TELEGRAM

Telegram may be among the most popular

messaging services in the world, yet there are still
many who don’t know what it’s all about. Telegram
has been around since 2013, but it's currently
having a moment. The app is often name-dropped
in discussions regarding online privacy and
security, but aren’t all messaging apps secure .  In
the wake of the Whatsapp controversy, the
company, which pushes itself as a privacy-focused
service that provides both one-on-one secure
messaging as well as more social features like
group chats, shared that it had gained 25
million users over a 72-hour period in mid-
January. The service says it now has 500
million active users. Telegram is owned by the
same two people who founded the company in
Russia back in 2013, Pavel Durov and his brother
Nikolai. Pavel is also the company’s CEO. The
number of Telegram users started growing after U.S.
President Donald Trump’s accounts were blocked on
January 7, 2020, by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and
other platforms. Pavel Durov has been
dubbed Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg, as he had
originally founded that country’s biggest social
networking site, known as VK. The company made
him a billionaire.
In 2014, Facebook announced that it was buying
the popular messaging app WhatsApp. Since then,
the social media giant has mostly treated
WhatsApp as a separate entity from its social
networking platform. That all changed in early
2021 when WhatsApp’s terms of service was
updated  to inform users that their user data would
now be shared with its parent company, Facebook.
Users were outraged. And in the end I only say that
Telegram is more secure app than Whatsapp and
other social apps.

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