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Telegram To Reach One Billion Users Within Year

Catching WhatsApp? Billionaire founder of Telegram claims encrypted platform will reach one billion users within a year

Twitter began offering free premium features, including “blue checks,” to selected users this week, amid reports of declining active users

Honeymoon for Twitter rival Threads is over, but Meta Platforms plans “retention-driving hooks” for the messaging app

Challenge for Elon Musk? Internal documents allegedly reveal Twitter is struggling to keep its most active users engaged

Facebook-owned messaging app now used by a staggering 2 billion people, as platform defends its default use of end-to-end encryption

Governments around the world demand more and more data on Facebook users, but the US leads by far

Nearly 50 million US visitors used the social network in December, up 55 percent from the 30 million in November

Cloud

Users can cause a lot of damage when given admin rights. It is time to stop the rot, says Paul Kenyon from Avecto

Cloud

More people are coming online but the Office of National Statistics says 16.8 percent remain non-users

Google+ user metrics show 1.8 million visits last week, with over half the traffic from Google and Gmail

Mac

Apple's iPhone is the favoured buy for the next 90 days, beating Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7

Apple iPhone owners wary about prospect of 4G connections but many think they have 4G links already

Facebook lost users in the US and Canada in May but its worldwide tally continues to climb towards 700 million

Codemasters has closed its Website after substantial customer Information was stolen over a week ago

Eight years on, business social network LinkedIn reaches 100 million users as it prepares to go public