Telegram messaging app has come into limelight these days. Russia also banned Facebook and Instagram in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions imposed on it by the US and NATO countries. Since then, Telegram has become silver. Although Telegram’s security system is not very strong regarding data security and misinformation, questions have been raised many times about it. Despite this, there has been a huge increase in the downloads of the Telegram app after Russia imposed a ban on Facebook and Insta.
Let us tell you that Telegram is also a mass messaging platform. Which works as a social media platform. According to the data provided by Telegram, the app has been downloaded 150 million times since the beginning of this year. Telegram had 5 million active users as of January 2021. Telegram is benefiting from the gap created by the ban on Facebook and Instagram in Russia.
Before the Russian invasion, Telegram was benefiting from adopting a business model different from the business model of the big American mass messaging app, but now Telegram is benefiting from its creators Pavel Durov and Nikolai Durov. Both are Russian citizens as well as brothers. He left his country Russia in January 2014. Due to pressure from government officials, Nikolai Durov sold his stake in VK. In other words, instead of giving information about VK’s personal data and activities related to it to the government, he sold it to a private buyer. Let us tell you that Nikolai Durov was the creator of VK.
Enrique Dans, a professor working at IE Business School Madrid, says that Telegram has become a very beautiful revenge story right now and we all love a good revenge story.
Will just one good revenge story be enough to make Telegram the world’s favorite messaging app? On this, experts say that a lot remains to be done for Telegram to maintain its popularity going forward. Its creators will have to do a lot in terms of security encryption and business model.
Let us tell you that Telegram currently operates from Dubai. It does not encrypt messages by default. In contrast, in WhatsApp, owned by Meta, messages are encrypted by default. Like WhatsApp, Telegram is also a multimedia messaging app in which you can send photos-videos as well as share docs files and do audio-video calling, although you will not find the status feature of WhatsApp in Telegram. There is no UPI payment facility in Telegram, which has been started in WhatsApp a few days back.
The real developers of Telegram are Pavel Durov and Nikolai Durov. Both of them are brothers and residents of Russia. Both of them have also created Russia’s famous social media app VK. He made the basic version of Telegram in 2012 and then started the company and made its final stable version with the team. Its stable version was launched in the European market in 2013 and then its journey started from there and it became one of the most popular apps in the world.
If you search Telegram’s headquarters on the Internet, then its location will show Dubai, in such a situation, many people get confused whether it is from Dubai or any other country, if you search Telegram FZ-LLC company on the Internet, then its location London will show.
See, actually it is from Russia and its founder is also from Russia but its founders Pavel Durov and Nikolai Durov did not register the company in Russia, they registered the company in London under the name Telegram FZ-LLC, then later its executive office in Dubai I opened.
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Now understand in an easy way that the entire team of the company lives in Dubai and the founder of the company and its management team lives in London. In fact, this application has been made by Russian developers and the same founders and they still have Russian citizenship, so accordingly this app is also from Russia.
It is worth noting that Russia announced on Friday that it is banning the Meta platform-owned Facebook in the country. The reason for this is that Facebook and Instagram are not giving access to Russian media. The Russian regulator further said that so far 26 such cases have been found in which Facebook has banned Russian media on its platform. Recently news agencies like state-run Russian channels RT and RIA have also been banned on Facebook and Instagram.
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