

As the government asked them to delete some pages and handing over private user data in 2013, the brothers refused.Īs a result, they were forced to leave the country, but it inspired the Durovs to launch Telegram that they are now running from Dubai.

It starts with the brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov who had developed VK, Russia’s largest social media platform. Telegram has had a tumultuous history from the very beginning.

Being controversial is nothing new for the app, though. Telegram is, both, one of the fastest-growing messaging apps in the world, and the messaging app that everybody blames for enabling the spread of conspiracy theories and criminal activities. These 9 Telegram features have revolutionized messaging.
