Telegram’s global Downloads Exceeded 1 Billion Times, And India Is The Largest Market: Report.
It is said that about 22% of the installations in Telegram’s life cycle are from India.
According to reports, Telegram has become the latest app with more than 1 billion downloads worldwide. The instant messaging app has been around since 2013 and competes with WhatsApp and Facebook’s Messenger. In the case of public anger at WhatsApp’s recent privacy policy update, it was able to increase its market share. Telegram also introduced new features, including group video calls, screen sharing with sound, and an updated voice chat experience that helps attract new users.
TechCrunch quoted Sensor Tower’s data as reporting that Telegram’s global downloads exceeded the 1 billion milestone last week. Other apps on the list include Telegram’s main competitor WhatsApp as well as Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Snapchat, Netflix and Spotify,.
Sensor Tower reported that India has become Telegram’s largest Internet market, with lifetime installations accounting for approximately 22%. After India, Russia and Indonesia are the two main markets for the application, accounting for 10% and 8% of total installations, respectively.
Telegram additionally arrived at 214.7 million introduces in the principal half of 2021 that shows a 61 percent year-on-year increment from the 133 million detailed in a similar time of 2020.
Note that the quantity of introduces revealed by Sensor Tower doesn’t address the dynamic client base of the application. Notwithstanding, Telegram last year expressed that it had around 500 million month to month dynamic clients.
Recently, business diary Nikkei Asia refered to information from investigation stage App Annie to report that Telegram turned into the seventh most downloaded application all around the world in 2020.
News Agencies has connected with Telegram for a remark on the downloads accomplishment and will refresh this space when the organization reacts.
One of the vital explanations for the developing achievement of Telegram over the most recent couple of months is the negative opinion among clients towards WhatsApp. It arrived at new levels with the presentation of the protection strategy update that the Facebook-claimed stage reported in mid 2021 to begin drawing in organizations and aiding auxiliaries of the parent organization.
Message — close by its rival Signal — had the option to add a huge number of new clients amidst WhatsApp’s protection column. In three days after the protection strategy update was declared by WhatsApp, organizer Pavel Durov reported that Telegram added 25 million new clients. It additionally turned into the most downloaded application universally in January, according to a previous Sensor Tower report.
In addition to overcoming the privacy disaster caused by WhatsApp, Telegram also introduced new features, including an updated voice chat function that can be used as a club and Twitter space, and group video calls that can have up to 1,000 viewers at the same time for further growth . In March, it also received US$150 million (approximately Rs 109.638 million) in investment from the Abu Dhabi Mubadala Investment National Fund and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners.