‘Spreading like wildfire’:Telegram’s founder says it will hit a billion users this year
The social media platform Telegram will hit one billion users this year, its co-founder Pavel Durov has said in an interview. Offering users mass group chat functions with so-called channels, as well as an emphasis on privacy and encryption, Telegram has 900 million monthly users making it the sixth most used app in the world behind Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, and WeChat. "Telegram is spreading like forest fire" and is expected to rise and to hit one billion users in 2024, Durov told the American conservative commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an intervi...