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4.95 million people signed up for Telegram today (twitter.com/telegram)
11 points by vincvinc on Feb 24, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


This is maybe not obvious from the US, but the buzz in the EU media is staggering.

Anecdata: I live in the Netherlands, and half of my whatsapp contacts switched to Telegram since yesterday. Lots of talk about privacy and discussions surrounding NSA and Facebook privacy violations.


Telegram is awesome. Having a web client and open API alone is a huge improvement, even if you don't care at all about privacy.


Well, the WhatsApp deal is definitely going to go into the history books, was $19B the price you had to pay?




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