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Telegram, the mobile messaging application popular for its security features, has surpassed 100 million users, the company’s co-founder Pavel Durov told the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The service is currently conveying 15 billion messages a day, up from 12 billion in September, Durov said Tuesday. While that’s less than the 45 billion missives sent daily by the 1 billion people on Facebook’s rival messaging service WhatsApp, Durov said that given Telegram’s smaller user base, its “engagement” was actually four times greater.