Telegram Registers Over 1 Billion Downloads; India Is The Biggest Market With 22% Installs

Instant messaging app Telegram has crossed 1 billion downloads globally, a file from Sensor Tower has said. Telegram was launched in late 2013 and took about eight years to attain the milestone on Friday, August 27. The Sensor Tower report, sourced by Tech Crunch additionally said that India is the greatest market for Telegram, with 22 percent of the downloads coming from the country. This is comparable to Telegram’s biggest rival WhatsApp, that additionally has India as its largest market. The Sensor Tower document says that Telegram’s downloads accelerated in 2021. This could be a end result of the controversy around WhatsApp’s new privateness policy and the company’s coping with of it.

According to the Sensor Tower report, 22 percent of Telegram’s downloads got here from India. India is followed through Russia, which represents about 10 percent of all installs, follwed through Indonesia, that accounted to 8 percentage of the downloads. The report says that in the first 1/2 of 2021, Telegram reached about 214.7 million installs, a 61 percentage year-on-year growth from 133 million in H1 2020. It is necessary to note that the whole number of installs are now not the same as the app’s lively user base. Telegram had about five hundred million monthly energetic users as of early 2021.

This makes Telegram the fifteenth app globally to have been downloaded 1 billion instances or more, the Sensor Tower report said. Other apps that have reached 1 billion downloads are WhatsApp, Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Spotify, and Netflix. Telegram in the past this year raised over $1 billion (roughly Rs 7,326 crores) in the most latest round of funding.