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Taras Mishchenko Editor -in -chief Mezha.media. Taras has over 15 years of experience in IT journalism, writes about new technologies and gadgets.
“Few WhatsApp users are aware that they use a copy. More than 80% of its functions have been copied from Telegram – years later,” Durov wrote.
In his publication, Durov recalls the ability to create channels, editing messages, surveys, auto -disposal, preliminary viewing of links and even a dark topic. In response, the commentators mentioned that some functions, like voice calls, appeared in WhatsApp before, not to mention the cross -cutting of messages that still does not work on Telegram by default.
This is not the first time Pavel Durov accuses WhatsApp of copying Telegram features, he periodically has made such statements since 2014. Although Durov’s projects themselves are difficult to call the original, he fully copied the idea and design of Facebook on his social network “VKontakte”, and when he lost control over it, he launched Telegram in 2013. This happened only four years after the launch of WhatsApp, which was created by American entrepreneur of Ukrainian descent Jan Kum in 2009, and later purchased for $ 19 billion in 2014 Facebook (now META).
In a comment to the unnamed Russian magazine in August 2013, which later quoted Wired, Kum said: “Pavel Durov is only able to copy great products such as Facebook and WhatsApp; he never had or will have original ideas.”
In 2018, Kum left Facebook because of the differences in the approach to the privacy of user data, it is currently not related to the development of WhatsApp.
However, whatsApp remains the most popular messenger in the world, according to Meta, it has more than 3 billion active users on a monthly basis. According to Durov, in Telegram, as of March 2025, there were more than 1 billion active users on a monthly basis.
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Taras Mishchenko Editor -in -chief Mezha.media. Taras has over 15 years of experience in IT journalism, writes about new technologies and gadgets.
“Few WhatsApp users are aware that they use a copy. More than 80% of its functions have been copied from Telegram – years later,” Durov wrote.
In his publication, Durov recalls the ability to create channels, editing messages, surveys, auto -disposal, preliminary viewing of links and even a dark topic. In response, the commentators mentioned that some functions, like voice calls, appeared in WhatsApp before, not to mention the cross -cutting of messages that still does not work on Telegram by default.
This is not the first time Pavel Durov accuses WhatsApp of copying Telegram features, he periodically has made such statements since 2014. Although Durov’s projects themselves are difficult to call the original, he fully copied the idea and design of Facebook on his social network “VKontakte”, and when he lost control over it, he launched Telegram in 2013. This happened only four years after the launch of WhatsApp, which was created by American entrepreneur of Ukrainian descent Jan Kum in 2009, and later purchased for $ 19 billion in 2014 Facebook (now META).
In a comment to the unnamed Russian magazine in August 2013, which later quoted Wired, Kum said: “Pavel Durov is only able to copy great products such as Facebook and WhatsApp; he never had or will have original ideas.”
In 2018, Kum left Facebook because of the differences in the approach to the privacy of user data, it is currently not related to the development of WhatsApp.
However, whatsApp remains the most popular messenger in the world, according to Meta, it has more than 3 billion active users on a monthly basis. According to Durov, in Telegram, as of March 2025, there were more than 1 billion active users on a monthly basis.