Telegram bagged 70 million new users when WhatsApp was down for a few hours
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What you need to know WhatsApp suffered from a multi-hour outage a couple of days ago and it was a big deal for its competitors. Telegram founder Pavel Durov says the messenger app gained 70 million new users during the outage. That`s a ton of people. You`d need to have been living under a rock to miss that WhatsApp and other Facebook services were down the other day — but one company very much didn`t miss it. Telegram, according to founder and chief executive Pavel Durov, picked up a massive 70 million new users during the outage. As spied by TechCrunch, Durov posted the news to his Telegram channel, saying that he was `proud` of the way the team handled the unprecedented influx of new users. Despite that, Durov does note that Telegram did suffer some degradation of service during the sign-up frenzy. 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. I am proud of how our...