Soon the popular messaging app, promises to launch group video calling.

The team of the popular Telegram messenger today announced the achievement of an important milestone. In the relevant press release States that the app is now on a monthly basis is more than 400 million people around the world, writes unian.net.

“The last 100 million joined Telegram within the last year. The growth dynamics of monthly audience of Telegram for the last seven years allows us to estimate the image below,” – said in the message.

For comparison, the competing mobile messenger service WhatsApp (owned by Facebook the social network), who does not like the Telegram and the founder of Vkontakte Pavel Durovin February boasted that its user base is more than 2 billion people worldwide. At the same time, Viber messenger, which is particularly popular among Ukrainians, a year ago overcame the milestone of 1 billion active monthly users.

“In the Telegram separately indicate the number of users who daily log in to messenger those today, there are 1.5 million people”, – emphasizes the publication.

Last month Telegram in the next update, got the opportunity to group chats and channels. This year, Telegram promises to launch the long-awaited group video calling.