A Russian messaging start-up, known as Telegram, is showing rapid growth on their service with the total number of users now standing at 62 million.
The app was created by Russian entrepreneur, Pavel Durov, who is also known as the creator of Russian social media site VK.
Telegram's unique selling point id that it claims to be the fastest messaging app available as well as having a native app for every platform, both mobile and desktop.
Durov has said that the app is seeing about 220,000 users sign up daily and while the app has garnered most of its popularit in the Americas it has gradually made its way into the UK market and inevitably the Irish one.
The app claims that about 8 million messages are sent across the UK daily and in the US a much more impressive 40 million are sent daily.
#Telegram messages sent daily in the USA grew 8 times in 8 months. https://t.co/vynV3dtNW8 pic.twitter.com/nKA5cC7Etz
— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) February 27, 2015
#Telegram messages sent daily in the UK grew 5x since June https://t.co/vynV3dtNW8 pic.twitter.com/zMQAp7Qmls
— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) February 27, 2015
While their numbers are nowhere near the kind of figures being churned out by WhatsApp and Viber, Telegram is continuing to go and there is no doubt that the company received a boost in users after WhatsApp was taken over by Facebook. A move that triggered the security-vigilant into skepticism.
As well as claiming it is the fastest messaging service available the site also boasts, like Facebook does, that it will be free 'forever'.
