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by ex3ndr 2855 days ago
Nope, initial traction came not from VK. Source: I worked at Telegram since it's launch.
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ZoomZoomZoom 2855 days ago
Where did it come from? Any stats? Pure interest.

By the way, how do you exactly know where the user got to know about your service, and, specifically, that this spread didn't involve VK?

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ex3ndr 2855 days ago
Not sure that it will be ethically correct to share some internals of the Telegram company.

Initial source was never VK and Russia. Russians is ~1% of Telegram userbase or something like this.

How? By the number signups with russian phone numbers.

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ZoomZoomZoom 2855 days ago
Oh, than it's just me being not clear enough. Everything I've said was only about Russian segment, because I was countering an opinion that Durov's creds played a significant role in adoption in Russia.
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