The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, announced on his official channel that the messaging app now has 950 million active users.
Durov noted that Telegram aims to surpass the level of one billion users by the end of the year, also adding that the plans are to launch its own application store and a browser in the next app.
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Telegram has always been known as a messaging app dedicated to privacy, with the encryption present on the platform having early on become one of users' main arguments for adopting the application.
