Telegram’s active users increased during the WhatsApp outage.
Telegram crossed 1 billion total downloads globally in August this year.
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whatsapp competitor Wire Google has crossed 1 billion installs on the Play Store. This comes after the recent Facebook outage after which Telegram gained 70 million new users. The app totaled 1 billion downloads globally in August, joining the list of a handful of apps to reach this milestone WhatsApp, Facebook, instagram, snapchat, spotify, Netflix, even more.
Telegram has now just touched 1 billion downloads google play store, shows the listing of the app on the Google Play Store. It was first spotted by Android Police. Telegram was founded by Pavel Durov and is slowly gaining a significant market share. Not only this, Telegram is the second most popular instant messaging app after WhatsApp.
Telegram also gained a significant amount of new users during the recent Facebook outage on October 4. CEO Durov had said that Telegram gained about 70 million new users that day as Facebook services including WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook were down for more than six hours. . “Telegram’s daily growth rate exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel.
Earlier, in August, a report by Sensor Tower stated that Telegram had touched a total of 1 billion downloads globally. The data shows that India has emerged as the largest internet market for Telegram, with 22 per cent of AppLife installs coming from India. Telegram also achieved 214.7 million installs in the first half of 2021 Whatsapp Policy update failure.
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