Telegram sold April Fools' gifts worth tens of millions of rubles.
On April 1, Telegram messenger introduced a brick—shaped gift in the app, which could be purchased with premium currency - stars. The limited batch of this item was 7 thousand units, it was completely sold out.
One brick cost 5,000 stars. In the official currency purchase bot, this amount can be purchased for 8299 rubles, in other ways it can be purchased more expensive. Thus, the platform earned at least 58 million rubles on bricks.
As the Newspaper points out.Ru", the owner of the gift in the profile, sell it at auction or exchange it for stars at a less favorable rate. It is noted that bricks can be a good asset for digital collectibles.
Earlier, on March 20, it became known that the monthly number of active Telegram users exceeded the 1 billion mark — the messenger took the second most popular place in the world after WhatsApp (owned by the American Meta corporation, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation). According to Telegram creator Pavel Durov, the user opens the app 21 times a day and spends 41 minutes in it.
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