Is Telegram the new measure of ICO success?

[cvan]

Been seeing projects' Telegram groups blow up and I think that's an attribute of success. Personally, when I find a project, I do judge them by their social media presence. How active a telegram channel does say a lot with their demand.

With the rise of groups exceeding Telegram's 50k member cap...what do you guys think?

Article: https://news.bitcoin.com/telegram-followers-the-new-metric-for-cryptocurrency-success/

[goyal.dkg]

it is just one more social media platform to connect with investors and other traders .

it plays better role bcoz here admins can get interacted with people keen to invest in the project .

[prins]

I don't think so because if a coin fails it's Telegram could still be huge even though it's irrelevant.

[mpufatzis]

Telegram is a way of communication. It is used in many countries of the world, and in some of them as in mine is completely unknown.
It is a social media platform if you run it on your phone, you can share with your friends among others, your opinion about cryptocurrencies and ICOs. It is the other way of promotion as twitter and facebook.
It is definitely not an indication of success but it can help spreading new ideas to many people.

[rh154c0d3]

yes, i think. why? because the members are the real person as another social media already full of "fake person", like twitter and instagram that the followers can be bought but telegram not. i think all of them in telegram are real person. 

[ramini]

One of the many criteria to consider to spot a good and successful ICOs is knowing the strength of its own social community because the more the community members are the success of an ICO.
And the Telegram media is one of the best ways to discuss about everything and different interests

[ramini]

yes, i think. why? because the members are the real person as another social media already full of "fake person", like twitter and instagram that the followers can be bought but telegram not. i think all of them in telegram are real person. 

Indeed, 99% of the Telegram users are real people so the more members on every ICO or coin telegram channel the more successful it can be. There's no fake and bogus accounts especially when everyone are interested and participating the discussion.

[rhenrhen]

I think Telegram is not a measure of ICO success though it is a great help of the team to communicate with the whole group. Aside from this, with Telegram, the members of the team will be updated about the project they are joining.

[Topkras]

I'm just wondering when I can buy it)) This ICO will be very successful

[Turkish88]

every cryptouser use telegram, this guarantee of succesfull ico i think.
Dev can create pinned messege with info about ico with btc adrees, and this i think will be enough for succes

[skelethon]

My only question is: why Telegram? Why did it become the de facto main platform for ICOs? Why not discord for example?

[CoinCollector006]

My only question is: why Telegram? Why did it become the de facto main platform for ICOs? Why not discord for example?

I would argue that both Telegram and Discord are measures of a successful crypto ecosystem. Investors use both to research a platform. talk with the developers and decide whether to invest their hard earned capital. Discord is starting to displace Slack since Slack is known to have security vulnerabilities.

[BeruchN]

My only question is: why Telegram? Why did it become the de facto main platform for ICOs? Why not discord for example?

I would argue that both Telegram and Discord are measures of a successful crypto ecosystem. Investors use both to research a platform. talk with the developers and decide whether to invest their hard earned capital. Discord is starting to displace Slack since Slack is known to have security vulnerabilities.

I agree. I personally prefer Discord over Telegram (because of how simple it is, doesn't need phone number, more privacy, user interface, etc).

Also generally, the more platforms - the better right? Just have everything just in case, why not? Maybe except slack though like you mentioned. 

[emmmmm]

In general, I know the number of Telegram people, because the more people, the more people are concerned about this project, maybe it's a good project.

[digaran2]

I think it may be true because now many projects discuss in Telegram. if the group members are huge it means that many people are  interested in the project.

[rahmatrf331]

I agree. telegram will be the door of ICO success. wihtout telegram, the buyer can not communicate with the owner of the project, so it will be difficult transaksipun happen.

[frmracc]

I can say yes, telegram is a really good way to communicate with the teams behind the project and also investor can ask a questions and get a direct answer from the team too on telegram. Well, a successful ICO usually have many members on the telegram group. For example Envion, they have more than 22k member on their telegram which is really big and they also collected more than $90m.

[hendra12]

i think is not. telegram is like for communication between investor and trades, they talk into telegram for promotion his project explain what is good in they project. telegram is a social media platform who use it by many country and many people maybe they use telegram for introduce they project.

[ICO Lancer]

Telegram is good way for communication and promotion, but not measure.

[waveguide]

In my own opinion, I think telegram is just one criteria to know how successful an project is going to be.