Telegram exceeds one billion downloads

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The instant messaging app Telegram has already been downloaded a billion times all over the world, allowing you to access a restricted club of applications that have such a high number of downloads (which is not directly equivalent to installations or users).

The number of installations of an app does not equal the number of users

In fact, it is estimated that the total number of Telegram users exceeds 500 million people worldwide, especially after changes to WhatsApp’s Terms of Use, which caused a migration of users at the beginning of this year. For reference, it should be said that WhatsApp has more than 2,000 million users worldwide.

According to data provided by Sensor Tower, the Telegram app would have joined the select club of apps that have exceeded 1,000 million downloads to which Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Netflix, Snapchat, Spotify, WhatsApp have been incorporated so far … A club that so far has only fifteen members.

Telegram is an app whose use is widely spread globally, especially since the incorporation of new rules about privacy in WhatsApp, when a significant number of users decided to bet on Telegram to the detriment of WhasApp. However, it maintains some markets where its presence is especially successful and they provide it with the largest number of its users.

Currently, the country with the largest presence is India, where it has obtained 22% of its downloads, followed by Russia (10%) and Indonesia (8%). The year 2021 has been decisive for the growth of Telegram, since so far it has achieved more than 214 million downloads, far exceeding the 133 million downloads it obtained during 2020, which represents a growth of 61%, motivated by the aforementioned migration of millions of users from WhatsApp.

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It should be clarified that the number of installations does not imply a direct equivalence with the number of active users. In fact today Telegram has around 500 million active users. This occurs because the same user usually installs the app of a platform on more than one device (smartphone and tablet, for example), to be able to use it interchangeably.

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