🆚 Telegram vs. X
- 📈 X is much more popular than Telegram.
- 🌎 X is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Telegram is more popular in Russia, Iran, and Ukraine.
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About
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.
X, formerly known as Twitter, is a social media platform that allows users to post short messages, images, and videos.
It supports posting ("posts" replaced "tweets" after rebranding), reposting, live audio Spaces, direct messages, hashtags, mentions, and an AI assistant called Grok that can reply to posts, answer questions, and generate images.
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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
- 🥇 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 Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Nigeria in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ghana in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Uganda in the Social Media 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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🗃️ 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 3,368,316 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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