty. We are on the right path, protecting the privacy of our users, ”Durov replied.
Over the two years of its existence, Telegram has not received money from outside investors. Durov made the company with the money received after creating the social network Vk.com. How much Pavel Durov spent on Telegram is unknown, but he received about three hundred million dollars for selling his stake in the Russian social network.
Durov ridiculed the Facebook-owned application , noting among its features the inability to save messages: “If you use WhatsApp and your phone has sat down, then you do not have access to messages. You cannot send documents, and it is not private. "
WhatsApp messenger is used by more than nine hundred million people every month . In May 2015, Telegram had over sixty two million users.
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Pavel Durov said that in the near future Telegram will have an API for payments - that is , paid services will appear in the messenger.
The conference raised the issue of privacy, which Telegram developers care so much about. Durov was asked if there were any exceptions to this rule. For example, does he know that the service is used by a terrorist from ISIS. "Good question. Privacy is much more important than any of your fear of any bad things, like terrorism. Look at ISIS - there is a war in the Middle East. ISIS will find a way to communicate using cellular phones, and if it does not feel safe, it will find another way. We should not feel guilty. We are on the right path, protecting the privacy of our users, ”Durov replied.
Over the two years of its existence, Telegram has not received money from outside investors. Durov made the company with the money received after creating the social network Vk.com. How much Pavel Durov spent on Telegram is unknown, but he received about three hundred million dollars for selling his stake in the Russian social network.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/366473/
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