Conservative-friendly Telegram has 100 million more users than Twitter.
QUICK FACTS:
- Telegram has over 500 million monthly active users and is one of the 10 most downloaded apps in the world, according to the platform’s website.
- That’s compared to Twitter‘s users, numbering under 400 million, giving Telegram a 100 million user lead.
- While Twitter claims “censorship is not a part of our mission or platform,” the first few months of new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s tenure have validated fears his leadership would reduce free expression on the site, The New York Post reports.
- Numerous high-profile accounts have been banned from Twitter, including Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and a virologist who helped invent mRNA vaccine technology, Dr. Robert Malone.
- “It does appear that in the last month, particularly, Twitter has ramped up the censorship of people not just on the right, but people who go against the consensus,” Dan Gainor, of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center, said last month.
TELEGRAM IN TOP 10 LIST OF “MOST DOWNLOADED” APPS IN THE WORLD:
- Telegram “is one of the 10 most downloaded apps in the world,” according to the platform’s FAQ webpage.
- “With Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc), as well as create groups for up to 200,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences. You can write to your phone contacts and find people by their usernames. As a result, Telegram is like SMS and email combined — and can take care of all your personal or business messaging needs. In addition to this, we support end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls, as well as voice chats in groups for thousands of participants,” the page explains.
BACKGROUND:
- Another scientist, Prof. Michael Makris, who specialized in hemostasis and thrombosis at the University of Sheffield, had to delete a tweet on a new type of COVID-19 vaccine under development, or face a ban, the Post reports.
- Twitter reacted in panic after Malone’s interview with Joe Rogan, in which he applied a theory from Professor Mattias Desmet suggesting how a large population can be sent into “mass formation psychosis,” the Post added.
- “It happened so fast, it caught Google with its pants down,” Dr. Malone said. “The whole weekend after Rogan posted it, that was fascinating. I had no idea that Rogan was going to put it up on New Year’s Eve, bless his heart, but it just ripped through the world.”
