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Telegram summed 70M new users in a single day thanks to Facebook outage

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Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, stated Telegram registered over 70 million new users on Monday, October 4th, a record for the encrypted messaging app. Besides Telegram, some Facebook…
In context: A couple of days ago, we witnessed what might have been Facebook’s greatest outage. WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and even the company’s internal network were down due to a configuration change on the backbone routers, leading many who depend on these apps to find alternatives in Telegram and Signal. Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, stated Telegram registered over 70 million new users on Monday, October 4th, a record for the encrypted messaging app. Besides Telegram, some Facebook messaging app users also moved to Signal, which reported that «millions» of new users joined the platform on the same day.

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