WhatsApp is a “cheap, watered-down imitation”, while Telegram is “the second most popular” chat app, CEO says
WhatsApp is a “cheap, watered-down imitation”, while Telegram is “the second most popular” chat app, CEO says
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Days after Telegram CEO Pavil Dorov It was allowed to leave France for a period of time, announced a great victory for its application and took time to attack WhatsApp, which is the most popular correspondence in the world.
Dorov faces serious charges in France because of allegations that Telegram has facilitated the organized crime, but the investigating judge gave him permission to leave the country for a period of "several weeks." From Paris, he flew to Dubai, where Telegram is located.
Happy billionaire in the way you developed Telegram and I have announced that the application is now "more than a billion active users per month." Consequently, Telegram became "the second most messaging applications in the world", according to his own accounts, but excludes China's WeChat.
According to "10 common messaging applications in 2025" List by Marketer Adam Connell, at WhatsApp 2 billion active users per month, while Messenger in Facebook is the following with 979 million users, and only then Telegram comes with 800 million users. This list was updated on January 30, 2025. This means that if Dorov's estimates are correct, Telegram attracted more than 200 million users in a month and a half.
Dorov claims that the user's participation "also rises." It reveals this average, "every Telegram user opens 21 times a day." It is said that users spend 41 minutes on the application "every day". I think I am not one of these users.
The billionaire claims that the growth of Telegram revenue "exploded": he says that profit for 2024 was $ 547 million. Not bad, right?
Photo source - Pavel Dorouov telegram account
But the most interesting part of Dorouv comes after that - attack WhatsApp:
In front of us, WhatsApp stands-cheap and watering tradition from Telegram. For years, they tried desperate copying our innovations while burning billions on pressure campaigns and public relations to slow down. They failed. A telegram grew, became profitable, and unlike our competitor - kept its independence.
- Pavil Dorov, on his personal telegram account, March 2025
"We just started."
What use - telegram or WhatsApp? Or maybe Facebook, or Viber? Let me know in the comments below!
Days after Telegram CEO Pavil Dorov It was allowed to leave France for a period of time, announced a great victory for its application and took time to attack WhatsApp, which is the most popular correspondence in the world.
Dorov faces serious charges in France because of allegations that Telegram has facilitated the organized crime, but the investigating judge gave him permission to leave the country for a period of “several weeks.” From Paris, he flew to Dubai, where Telegram is located.
Happy billionaire in the way you developed Telegram and I have announced that the application is now “more than a billion active users per month.” Consequently, Telegram became “the second most messaging applications in the world”, according to his own accounts, but excludes China’s WeChat.
According to “10 common messaging applications in 2025” List by Marketer Adam Connell, at WhatsApp 2 billion active users per month, while Messenger in Facebook is the following with 979 million users, and only then Telegram comes with 800 million users. This list was updated on January 30, 2025. This means that if Dorov’s estimates are correct, Telegram attracted more than 200 million users in a month and a half.
Dorov claims that the user’s participation “also rises.” It reveals this average, “every Telegram user opens 21 times a day.” It is said that users spend 41 minutes on the application “every day”. I think I am not one of these users.
The billionaire claims that the growth of Telegram revenue “exploded”: he says that profit for 2024 was $ 547 million. Not bad, right?
Photo source – Pavel Dorouov telegram account
But the most interesting part of Dorouv comes after that – attack WhatsApp:
In front of us, WhatsApp stands-cheap and watering tradition from Telegram. For years, they tried desperate copying our innovations while burning billions on pressure campaigns and public relations to slow down. They failed. A telegram grew, became profitable, and unlike our competitor – kept its independence.
– Pavil Dorov, on his personal telegram account, March 2025
“We just started.”
What use – telegram or WhatsApp? Or maybe Facebook, or Viber? Let me know in the comments below!
