AGI – Telegram has registered 25 million new users in the last 72 hours. This was stated by its founder Pavel Drove. The announcement comes at a time when WhatsApp, the main competitor of the news app, is at the center of many controversies Due to the updated Terms of Use This will allow you Share additional data with Facebook.
The 36-year-old Drove, some of whom spent their childhood in Italy, said the app had more than 500 million active users in the first weeks of January and “25 million new users joined. Only Telegram in the last 72 hours”.
Throw does not mention the use of competition, but in his opinion, explains that “people no longer want to trade their privacy for free services”.
WhatsApp’s new rules have provoked criticism as non-European users who do not accept the new terms before February 8 will be disconnected from the news app. Drove said on Tuesday that Telegram had become a “great refuge” for those looking for a private and secure communications site, and that his team had assured new users that it would “take this responsibility very seriously.”
Telegram was founded in 2013 by brothers Powell and Nikolai Trov, who also founded the Russian social network V.Contacte. Refusal to cooperate with any authority and refusal to hand over encryption keys to messages is one of its most popular traits, which led to its ban in many countries, including Russia. At the end of last year, Moscow announced the lifting of the ban.
