🆚 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.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Type

Instant messaging app

Social media platform

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.

Headquarters

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Bastrop, Texas, United States

Website

telegram.org #21

x.com #12

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Telegram PremiumVaries by country, $2.49-$4.99/month

Free version ✔️

X PremiumBasic$3/month
Premium$8/month
Premium+$16/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The X social media platform is 11 times more popular than Telegram.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

X is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Telegram is more popular in Russia, Iran, and Ukraine.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Spain

Germany

India

Russia

France

Canada

Netherlands

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.

X is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while Telegram is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

General News

Sports

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#108

#204

#259

#277

#390

Name

Rank

#12