Telegram, the encrypted messaging app backed by VKontakte founders Nikolai and Pavel Durov, announced today that its users send 10 billion messages per day. That’s up from 1 billion daily messages in December.
That’s impressive, considering that people on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp send a combined 45 billion messages each day, as Facebook said in April. WhatsApp on its own delivered 30 billion messages a day as of January.
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In addition to its web app, Telegram has apps for many platforms, including Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.
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Other encrypted messaging apps include BitTorrent’s Bleep, Confide, Open Whisper Systems’ Signal/TextSecure, Peerio, and Wickr.
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