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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by kube-system on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:40PM (#24238172)
Telegram? 5% of the world uses Telegram. And I bet the 50+ age demographic is heavily underrepresented in that subset. Significant sample bias shows up in US polling using mediums that are exponentially more widespread.

Nonetheless, I don't doubt the validity of these particular results, because I think we have enough corroborating evidence. We don't have to justify the rigorousness of a Telegram poll to come to that same conclusion.

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by tripzilch on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:27AM (#24242660)
People in different parts of the world differ HUGELY in what instant-messaging communications platform they use.

For instance people in the US still use text-messaging to a significant percentage. That's hard for me to believe as well.

It's no use looking at Telegram's world usage, that's for sure.

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by kube-system on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:08PM (#24245523)
Maybe Telegram is popular in Belarus, but there is one thing that is true all over the world: rates of technology literacy and access is lower for the old/poor/rural.
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