

It provides seemingly limitless groups and channels, and a range of other sophisticated features, including its own “bot platform.”Īs Telegram explains, “bots are simply Telegram accounts operated by software-not people-and they'll often have AI features.

Its architecture now serves more than 500 million users, through a spider’s web of connected endpoints and its own cloud back-end. Telegram is significantly more complex than its direct rivals, the likes of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal.
