A recent report quoted a source as saying that since the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has repeatedly requested Telegram to delete illegal "bottom" messages, but has continued to receive no positive response, the government may issue a ban, requiring Internet service providers to delete the APP platform. shelf.
According to statistics, there are at least 1.4 million people using Telegram in Hong Kong. Since the group function can accommodate up to 200,000 people, it attracts many fans and fans for communication.
If the government bans Telegram, how many group members will be affected?
How many people are there in each of the major idol fan groups?
Comparing the number of support club groups of some members of the boy group MIRROR, the average number of each group is 15,000.
It is understood that the group of Edan and Anson Lo has more than 24,000 people.
Because some members' fan groups are not publicly linked and require approval to join, or the group content cannot be disclosed due to the rules of the support club, the fan groups of all members are not listed above, and the number of fans of the three is unknown.
Referring to the special pages of various Instagram fan support clubs, "Jiang Tao Hong Kong Support Club" has 89,000 followers, and Liu Yingting (Jer) and Li Junjie (Jeremy)'s support club pages also have 50,000 and 30,000 followers respectively. It is estimated that three people The Telegram group also has 10,000 to 20,000 people.
In addition to MIRROR fans, COLLAR member Su Yalin (Ivy So) and ERROR member Guo Jiajun (193) also have more than 22,000 fan groups.
In addition, the group of singer Hong Jiahao, artist Wei Junsheng (Jeffrey), He Luoyao (Sica), YouTuber Huang Junming (Bo Zai) and others also have 5,000 to 8,000 people, and there are at least 25 public fan groups with more than 4,000 people.
The government estimates that Telegram has more than 100,000 active users in Hong Kong. According to DataReportal's "Digital 2022: Global" statistics, it is estimated that at least 1.4 million people in Hong Kong use Telegram.
After the news of the government or banning the program came out, fans of many support club groups heatedly discussed how to deal with it. Some netizens proposed to switch to Discord, another communication software platform that can accommodate a large number of members, causing Discord's recent downloads to surge.
MIRROR's latest online popularity rankings Jiang Tao's IG fans have the most two people's followers.
The voice is endless｜The singer's popularity on 5.15 is more than 90,000 fans than Zengbit, more than Yan Mingxi