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Telegram blazes through 1 billion installs on the Play Store

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For some time, Telegram has been steadily gathering momentum but the recent Facbook, Instagram and Whatsapp outage provided a huge boost. In fact that boost was so significant that during the outage, Telegram saw a record number of...

The winner from the Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook outage was Telegram

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Believe it or not, when the biggest social media and messaging provider goes down there can be a winner. Clearly, it's not their users since critical services are offline. But when that outage lasts more than a...

Signal can now be used for announcement groups

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Signal is one of the messaging apps that has seen a huge increase in userbase during the messaging wars of 2020 and 2021. As part of this upturn in userbase, their developers have been adding features which, now...

Shots fired: Telegram and WhatsApp take their war to Twitter

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When the messaging war began, who knew we would end up with over a dozen viable options? The issue that most people face is that not everyone you want to message is on a single platform. So you're...

Facebook Messenger hits 5 billion installs

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If there was ever any doubt that Facebook has a stranglehold on the messaging market, they've hit 5 billion installs on another messaging app. Following -- Facebook-owned -- WhatsApp hitting the marker in January 2020, Messenger has also...

WhatsApp stands firm on its T&C ultimatum, opening the door for competition to grab...

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We’ve seen a fairly significant response to the recent changes to Whatsapp terms and conditions. Now while very little has actually changed, the data sharing between Whatsapp and Facebook has been spelled out in black and white. ...

Telegram is shutting down public calls for violence, while walking a fine privacy line

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There is an expectation from users on any messaging platform that their privacy will be respected. But when public channels had clear calls for violence or that which could be classed as terrorism, they have taken action. ...

Telegram has 500 million downloads, but still pales in comparison to the big players

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Telegram is one of the many messaging options available in the current market. Its true cross-platform capability makes it very attractive to users like myself who use Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and even occasionally... iOS. That broad connectivity focus is...

Telegram update brings new features and better privacy

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Telegram is our messaging service of choice at Ausdroid, and we're part of a 100 million strong install base for the app. Telegram needs to stay sharp when it comes to functionality, and with regular updates, we're pretty impressed...

New Telegram update brings custom languages and more to v5.0

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There are a vast number of messaging apps available to the user but our favourite here at Ausdroid is Telegram. Today the folks have updated Telegram to v5.0 bringing a heap of new changes to the platform. The new...

Telegram 4.2 brings Snapchat style self destructing pictures

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Messaging platform Telegram's latest update brings Snapchat-style self destructing messages, the ability to add profile details and of course the usual tweaks to functionality and bug fixes. The changelog from the Play store offers a little more detail about the...

Telegram’s new phone call service is now live in Australia

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A couple of weeks ago Telegram rolled out phone calls to Western Europe with a promise of the rest of the world to follow soon. It seems they have been true to that promise with the "soon" coming sooner...

Telegram rolls out voice calls and more

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Telegram is a great chat client. It is what we use in-house here at Ausdroid. Telegram's battle is that it is relatively late to the party. WhatsApp is everywhere and offers so much. Telegram on...

Telegram update brings a host of enhancements

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Telegram made something of a splash when it landed in the third party messaging space with its fast interface, cross platform options and their integration options via either web hooks or API. The user base for third party...

Whatsapp block links to Telegram

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There is no shortage of messaging options out there these days: Skype, Facebook Messenger, Viber, Telegram, WeChat, iMessage and of course Whatsapp are just a handful of the bigger names in the messaging arena. An interesting change came...

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