Telegram's New Feature Mocks, WhatsApp Chooses Silence!

JAKARTA - WhatsApp and Telegram are known to compete fiercely in terms of messaging applications, the number of users and various features developed. Not long ago, Telegram was also caught mocking WhatsApp's new feature.

The messaging app owned by Pavel Durov said that WhatsApp had really become a very outdated application. It all started when WhatsApp announced their new feature to transfer chat history from iPhone to Android via Twitter.

Citing Gizchina, Wednesday, September 8, WhatsApp claimed, this feature is one of the most awaited by users and has been tested for a long time. However, Telegram already has a similar feature.

Seeing that its competitor had just launched the feature, Telegram then replied to a WhatsApp tweet on Twitter with a GIF from the Jumanji film that read "What year is it?" or what year is it now?

From Telegram's taunts it is understood that WhatsApp is out of date because it just launched the feature. Telegram is also making fun of WhatsApp because this new feature is not yet fully implemented.

Because it only allows chats to be moved from iOS to Android, and not the other way around. Moreover, this feature is only available for devices from the Samsung manufacturer.

Even though Telegram is superior to WhatsApp in terms of functionality, WhatsApp is still the most used app in the world with more than two billion monthly active users.

Recently, Telegram also joined the prestigious club of apps that exceeded one billion downloads on Google Play. For your information, Telegram was launched in 2013 and since its inception, it has been WhatsApp's biggest rival.

But, while not a big competitor in terms of user count, the truth is that Telegram far exceeds WhatsApp in terms of functionality, security and privacy as well as frequency of updates.

India is Telegram's biggest market with 22 percent of users from this country, followed by Russia and Indonesia. Thus, Telegram became the 15th application to get more than a billion downloads, but not equal to the number of users.