Our growth relies solely on our users suggesting to their friends to download and use Telegram. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
I realized I don't have a safe means of communications. That's how Telegram started. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
I hope Telegram will be able to rely on the community even more than VK since it's a non-profit project that hopefully… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Few people outside the Telegram fan community realize that most of the new features in messaging appear on Telegram first, and are… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Telegram's popularity is spread evenly across continents. We have a substantial user base in Spain, Italy, Netherlands and Germany. Also in Brazil,… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
In my past, it looked like I could get into trouble in Russia - but I was not afraid then, and I'm not afraid… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
WhatsApp doesn't only fail to protect your WhatsApp messages - this app is being consistently used as a Trojan horse to spy on your… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
When I turned 17, I created a website for the students at my University. It enabled students to share lectures and discuss exams, and… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Any government that likes to call themselves democratic should welcome Snowden and allow him to live in their country. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
VK is famous for its competitions among third-party developers who build alternative versions of VK on its open API. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
If you have WhatsApp and your phone goes down, you don't have access to your messages. You can't send documents and it's not private. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Despite this ever-increasing evidence of WhatsApp being a honeypot for people that still trust Facebook in 2019, it might also be the case that… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
