Telegram Crosses 1 Billion Installs on Google Play Store

Telegram has turn into the newest app to surpass 1 billion installs on the Google Play retailer. The sudden improve in downloads may very well be attributed to main outages at Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram earlier this month. Founded by Pavel Durov Telegram is slowly rising its market presence and gained extra customers because of the outages at rivals within the house. All Facebook-owned apps had been inaccessible for a number of hours as a result of configuration modifications on October 4, pushing many customers to change to Telegram.

The Telegram app has now touched the 1-billion obtain mark on Google Play, the set up counter reveals. It was first spotted by Android Police. Earlier, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov mentioned that the app gained greater than 70 million new customers through the Facebook outage on October 4. “The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel.

In August, Telegram crossed the milestone of 1 billion downloads globally, as per Sensor Tower information. Other apps on the listing included WhatsApp in addition to Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Spotify, and Netflix. The Sensor Tower information additionally confirmed that India has emerged as the biggest Internet marketplace for Telegram, with round 22 % of its lifetime installs. Russia and Indonesia had been the 2 key markets for the app following India from the place it acquired 10 % and eight % of its whole installs, respectively. Telegram additionally surged by 214.7 million installs within the first half of 2021. This means a 61 % year-on-year progress from the 133 million reported in the identical interval of 2020, mentioned Sensor Tower.