🆚 IRC vs. Telegram
- 📈 Telegram is much more popular than IRC.
- 🌍 Telegram is more popular in all countries.
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About
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others.
Telegram is a cloud-based messaging app for mobile and desktop platforms focused on security, speed, and privacy.
It provides voice and video calls, unlimited cloud storage for regular chats and media across devices, end-to-end encryption for Secret Chats, supports groups and channels with up to 200,000 members, and allows bots and mini-apps to extend functionality.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Uzbekistan in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Max🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.