With Now 400 Million Monthly Active Users Telegram Announces Video Calling Service

Messaging application Telegram announces the development of a group video calling service along with the news that it has now reached 400 million monthly active users, further doubling its user base in two years.

The messaging app says that this version is going to offer both security and ease of use. Be that as it may, this claim is considered as a “not-so-subtle’ swipe at user-friendly Zoom, which has been hit by various security scandals as of late.

Critics brought up the issue that the service’s claims about offering ‘end-to-end’ encryption were bogus, and that it’s default privacy settings made it simple for the uninvited users to take advantage of this flaw and tap into video calls.

That being said Telegram has likewise confronted a lot of criticism also from the security community to some degree since its end-to-end encryption isn’t enabled by default. Telegram hit the 400 million user milestone a year after reaching 300 million users.

Which implies that it’s doubled its user base since 2018 when it had 200 million monthly active clients. The company said it’s seeing at least 1.5 million new users sign into their service consistently, and that it is the most downloaded social networking application in more than 20 nations.

However, the number one spot for the most active users is still taken up by WhatsApp which boasted 2 billion users as of February this year. Nonetheless, apart from its monthly active user announcement, the messaging app likewise detailed an assortment of new features.

Following this user would now be able to add ‘educational snippets’ to quizzes created on the service, there’s another directory present to peruse the 20,000 stickers accessible on the app, and the company is additionally adding new features to its macOS client.

The users can access more details of the new features on Telegram’s blog.