Experience has shown that loyalty to applications has its limits, and the recent shutdown of Facebook services has caused many users of the company to move to compete for services, including Telegram. The same issue brought Telegram download statistics in the Google Play Store to more than 1 billion.
Facebook servers have seen a lot of ups and downs in the last month, leaving many users frustrated with the company’s services. As a result, a large group of users switched to alternative services, and Telegram was one of the big winners.
Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, says that the messenger was able to attract about 70 million new users during the downtime of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp services. Hence, the number of Telegram application downloads has also increased significantly. Last night, the Play Store finally updated the Telegram download statistics and announced that this application has been downloaded and installed more than 1 billion times so far.
Of course, this statistic is not equal to the number of active users of Telegram, because the latest surveys show that this application had about 550 million active users by August 2021. This number indicates a 175% increase in the number of Telegram users from 2018. The platform has attracted 350 million new users in the last three and a half years alone.
Telegram was launched in 2013 and its users have increased by an average of 40% every year. According to Apptopia, the service now has about 55.2 million active users daily on iOS and Android. This app is the seventh most popular non-gaming app in the Play Store. According to Hootsuite, every Android Telegram user spends an average of 2.9 hours a month on this app. This is an average of 2.7 hours for Facebook Messenger.
Facebook last moved many users to Telegram by changing WhatsApp privacy rules. But this time it seems that the fatigue of repeated interruptions of services has led users to these messengers.
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