Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days

https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1349014065931284480

by reddotX • 6 years ago

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cblconfederate• 6 years ago

Wow. Now all the need is to add a feed

jsilence• 6 years ago

Are those Trumps Twitter followers? Or are they coming from Parlor?

Serious questions. Not trying to troll.

AlfeG2• 6 years ago

I guess this is a wave of WhatsUp-privacy-gate

josefresco• 6 years ago

No, the second half of the headline is "38% came from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% from Latin America and 8% from MENA."

fernandotakai• 6 years ago

tons of people in LA/SA are moving to telegram from whatsapp due to the whole facebook debacle.

jandrese2• 6 years ago

So what's going on in the world that's driving the surge in signups? Hopefully not US political nonsense.

I also really hope it's not intelligence agencies rushing to make new accounts to move their disinformation campaigns to new platforms.

fsociety• 6 years ago

Some for sure, there have been rumors of Telegram groups starting up in the aftermath of Parler.

chrissnell• 6 years ago

Almost none of my conservative friends used Parler. It really was a ghost town until Twitter banned President Trump and many signed up, hoping they could read posts from him there, but he was never on Parler.

As for the surge in encrypted messaging, yes, a lot of this is conservatives no longer willing to use Facebook and Twitter out of anger or fear. Of my conservative friends, I would say that at least half have moved to platforms like Wickr and Signal in the last week. They are using it to replace private Facebook Messenger chats.

skinkestek3• 6 years ago

It really was a ghost town until Twitter banned President Trump and many signed up, hoping they could read posts from him there, but he was never on Parler.

All of my family and most of my in-laws as well as most of my friends here in Norway from outside work uses it since long time ago, but just the last few days two more Norwegians and one Pakistani friend of mine joined.

blisterpeanuts• 6 years ago

Parler's user base really started growing in mid-late 2020 as FB, Twitter etc. became stricter about political content, and started censoring the President and other conservatives much more frequently.

paxys• 6 years ago

I imagine Signal is seeing a bump as well.

randomsearch2• 6 years ago

Unsure if you’re a signal user and/or joking but I’ve had a steady stream of “X is on signal” messages the last week

ffpip2• 6 years ago

The number of my contacts on signal has increased from 3 to 35 in 2 days.

malux85• 6 years ago

Yeah me too, +15 or so contacts

newscracker4• 6 years ago

Yes, Signal has also seen a large influx, so much so that the registration OTPs failed to deliver and Signal was working on that (with carriers) to sort it out. This was in the news a few days ago.

nikhizzle2• 6 years ago

On thing I love about Telegram is how easy the bot API is. Anytime I need a quick personal CLI to a service that works on mobile, I can get it running in no time. For example, I wrote a script to check flight prices and send me a telegram message when it hit a certain threshold.

Gasp0de• 6 years ago

Do you know Signal-cli? I'm using it for all my Signal bots. https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

nikhizzle2• 6 years ago

I do not, thanks for sending this my way!

eznzt2• 6 years ago

Telegram does not have end-to-end encryption by default and group chats cannot be end-to-end encrypted at all.

skinkestek3• 6 years ago

First off: Correct. Off all the people trying to say this you are the first I've seen who has nailed it!

That said: Neither is mail.

Mail is still useful for a lot of things.

Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days

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