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Pavel Durov

@durov · United Arab Emirates · joined 27 Sep 2008

Founder, CEO at @telegram (2013), founder, ex-CEO of @vkontakte (2006), part-time troll.

3 574 287Followers
1Following
2 451Posts total
14.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views124 213this account23 873median for 1M–10M
Reach, %3.48%this account1.02%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %2.44%this account1.59%median for 1M–10M
MetricThis accountMedian for 1M–10MRatio
Median views per post124 21323 8735.20×
Reach (views ÷ followers)3.48%1.02%3.41×
Engagement rate2.44%1.59%1.53×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.9M30 Jul
1.7M
4.2M4 Aug
32.6K
99.2K
47.1K
3.8M18 Aug
73.3K
124.2K
78.6K
1M24 Aug

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.37%30 Jul
3.34%
0.94%4 Aug
2.60%
1.70%
1.58%
1.83%18 Aug
4.06%
2.44%
3.98%
3.37%24 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.59%.

What the audience does

Likes82.2%248 800 in total
Reposts7.7%23 413 in total
Replies3.0%9 034 in total
Quotes0.9%2 703 in total
Bookmarks6.2%18 626 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

🚨 Two years ago, I was detained in Paris by police for 3 days — the longest they can hold someone before charging them. In an unprecedented move, French authorities accused the head of a major platform of crimes committed by its users. That investigation is still ongoing, 1M views · 28.5K likes · 5.4K reposts · 894 replies 24 Aug 2026 @durov Drug dealers in europe fighting for mili.gram as their telegram domain. 78.6K views · 3.1K likes · 40 reposts · 12 replies 18 Aug 2026 @durov get ready for pro.gram dia.gram holo.gram kilo.gram https://t.co/8C7dK9DuYh 124.2K views · 2.9K likes · 52 reposts · 74 replies 18 Aug 2026 @durov Ok are you ready https://t.co/IQr35Xp4VU 73.3K views · 3K likes · 3 reposts · 11 replies 18 Aug 2026 Telegram has applied for the .gram domain zone. If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains — yourname.gram. Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram — with one prompt ✨ 3.8M views · 61.6K likes · 5.6K reposts · 2.2K replies 18 Aug 2026 @durov Shame on Apple for blocking competing distribution services on iOS while making its monopoly a weapon in the arsenal of authoritarian governments and criminal extortionists. 47.1K views · 718 likes · 15 reposts · 11 replies 04 Aug 2026 @durov attack explained https://t.co/Czdg6ishBt 99.2K views · 1.5K likes · 125 reposts · 28 replies 04 Aug 2026 @durov Other apps have no idea how far ahead Telegram technically and what challenges it faces daily. Being a privacy-focused app with 1B+ users is hard. 32.6K views · 832 likes · 9 reposts · 5 replies 04 Aug 2026 Last night Apple briefly removed Telegram from the AppStore because a user had planted illegal porn in a public chat. Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks. 4.2M views · 33.7K likes · 3.8K reposts · 1.5K replies 04 Aug 2026 https://t.co/TRHWJdbcCv 1.7M views · 51.3K likes · 3.4K reposts · 1.8K replies 30 Jul 2026 Russia has designated me as a “terrorist” for refusing its demands for mass surveillance and censorship on Telegram. Under Russian law, I’m banned from “publishing information on the Internet” 😌 Russian officials are clearly confused about who can ban whom from the Internet 😉 2.9M views · 61.7K likes · 5K reposts · 2.6K replies 30 Jul 2026

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