Telegram Added Over 70 Million New Users During Facebook Outage: Durov

Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new customers throughout Monday’s Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov mentioned on Tuesday, as folks worldwide have been left with out key messaging providers for almost six hours.

Facebook blamed its outage, which stored its 3.5 billion customers from accessing providers similar to WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, on a defective configuration change.

“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,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel.

Here’s what Durov said:

Yesterday Telegram skilled a report enhance in person registration and exercise.

The each day development price of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from different platforms in sooner or later. I’m happy with how our crew dealt with the unprecedented development as a result of Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the overwhelming majority of our customers. That mentioned, some customers within the Americas could have skilled slower velocity than standard as thousands and thousands of customers from these continents rushed to join Telegram on the identical time.

I ask our present customers to say hello to their newly arrived buddies, assist them unpack, and allow them to know what we have in stock. Make positive they stick round and see why Telegram is mild years forward of the competitors.

For the brand new customers I’d wish to say this – welcome to Telegram, the biggest impartial messaging platform. We will not fail you when others will.

Durov mentioned some customers within the Americas could have skilled slower speeds as thousands and thousands rushed to enroll on the identical time, however that the service labored as standard for almost all.

EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager mentioned the outage demonstrated the repercussions of counting on only a few huge gamers and underscored the necessity for extra rivals.

Russia mentioned the incident confirmed Moscow was proper to develop its personal sovereign web platforms and social networks.

WhatsApp’s almost six-hour lengthy outage on Monday hit buying and selling of property from cryptocurrencies to Russian oil, market gamers mentioned, though a fast shift to various platforms similar to Telegram restricted extreme disruption.

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