Telegram Marks Over 1-Billion Google Play Store Installs Post Recent Facebook Outage

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

The Telegram app has now touched the 1-billion obtain mark on Google Play, the set up counter exhibits. It was first noticed by Android Police. Earlier, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov mentioned that the app gained greater than 70 million new customers through the Fb outage on October 4. “The every day progress charge of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from different platforms in in the future,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel.

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