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Announcement from the Youth Liberation Group (FreeYouth) and the Thammasat Coalition and Rally Added a follow-up channel in addition to the new page. I enter the Telegram channel and suddenly a question mark appears, What is Telegram?
In fact, Telegram is an application that has been around for a long time. The first download was released in August 2013. As of today, 7 years have passed since the official launch of the application.
Telegram was founded by a team of three developers: Nikolai Durov, Pavel Durov, and Axel Neff, with Pavel Durov as CEO.
The main objective of Telegram applications is only one: they want to develop applications that even Russian spies cannot “hack”. It owns a social media platform called VKontakte or VK, a platform used by Russian government protesters as their main communication platform. This led to the intervention of Mail.ru, a company close to the Russian government. And finally bought the VK social media business
Before Pavel decided to leave his hometown of Russia, he used the proceeds from the sale of VK to form Berlin-based Telegram. Germany
The strong point of Telegram is that it is an encrypted application. And while keeping the data in the cloud, Pavel Durov confirmed that his Telegram app will be a non-profit app with in-app advertising. steep The founders go to investors interested in supporting themselves.
The appearance of the Telegram application is similar to the WhatsApp application, but the “themes” of the application are of different colors, with Telegram being mainly blue and WhatsApp green.
For the past seven years, the Telegram app has been one of the tools that political activists have used as a tool against the government. In both Hong Kong and Belarus Protesters sent encrypted messages while using VPNs to spread news and organize protesters.
In the Hong Kong protests against the Chinese government, Telegram announced that it would not transmit the information of Hong Kong users to the Hong Kong government. Until you are sure there will be no Chinese government intervention in Hong Kong
In July 2019, as protests in Hong Kong raged, Telegram downloads increased 323% compared to the same period last year. It achieved 110,000 downloads in Hong Kong. It has a total of 1.7 million downloads worldwide, 365 million times during that time. The inflection point of Telegram with the largest number of users in each country. It happens when there is an application Rivals have been banned, for example, in Brazil in 2015 that banned WhatsApp for 48 hours, the number of new Telegram users increased 5.7 million in a single day.
There are some parts of Telegram that are being misused, such as ISIS militants who view Telegram applications as highly secure. It is encrypted.This makes it difficult to intercept information in the middle of the road, yet Telegram is constantly trying to block terrorist communication channels. In order not to turn this application into a terrorist hideout.
Meanwhile, in Russia it has already issued orders to block Telegram, as it does not cooperate with the government in accessing users’ data and applications.
Back in Thailand, Telegram has become an application that has caught the attention of October 2020 political protesters in Thailand because it is an alternative application as a communication channel for movement, conversations and of course. Are quotes collected for political expression? There were rumors that the state would shut down the social media channels of various activists. The Telegram was then recommended as of October 18, 2020, based on research that at approximately 3:28 p.m. Telegram’s FreeYOUTH group had 110,607 participants and 34,792 people online simultaneously.
Telegram is currently one of the most used applications in the world. In April 2020, it was announced that Telegram had around 400 million monthly active users and was targeting 2022 with 1 billion users.
