Telegram surpassed Facebook Messenger and became the second most popular messaging app in the world after WhatsApp. Pavel Durov, one of the creators of the platform, shared this good news by completing it with data from Fortune magazine. As the chart shows, WhatsApp's share of global messaging is 44%, while Telegram's has reached 31%, and this gap is narrowing. Facebook Messenger, on the other hand, has a market share of 21%. Pavel Durov used the following statements on the subject in his Telegram channel:

"Over the past five years, Telegram has surpassed Facebook Messenger to become the most popular cloud-based messaging app. Telegram is currently second only to WhatsApp, narrowing the gap with each passing year. No wonder our competitors are worried."