Reaching 700M Active Users, Telegram Announces ‘Premium’ Tier
“Telegram became one of the top-5 downloaded apps worldwide in 2022 and now has over 700 million monthly active users,” they announced this weekend. “This growth is solely from personal recommendations — Telegram has never paid to advertise its apps.”
But they add significantly that “As Telegram keeps growing at rocket speed, many users have expressed th … ⌘ Read more
@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net And yet it’s still yet another centrlaised instant messaging platform 🤦♂️ When will we ever get away from this gawd awful “You need to use platform X to talk to me” bullshit?! 🤬
@ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com With Salty.im as the encryption model used over the top 😂
@prologic@twtxt.net This is what I face every day when people ask me why I do not have WhatsApp anymore. I tell them then: please send email! Or Signal, Threema, Element(matrix), IRC. So strange. And I feel old and sad the Email got degraded to a “retrieve password” service.