Telegram has become one of the highest quality messaging apps of the moment. It is like the version that we all want to have of WhatsApp with a series of advantages to which new ones are added every two by three with those updates to which this app created by two brothers is getting used to. Integration of internal players in windows conversation, channels for disseminating all types of news to thousands of users, admins and supergroups of up to 1.000 users or what is an incredible integration of animated GIFs to make chats with friends or work groups very fun are some of the special features that Telegram has been incorporating in the past six months. These have served as inspiration for WhatsApp itself to incorporate some of them such as supergroups.
Today was at the Mobile World Congresss in which Telegram announced its 100 million monthly active users. A spectacular figure for an application that is two and a half years old and that adds another number to take into account with 350.000 new users active daily. So, in a short time, if we have seen how Facebook closed the door to those direct links to Telegram from WhatsApp, we will be able to see a Telegram that goes head to head with the company owned by Mark Zuckerberg. Perhaps in less time than we think, since when the word spreads, the jump from one app to another can be almost instantaneous, and since everything is free, no one will worry about their previous application with which they communicated with their loved ones. friends or family.
From 50 million
Shortly after launch, it does more than two and a half years, the messaging app claimed it had 100.000 users communicating through its encrypted platform. It was in December 2014 when it reached 50 million active users, who were generating 1.000 million daily messages.
It is now in February when Telegram has announced that it has 100 million monthly active users and 350.000 new ones every day that generate 15.000 million messages daily daily through its highly secure encryption system.
If we compare the Telegram figures to those released by Messenger or WhatsApp, we find 800 million active users for Facebook and 1.000 billion users for the one acquired by Mark Zuckerberg two years ago. It is not comparable to Messenger, since it relegates it to Facebook so that its users continue to communicate through mobile devices, although it is in WhatsApp where they have the objective set so that in a few years it may come close in numbers. In any case, we will have to see the progression of this app that, if it follows the current rhythm, will bring many surprises.
The idea behind Telegram
The brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who launched VK in 2006 (the well-known Russian social network), began to work at Telegram in early 2012 as a research project. His main goal was to create something that was really safe and fun at the same time. Telegram was launched shortly after everything that happened with Edward Snowden and the NSA and PRISM.
Let's say they launched the service at the perfect timing to take advantage of this pull that meant that dozens of developers looked for new ways to offer the user greater privacy or security, as happened with the CyanogenMod offer in this regard.
Now we have to see the future of this messaging app that every time he has more fans talking about his virtues and benefits. So those 350.000 new users who join this service, will mean that it is increasingly important and we can have more friends and contacts to communicate with them. A future that we will be portraying from these lines to know if at some point it will really be able to approach WhatsApp, the definitive app that has made many users have to buy a smartphone.
