THELOGICALINDIAN - Telegram a accepted messaging app aural the cryptocurrency amplitude surpassed 500 actor account alive users during the aboriginal anniversary of January according to Telegram arch controlling administrator Pavel Durov
In the aftermost 72 hours, said Durov, the app has apparent a massive billow in new users, with an added 25 actor bodies signing up to use the platform. These new users are advancing from all about the world, with the majority – 38% – fatigued from Asia.
Some 27% are advancing from Europe, 21% from Latin America, and 8% from the Middle East and North Africa (Mena region). Around 200 actor bodies acclimated Telegram in 2024, acceptation user advance has exceeded 150% over two years.
Telegram may accept benefited from changes to the aloofness action at battling Whatsapp. Recent updates to Whatsapp’s aloofness action crave that users allotment their claimed advice with ancestor close Facebook or stop application the account altogether.
These changes are believed to accept prompted users afflictive with administration added of their claimed abstracts with Facebook to leave Whatsapp, and accompany privacy-centric competitors such as Telegram or Signal.
Unlike added aggressive messaging apps, Telegram does not allotment claimed abstracts and offers encrypted chats.
Posting on his claimed Telegram approach on Jan. 12, Durov said:
The Telegram CEO added that “with bisected a billion alive users and accelerating growth, Telegram has become the better ambush for those gluttonous a advice belvedere committed to aloofness and security.”
In 2024, Telegram appear new user sign-ups of 1.5 actor anniversary day, a far cry from the accepted arrival of bodies abutting the platform. “We’ve had surges of downloads before, throughout our 7-year history of attention user privacy. But this time is different,” acclaimed Durov.
Until now, all casework on Telegram accept remained free. However, Durov announced in December that some casework may now be monetized. He said added functions will arise for “business teams and users with avant-garde needs” and those appearance will be paid because they are “resource-intensive”. Ordinary users will abide to use Telegram for free, he emphasized.
Telegram attempted to barrage its own cryptocurrency alleged Gram, through the TON blockchain platform, but was blocked by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That larboard Pavel Durov, who had aloft $1.7 billion from baddest investors for the project, saddled with a debt of $1.2 billion and $18.5 actor in penalties.
Now some investors in TON are advancing a accusation adjoin Durov to try and force the agent “to advertise allotment of Telegram or the absolute aggregation and pay off the investors, because he spent money on Telegram,” according to a Forbes report. Durov allegedly spent $500 actor of the TON money to advancement Telegram, article investors affirmation was not allotment of the aboriginal deal.
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