Telegram has become the newest app to surpass the mark of 1 billion downloads globally, consistent with a report. the moment messaging app, which has been alive late since 2013, competes against WhatsApp and Facebook’s Messenger. it had been ready to grow its market presence amid public outrage over WhatsApp’s recent privacy policy update. Telegram also introduced new features including group video calls, screen sharing with sound, and an updated voice chats experience that helped attract new users.
TechCrunch reports citing data from Sensor Tower that Telegram crossed the milestone of a billion downloads worldwide last week. Other apps on the list include Telegram arch-rival WhatsApp also as Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Spotify, and Netflix.
Sensor Tower reported that India emerged because the largest Internet marketplace for Telegram, with around 22 percent of its lifetime installs. Following India, Russia and Indonesia were the 2 key markets for the app from where it received 10 percent and eight percent of its total installs, respectively.
Telegram also reached 214.7 million installs within the half of 2021 that shows a 61 percent year-on-year increase from the 133 million reported within the same period of 2020.
It is important to notice that the amount of installs reported by Sensor Tower doesn’t represent the active user base of the app. However, Telegram last year stated that it had about 500 million monthly active users.
Earlier this month, business journal Nikkei Asia cited data from analytics platform App Annie to report that Telegram became the seventh most downloaded app globally in 2020.
Gadgets 360 has reached bent Telegram for a discuss the downloads achievement and can update this space when the corporate responds.
One of the key reasons behind the growing success of Telegram within the previous couple of months is that the negative sentiment among users towards WhatsApp. It reached new levels with the introduction of the privacy policy update that the Facebook-owned platform announced in early 2021 to start out attracting businesses and helping subsidiaries of the parent company.
Telegram — alongside its competitor Signal — was ready to add many new users within the midst of WhatsApp’s privacy row. In three days after the privacy policy update was announced by WhatsApp, founder Pavel Durov announced that Telegram added 25 million new users. It also became the foremost downloaded app globally in January, as per an earlier Sensor Tower report.
Alongside gaining over the privacy disaster created by WhatsApp, Telegram introduced new features including updated voice chats that employment like Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces also as group video calls with the power to possess up to 1,000 viewers simultaneously to mark further growth. It also received a $150 million (roughly Rs. 10,96.38 crores) investment from Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala Investment and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners in March.
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