I find Telegram’s voice calls very clear and natural. Like WhatsApp, Voice calls and Video calls are enabled on Telegram. Group members can continue to send messages in a group without revealing their phone numbers. This ensures the privacy of the user’s contact number. Users can communicate with anyone on Telegram even if they don’t have the contact number of those people. Group members’ capacity seems to be Telegram’s biggest selling point as a Telegram group can afford up to 200,000 members, compared to WhatsApp’s 256 maximum members per group. Users can log out and log in any number of times from any number of devices simultaneously without losing any data, and they do not need to worry about backing up or restoring.
This means all text messages, images and documents are saved on cloud. Telegram prides itself with providing unlimited storage. Now 37, the self-made, single man, resides in Dubai, from where he runs his business. He founded VK when he was just 22 in 2015 he sold a 12% stake in the social network for an estimated $300 million.
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His Forbes real time networth is $17.2B as at today, 18 th October 2021.Īs the now recognised founder and owner of Telegram which is said to have more than 500 million users worldwide, Pavel Durov has made his app free to use and made it to compete with WhatsApp owned by Facebook’s Mark Zukerberg, as a messaging app.ĭurov is known as Russia’s Zuckerberg, having created VK, which is still Russia’s biggest social network. Pavel Durovįorbes puts Pavel Durov as Number 112 on its billionaire’s list. Pavel Durov sold his remaining stake in VK and left Russia after resisting government pressure. Previously, the pair founded the Russian social network, Vkontakte or VK, which they left in 2014 after it was reportedly taken over by President Putin’s allies.
Telegram was launched in 2013 by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov. So many WhatsApp users in Nigeria have quickly found succuor in Telegram, because it is a similar platform which many groups have in the last couple of years encouraged their members to move to, because it has larger capacity to accommodate group members, as against WhatsApp’s maximum of 256 members per group.Ĭompetition between WhatsApp and Telegram has been fierce, and it is not only in the capacity of groups. Almost all our friends are migrating to Telegram, as an extra or alternative to their WhatsApp, in case of the unexpected or is it the expected? And you can always ‘catch’ an elusive person on it. For one, it was always more quiet because most of our contacts were not on the platform. Some of us actually prefer it for several reasons. However, it is clear they are not in the same league as WhatsApp and Telegram.įor those of us who have been on Telegram for some years, it is nothing new.
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Some of our old folks touted Skype and several other alternatives like Yahoo messenger and Windows Live which have been in existence even longer than WhatsApp. Telegram has suddenly become the new bride whom everyone has to cultivate. It also shows how powerful any crazy person out there can also be, if he or she can bring a big company like the Facebook group down and how such an act can affect the whole world. Everyone knows now, the power in Mark Zuckerberg’s hands and what he can do with it. The incident also brought to the fore the power of technology and its owners. Governments, corporate bodies, agencies and individuals did not know what to do. And it showed the power of communication in the modern world. Let’s face it – the last outage practically brought everybody to a halt as far as communicating is concerned. Once you join, almost everyone in the world, including those who did not have your phone numbers, will know you have joined.īut Telegram seems to be the only other choice, at least in the event of another outage affecting WhatsApp. Just look away from, or shut down your Telegram for a minute and the next time you opened it, there are notices of ‘Charles has joined Telegram’, ‘Tony has joined Telegram’, ‘Olu has joined Telegram’. Many friends and foes who had argued that they will never join Telegram because it was not as friendly as WhatsApp are now flocking to the erstwhile ‘unpopular’ platform. The rate at which many people have been registering on the Telegram chat platform has been on huge increase since the Facebook Group made up of Facebook itself, Instagram and WhatsApp crashed for about 6 hours on 4 th October 2021.
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