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Over 70 Million Joined Telegram During WhatsApp Outage, Says Telegram CEO

Messaging app Telegram managed to garner over 70 million new users when Facebook’s services were down on Monday, leaving people disconnected for almost six hours. 

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Reuters

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Reported first by Reuters, this was revealed by Telegram founder Pavel Durov on his Telegram channel. “The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day,” he said.

Durov mentioned that even though some users in the US might have experienced slower speeds due to the load by millions trying to sign on to the platform and go back online, for most users, the services ran just fine. 

He added, “I am proud of how our team handled the unprecedented growth because Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our users.”

“That said, some users in the Americas may have experienced slower speed than usual as millions of users from these continents rushed to sign up for Telegram at the same time.”

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Users scrambled to alternatives such as Telegram and even Signal when WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram were down.

Even Twitter usage peaked during the outage

After Facebook services went down, people started signing on to other social media platforms that they’d not normally visit, like Twitter. Twitter greeted them with open arms with the tweet, “Hello, literally everyone!”. 

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Twitter

In fact, we even saw Twitter handles of Facebook products Instagram and WhatsApp joining in on the fun, commenting on the post. 

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European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager stated (highlighted by Reuters) that this outage is an eye-opener on the repercussions of relying on services led by big players, underscoring the need for the presence of more rivals in the market.

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Reuters

Facebook, in an official announcement, revealed that the outage occurred due to a faulty configuration change that went on and crippled all of the social media giant’s services — not just for consumers, but also internal ones for its employees. 

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Did you make a switch to some other platform during the downtime? Would you come back to any of the Facebook services? Tell us in the comments below.

Let us know how WhatsApp outage impacted your online life, and keep reading universo virtual.com for the latest in science and technology news.

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