Telegram Hits 400 Million Users

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I'm posting here in Software because it covers Android, IOS, Windows and some other OS's.

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Telegram has reached 400,000,000 monthly users, up from 300 million a year ago.

Every day at least 1.5 million new users sign up for Telegram. Features like folders, cloud storage and desktop support make Telegram ideal for remote work and study during the quarantine. It's no wonder Telegram is the #1 most downloaded social media application in over 20 countries – people all over the world are switching to Telegram at an accelerating pace.

Telegram's growth over the last 7 years.
When we started Telegram 7 years ago, we assumed that people will always choose freedom and quality over restrictions and mediocrity. As the gap in popularity between Telegram and its older competitors narrows, we find more and more validity in that original assumption. Thank you for being smart and free!

What's next, you might ask? The current global lockdown highlighted the need for a trusted video communication tool. Video calls in 2020 are much like messaging in 2013. There are apps that are either secure or usable, but not both. We'd like to fix that, and we will focus on bringing you secure group video calls in 2020.

When will they be ready? You‘ll be the first to know when we’re done, promise. So stop asking.
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Dan C said:
Never heard of it.
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You know WhatsApp? You know all those features that you ask for and they don't give you? Well they are available in Telegram plus a whole lot more.

If you are going to be a work at home person, then Telegram is exactly what you need. Because it is cloud based it synchronises to all your devices. The desktop app is very good. Data is kept in the cloud so what happens on one device, happens on them all. Also for sending and receiving files upto 1.5Gb. Gmail and WhatsApp are limited to just 25Mb.

And one of their new features is chat folders. Keep your work chats separate from your personal chats.
 
You know WhatsApp? You know all those features that you ask for and they don't give you? Well they are available in Telegram plus a whole lot more.

Except none of your friends and family will be on it......;-)
 
aktiv said:
You know WhatsApp? You know all those features that you ask for and they don't give you? Well they are available in Telegram plus a whole lot more.

Except none of your friends and family will be on it......;-)
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That is the problem unfortunately. Telegram is better than WhatsApp, but very few of the 400 million Telegram users are on my contact list.
 
aktiv said:
You know WhatsApp? You know all those features that you ask for and they don't give you? Well they are available in Telegram plus a whole lot more.

Except none of your friends and family will be on it......;-)
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All except one person is on it for me, he'll probs install it when I fully ditch Whatsapp next month (after I can finally give up uni chats).
 
RedViking said:
Only when it reaches 3 billion users it might be useful.
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Well, I kind of love using it because I wrote some bots for it and using others, e.g. I wrote my own that ties into reminders for group events, polls one I had I don't need anymore as Telegram has it directly (really nice if group can't decide where to go, rather than trying to bug everyone to answer, poll was way easier), scheduled messages so I don't bother people at work/while asleep (they built this into telegram, so I retired my group chat bot), Spotybot and YT one are also cool, play song snippet directly in-app without people having to install spotify, editing messages, can say timestamp in video and skips, etc.

I'd guess people using for work would also find the multiple accounts feature quite useful.

Adding nearby people also proved super useful, at uni most have Telegram because of it (or at least in the IT department) if need to send quick file to others since whatsapp file sharing doesn't work on the proxy there, so kind of took off.

Really looking forward to group calling, don't really care about video, might even end up dropping discord then as Telegram is way lighter on resources for some in our groups.
 
Dairyfarmer said:
You know WhatsApp? You know all those features that you ask for and they don't give you? Well they are available in Telegram plus a whole lot more.

If you are going to be a work at home person, then Telegram is exactly what you need. Because it is cloud based it synchronises to all your devices. The desktop app is very good. Data is kept in the cloud so what happens on one device, happens on them all. Also for sending and receiving files upto 1.5Gb. Gmail and WhatsApp are limited to just 25Mb.

And one of their new features is chat folders. Keep your work chats separate from your personal chats.
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Not sure about WhatsApp and what it can and cannot do (frankly not interested)..
We are only allowed to use Skype for Business when working remotely. And we do have a company cloud sharing platform all over the world already. So space is none of our concern.
 
Dan C said:
Not sure about WhatsApp and what it can and cannot do (frankly not interested)..
We are only allowed to use Skype for Business when working remotely. And we do have a company cloud sharing platform all over the world already. So space is none of our concern.
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Ouch, teams is much better than Skype for business and can co-exist. I really do wish Teams would finally upgrade to a newer electron version, think they're still stuck on 2017/2018 version of the Chromium engine, Slack migrated to React and a newer Electron version,
Over the course of the last few months, the team actually quietly rolled out a lot of the prep work for this move, though the full extent of the work is only going to become apparent once you update the client to the latest version, as it’s the new Electron app that will bring it all together.

Slack promises that this new version will use up to 50% less memory than before and that Slack will load 33% faster. Joining an incoming call will also be 10 times faster now.
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Slack speeds up its web and desktop client | TechCrunch

Slack is launching a major update to its web and desktop today that doesn't introduce any new features or a new user interface. Instead, it's almost a
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It did noticeably improve in performance, and I'm sure MS is working on improving it.

Anyways, that's off-topic to Telegram, the Telegram desktop client, this is with window open with ~30 chats, the active/selected chat is one with a video open though not playing:
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Going full screen and then speed clicking through chats (peaked about 64MB):
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Though I don't think my PC clear's memory very fast since I have 32GB with 36% used of which 10.8/11.2GB (1.1GB Compressed) is cached.


Comparison of slack with about 10 chats, this is no gif, 2 ~56KB thumbnails in the open chat:
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With gif in another chat:
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This is Teams, around 3 images in main chat and then ~15 profile icons (so 15 active chats) in the left-hand chat piece and then add the other chat, teams icon to it:
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And teams also uses my Nvidia GPU instead of Intel one.

Neither Slack nor Teams use enough resources for me to care though as they're both useful, this is more of a "nice to have", Teams for me loads chats faster, so better caching probs (and I have around 15-20 team chats going).

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And for the hell of it, Discord, around 18 servers I am active in, around 70 people on PM chat, this one is a server with only 6 people with one video thumbnail visible, not on any voice chat:
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This is me speed skipping through all the servers and finding one with a gif (and two static images) open:
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Note Discord does not have images "instantly" load like I had on Teams.
 
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Dairyfarmer said:
Explain?
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Not many I know uses it. Maybe in your tech industries it is used a lot while popularity grows among casual users. WhatsApp is more than enough for most, with the downside it is owned by Facebook. Even if Telegram could let you virtually go to the toilet, if there are not enough users on it, it is as useful as wet toilet paper. But it is getting there. Maybe.
 
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Dan C said:
Never heard of it.
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Security from obscurity is a brain-fart. Telegram always has been more than a little snake-oil.

Open Whisper Systems, (Signal), is where it's at. A proven secure platform. Properly open-sourced and audited with no dodgy obscuring of the underlying encryption methodology.

Telegram pinky-swears it's all good whilst leaking metadata to all and sundry.

Incidentally, WhatsApp uses OWS for at least some of their encryption.
 
More and more people joining so might eventually be able to kill off that green kak from Evil corp.

The number one best feature Telegram has is proper apps for each platform and phone independence.

Why on earth people still prefer WhatsApp for its lack of flexibility is beyond me.

More so the ability to run multiple accounts is fantastic for business use.
 
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