Key Points:
- Telegram reveals that it gained 70 million users during the day
- Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram went offline for several hours
- The issue happened globally
The world is still in the shock of the massive outage of Facebook along with Instagram and WhatsApp which happened a day ago, and the same continued for several hours globally.
Well, now we got a new piece of information and that confirms the outage of Facebook benefited other instant messaging applications like Telegram and Signal.
The founder of the Telegram instant messaging application has officially confirmed that the platform received 70 million new users during the outage of Facebook and he has also added that the speed of the platform was reduced due to the heavy rush but the service was available for all the users globally.
It is also revealed that Signal which is also a popular instant messaging application and the same also benefited, as the instant messaging application also received new users during the outage of Facebook.
Having said that, both Telegram and Signal gained benefit when WhatsApp updated its privacy policy in the early days of this year.
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