![]() ![]() According to, in 2018 there were 57.7 thousand of various channels in Russian language. Very soon there was registered an amazingly disproportional demand for Telegram channels in Russia. Other users can follow his/her updates but, as a rule, can’t comment them. Technically a channel is a kind of message board that can be created by any single Telegram user. In the middle of 2015 Telegram presented the “Channel” feature. Telegram channels as a new genre of web media Since then Telegram never left the list of top online communication apps in Russia. In Russia the market was dominated by WhatsApp and Viber but Telegram managed to get two million users by the beginning of 2016 and then to triple this number by the beginning of 2017. Telegram had also big success in Iraq, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and some other countries in Central Asia and Middle East. The new messenger hit unbelievable numbers (30-40 million of downloads) in several months. The biggest demand was in Iran where Telegram didn’t have competitors due to state bans of the latter. In 2014 Telegram became available in App Store and Google Play and was immediately downloaded by a huge number of users. It was created by Pavel Durov (who had been also developer and owner of Vkontakte, the biggest Russian social network it is quite common in national media to compare him with Mark Zuckerberg). Telegram is known in the world mostly as a web messenger, a minor rival of WhatsApp. ![]()
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