Telegram became the popular messenger of Russian people

According to the report of the Fars International Economic Group, citing Rashatoudi, official statistics have shown that the share of Telegram messenger in the Russian market has increased sharply and has tripled since the beginning of 2022.

Maksut Shadayev, Minister of Communications and Mass Media of Russia, said: “Telegram’s share in the structure of mobile traffic at the beginning of last year was 2.5 percent. “Now Telegram’s share is 8.5 percent.”

Telegram has become the most popular instant messaging application in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova, surpassing WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

The messenger also became one of the top 5 downloaded apps worldwide last year. Market experts believe that the trend of increasing interest in Telegram is related to the changes in WhatsApp’s privacy policy; These changes have caused millions of users to move away from this messenger and look for apps that focus more on privacy. Telegram has more than 700 million monthly active users.

WhatsApp is an application that operates under Meta, the owner of Instagram.

Pavel Durov, who was born in Russia, is the founder and owner of Telegram. He is called the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia, and with a net worth of 11.5 billion dollars, he is included in the Forbes list of billionaires in 2022.

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