MOSCOW, July 22 The Telegram messenger is already actively used by 950 million people a month, which is 50 million more than the same figure in the spring, said the site’s founder Pavel Durov .
“»Telegram has reached 950 million active users per month — compared to 900 million in the spring. On the way to one billion!» Durov wrote in his Telegram channel.
In April, he reported that the monthly audience of the messenger had reached 900 million people. Later that month, Durov, in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, predicted that the messenger's audience would exceed a billion within a year.