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I'm surprised by these numbers. 60m monthly actives generating 12bn messages per day. So on average each active user sends 200 messages every day. That seems as
by yojo 11y ago
I'm surprised by these numbers. 60m monthly actives generating 12bn messages per day. So on average each active user sends 200 messages every day. That seems astoundingly high. Can someone more familiar with engagement metrics for this type of service comment?
- Arnt 11y agoThat probably means people use group chat. Suppose five people chat for a minute. 20-30 lines of text sent to four people (5 minus the sender) equals 80-120 countable messages. And if Telegram users act like on some old IRC channels, and have long-running chat sessions that most attendees don't pay attention to, you can get thousands per day per user.
- reddotX 11y agoi have 5 active group chats (i had to turn off notifications for telegram on Ubuntu Phone because of this)
- yojo 11y agoGot it. I was approaching it from messages sent, not messages received. I wonder if they are also counting messages received per device, rather than user. E.g. If I have a phone, a tablet, and a desktop, does every message I receive count triple for this metric?
- anc84 11y agoThey might also include presence messaging to inflate their numbers.
- Arnt 11y agoUnlikely; people's presence wobbliness may have grown since February, but by a factor of 12? Nah. I have a feeling that the main change may have been a better UI on the group chat.
- umangd 11y agoI am pretty sure they are including automated bot messages in the 12bn value. No way average user messages is 200 a day.
- bertil 11y agoI can’t comment with much more detail, but that number sounds reasonable to me.