OREANDA-NEWS The audience of the Telegram messenger has reached 950 million people. Pavel Durov, the founder of the platform, announced this in his Telegram channel.

According to Durov, the number of active users has increased by 50 million people since spring.

Earlier, the founder of Telegram announced measures to combat scammers in the messenger. Durov said that soon public Telegram accounts will display the month of creation of the channel and the country with the preferred audience for it.

In July, the entrepreneur spoke about the strong growth in the number of Telegram users in Kazakhstan. According to him, over the year, 25 percent more residents of the country began to use the messenger.