Despite the seemingly meteoric rise in Telegram’s user base, it still pales in comparison to WhatsApp, which is estimated to have as many as 2 billion users worldwide. It’ll be interesting to see just how much WhatsApp’s user base was affected by these new policy changes. Realistically speaking, it shouldn’t be very significant, as a good chunk of users and businesses will still continue to use WhatsApp due to familiarity and ease of use. WhatsApp even issued a statement to clear the air around its new policies.
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Throughout its seven-year history, Telegram has consistently remained several steps ahead of WhatsApp in terms of features. For example, Telegram support E2E (end-to-end) encryption well before WhatsApp, along with loads of other features like stickers, the ability to embed GIFs, and more. Furthermore, Telegram lets users communicate with each other without a phone number, which adds an extra layer of privacy.