With an economy hobbled by Western sanctions and inflation, desperate Iranians are flocking to “tap-to-earn” crypto mini apps in Telegram like Hamster Kombat
Cab drivers and bikers tap away furiously on their mobile phones as they wait at red lights in the Iranian capital during an early June heatwave.
“Tap-to-earn” games like Hamster Kombat, a mini-app with more than 31M followers on Telegram, could become the defining trend of the current crypto bull market
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Sensor Tower: TikTok was the most downloaded app globally in Q1 2021, reaching 3.5B all-time downloads, followed by Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Telegram
TikTok is one of the world's fastest-growing social media platforms. Sensor Tower recently released its “Q1 2022 …
Sensor Tower: as Facebook went dark, Snap saw a 23% rise in Android users over the previous week, Telegram rose 18%, Signal rose 15%, and Twitter rose 11%
- Telegram, Signal also recorded usage surge, Sensor Tower says — Traditionally, many users switch back once services recover
DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month
DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.
Telegram reports that 100M people use the free encrypted messaging app every month, up from 60M people last May
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