Telegram now seeing 12 billion daily messages, up from 1 billion in February

Pro-privacy secure messaging app Telegram is seeing some impressive usage growth this year. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF founder Pavel Durov revealed on stage the platform is now seeing 12 billion messages sent daily — up from two billion back in May, and 1 billion in February.

Its monthly active users figure remains around 60 million, as it was in May, so the growth here is more about increased engagement with the service by the existing group of users. Durov confirmed this, saying the team is seeing users who had originally installed the app as a backup messaging option switching to it as their main messaging app.