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I managed to get almost everyone I know on Telegram in the last few years, to the point I get a WhatsApp message less than once a week. On the other hand, I usually hundreds of messages daily on Telegram. It's not hard if there's already interest among the people you talk with and you find the right way to get them on board.

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Don't you think that Telegram has the same monetization problems (it burns "a few hundred million dollars a year" while the owner left Russia with $300m in his bank account a few years ago) and they already announced their monetization plans https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/23/telegram-to-launch-an-ad-p... Where would you move next?

What's wrong with their monetization plans?

And that is an improvement over WhatsApp when Telegram doesn't even encrypt group chats?

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