Telegram is expected to pass QQ within 2 months or less

Btw, if not total blockade in China it could be at least 3x more popular, as all of Chinese messengers are much inferior in design and usability (despite lot of additional features also present in things like WeChat)

According to research firm Sensor Tower, the popular instant messaging app Telegram was among the programs that have been downloaded more than one billion times worldwide. The messenger was launched at the end of 2013, and crossed the threshold of a billion downloads last Friday.

India is the largest market for Telegram. According to Sensor Tower, the second largest internet market in the world accounts for approximately 22% of all app installs of all time. India is followed by Russia and Indonesia, which account for about 10% and 8%, respectively. 2021 saw a period of rapid growth in the popularity of the messenger. In the first half of this year, the app was downloaded approximately 214.7 million times, up 61 percent from the same period last year.

As shown by the study of the company Deloitte "Media consumption in Russia in 2021", the application of the popular messenger Telegram was downloaded in Russia by 61% of Internet users, and 52% of the Internet users actively use it.

According to available data, the total Telegram audience in the country may exceed 50 million users. This year, Telegram took second place in the local ranking of instant messengers, behind only WhatsApp in Russia, which is used by 82% of respondents. Viber is in third place with 49%.

As noted by Megafon, over the past year messengers have significantly increased the total volume of mobile traffic - an increase of 87%. Instant messaging services are used not only for text communication, and voice communication is becoming more and more popular. At the end of the year, WhatsApp still retained its leadership in Russia, generating 48% of mobile traffic, and this is a decrease by almost a quarter. And Telegram showed an increase of 26% and stopped at 44% of traffic. Megafon believes that if the trend continues, then in early 2022 Telegram will lead the rating of instant messengers in Russia. The popularity of Telegram, experts are sure, is explained by the fact that the service not only combines means for communication, but is itself a news content channel.

Messenger Viber, according to Megafon, continues to drop out of the race, being content with third place. Only if in 2020 it created 11% of mobile traffic, then this year it was limited to a mark of only 6%.

Today, a representative of the German Ministry of Justice held a briefing during which he announced the opening of two investigations against Telegram in Germany, including in connection with the lack of a commissioner for its affairs in the country. The Federal Office of Justice launched two fine proceedings against Telegram.

Earlier, the Minister of the Interior of Germany Nancy Feser (Nancy Faeser) admitted the possibility of blocking Telegram in connection with the systematic failure to comply with the instructions to remove illegal content.

German fascism is rising its head.

Lot of new users in Russia