Telegram Gets Rid Of TikTok From The Most Popular Applications In The World

Telegram Application (PCMag)

JAKARTA - Telegram has become a very popular application in the last few months. This is the effect of the issuance of WhatsApp's new privacy policy, which makes its users choose other messaging applications, including Telegram.

Based on the results of SensorTower research related to the most popular applications throughout January 2021. Pavel Durov's platform managed to gain the highest popularity, eliminating the short video application, TikTok, from the top of the standings.

It is proven that in January, the Telegram messaging application has been downloaded up to 63 million times. This figure exceeds the number of downloads in the same period in 2020.

TikTok abdicated and was forced to settle for second place. The number of TikTok downloaders is only one million different from Telegram downloaders.

In third, fourth and fifth place are the Signal application, Facebook, and then WhatsApp as reported by Gizchina. Tuesday, February 9

WhatsApp, which is in fifth position, is inseparable from a new, controversial privacy policy some time ago. Even though in December 2020, WhatsApp was in the third position of the top 5.

On the other hand, the messaging application Signal, which in the previous period was not in the top 10, now ranks third after Elon Musk has contributed to popularizing the Brian Acton application.

Some time earlier, Telegram announced that they had 100 million users in January. The event represents a shift in users from the WhatsApp messaging app to Telegram and Signal is described by Pavel Durov as "The greatest digital migration in human history."

According to the Financial Express report, the Telegram application is the most downloaded application by Android users. While on iOS, Telegram only took fourth place in January.

At the end of 2020, the Telegram messaging application was not included in the 5 most downloaded applications. The app boom was triggered by WhatsApp's controversial decision to share user data with Facebook.