OREANDA-NEWS  In July, VKontakte surpassed the Telegram messenger by one indicator — popularity among mobile Internet users. This was reported by MTS Big Data specialists.

Experts have studied depersonalized data on the use of social networks in Russia in 2022 and 2023. It turned out that in July of this year, VKontakte became more popular in this segment for the first time since January 2022. Its audience turned out to be one percent higher than that of Telegram, which made VKontakte the most visited social network in Russia.

It is clarified that in the second month of summer, VKontakte accounted for 33.1 percent of users of all social networks. Telegram (32.8 percent) and Odnoklassniki (20.6 percent) were also in the top three.

At the same time, analysts clarified that Telegram is still the leader in the total volume of mobile Internet traffic. Messenger accounts for about 60 percent of traffic, while VKontakte accounts for 22 percent, and Odnoklassniki accounts for 18.7 percent.

Earlier it was reported that of all social networks and messengers, Russians spend the most time on VKontakte. This became known from a survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM).