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Telegram Most-Installed App in Jan 2021 With Over 63 Million Installs, Most Coming From India
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Popular messaging app Telegram became the most downloaded non-game app worldwide in last month in January 2021, according to a recent Sensor Tower report. The messaging app witnessed a total of 63 million installed, a 3.8-fold increase from its numbers in January last year. Sensor Tower also said that India saw the most amount of downloads, with 24 percent of the 63 million installs coming from the country. People in India and abroad started moving to Telegram in order to find a safer alternative to WhatsApp after the Facebook-owned messaging app faced a lot of flak over its updated privacy policy earlier this year.
Telegram is now the most downloaded app on Google Play Store Ever since WhatsApp has announced its new privacy policy, users have found peace in other messaging apps including Telegram and Signal.
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Telegram has moved from the ninth position to the top spot on Google Play Store. It is the fourth most download app on Apple’s App Store.
WhatsApp’s loss is Telegram’s gain. Ever since WhatsApp has announced its new privacy policy, users have found peace in other messaging apps including Telegram and Signal. While there were a lot of conjectures of WhatsApp’s privacy policy, users found the other apps more reliable and safer even before WhatsApp could explain its case. However, Telegram seems to have really benefitted due to this sudden shift of users from WhatsApp.