Sensor Tower, it passed the milestone over the weekend, fuelled by a boom in downloads in its key markets of India, Russia, and Indonesia.
The app reportedly had 214.7 million downloads in the first half of 2020 - a 61% increase on the same period in 2020. Its active userbase, meanwhile, is estimated to be around 500 million.Telegram saw a boom in popularity earlier this year following announcements that the popular WhatsApp planned to drastically alter its privacy policy.Although the proposed changes would have retained the encryption that keeps user messages private, they sparked a mass exodus from the Facebook-owned messenger app towards Telegram and another competitor app called Signal.
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