Facebook explains its worst outage as 3 million users head to Telegram
Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov recently shared the news on his Telegram channel, claiming the WhatsApp alternative bagged three million new users in the last 24 hours alone. That's quite a drop in the bucket compared to Telegram's total user count of 200 million. Ironically, it also serves as just another reminder of just how indispensable Facebook has become in day-to-day digital communication. A mere 24-hour outage of the company's products can yield an enormous uptick in traffic for its rivals as users seek alternative means of communication.
Durov also boasted about Telegram's privacy and unlimited storage, something that is often touted by Messenger and WhatsApp naysayers in favour of alternatives like Telegram and Signal. While WhatsApp has had end-to-end encrytion since 2014, Facebook Messenger still does not have encryption by default, though that is said to be changing soon.
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Source: https://www.neowin.net/news/facebooks-outage-is-telegrams-gain-as-the-chat-service-gains-3-million-new-users
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HiPosted:
I'm honestly glad. I don't care for Facebook to much. MySpace was so much better back in the day.
Davi_J_CampbellPosted:
"FACEBOOK EXPLAINS ITS WORST OUTAGE...", why put this in the title if there is no explanation of the outage. Thought this was ttg not theladbible lol.
MazePosted:
I mean, I've never heard of telegram and I don't think I'd join a new social media site. 3 million people leaving compared to their 1 billion total active members is not very much.
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