{"id":916101,"date":"2025-03-21T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916101"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:44:12","slug":"telegram-ceo-says-ahead-of-us-stands-whatsapp-a-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/21\/telegram-ceo-says-ahead-of-us-stands-whatsapp-a-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram CEO says: Ahead of us stands WhatsApp \u2014 a cheap &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram has reached a significant milestone, surpassing 1 billion monthly active users, as announced by its CEO Pavel Durov. In a celebratory post on his Telegram channel, Durov took the opportunity to criticise rival messaging app WhatsApp, calling it a &#8220;cheap, watered-down imitation&#8221; of Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Durov remarks on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Durov accused WhatsApp of copying Telegram&#8217;s innovations while spending billions on lobbying and PR campaigns to slow Telegram&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram has reached a significant milestone, surpassing 1 billion monthly active users, as announced by its CEO Pavel Durov. In a celebratory post on his Telegram channel, Durov took the opportunity to criticise rival messaging app WhatsApp, calling it a &#8220;cheap, watered-down imitation&#8221; of Telegram. Pavel Durov remarks on WhatsApp Durov accused WhatsApp of copying Telegram&#8217;s innovations while spending billions on lobbying and PR campaigns to slow Telegram&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}