Tech billionaire Elon Musk has donated to and promoted secure messaging app Signal to take on Mark Zuckerberg's WhatsApp, but it's another rival that is closing the gap with the Meta Platforms Inc.-owned service.
What Happened: Telegram Messenger creator Pavel Durov revealed that his messaging app has nearly a billion users and is spreading like a "forest fire."
Speaking to conservative media personality Tucker Carlson, Durov revealed that Telegram is adding users at a breakneck speed of 2.5 million per day.
"Telegram is spreading like forest fire. Two and a half million users sign up every day, and we're sort of a threat."
Durov brought this up when Carlson told him that he had heard ...