TAKING a dig at rival Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram on Saturday said he was giving away their secret of being so popular for free and said: ‘respect your users’.
This comes after WhatsApp announced it was revising its privacy policy, which indicated a deeper integration with Facebook over data sharing, thus, giving way to hundreds of people opting for Telegram and Signal – WhatsApp’s alternatives.
The social networking giant is sending in-app notifications to WhatsApp users and informing them that it has decided to enforce new usage terms that give it wider control over users’ data.
“I hear Facebook has an entire department devoted to figuring out why Telegram is so popular. Imagine dozens of employees working on just that full-time. I am happy to save Facebook tens of millions of dollars and give away our secret for free: respect your users,” Durov wrote in his blog post.
Telegram is
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