The big drop suffered this Monday in all Facebook social networks caused a boom in competing applications.
Surely you already know that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered a fall of several hours last Monday. It was news that had worldwide repercussions and the consequences have been known since then with very striking data.
On the one hand, this led to a significant economic loss for Mark Zuckerberg of $ 1 billion per hour, as well as the unexpected boom in SMS. But, how could it be otherwise, the most direct competition also experienced an earthquake.
As published in CNET, Telegram claims it added 70 million users during WhatsApp outage, what they have defined as a “record increase in user registration and activity“, something that little surprise.
Telegram is increasing in users in recent years, as well as other similar messaging applications that take privacy very into account, such as Edward Snowden’s favorite Signal.
During the fall of WhatsApp in particular, the increase in downloads was such that Telegram suffered a slowdown in its service, especially in North America. But in general they were able to solve the situation.
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram who stated in the past that WhatsApp will never be safe, shared his satisfaction through your channel: “I’m proud of how our team handled the unprecedented growth because Telegram continued to run smoothly for the vast majority of our users.“.
The trend is likely to continue, WhatsApp is increasingly viewed with worse eyes and the controversies surrounding Facebook have increased in recent weeks. Are many users who are jumping to other applications and are no longer seen as marginal options or for experts.
In short, they got 70 million new users in a few hours, more than the UK population. A great success for Telegram.