Access across multiple devices and no restrictions on the number of group members and file sizes are also a big selling point.Fantasy sports platform HalaPlay uses the service as an influencer board.
The freedom of having unlimited members on the app’s broadcast feature ‘Channels’ helps the company maximise its reach.
HalaPlay co-founder and CEO Swapnil Saurav said in the past two years, a single influencer had brought in, through Telegram, nearly 40,000 users for the fantasy sports platform.Edtech sector is the largest adopter of Telegram in India.
The company hosts seven Telegram groups for DevOps, Python, Java and data science.Online tutoring platform Vedantu uses Telegram to send notifications on sessions and classes, solve doubts and address users’ grievances.
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