SMS is still king, but Telegram and Signal gained lots of ground
(Android Central)

Millions switched to Telegram and Signal this week when WhatsApp was down. What you need to know After the massive Facebook outage this week, we wanted to know which messaging platforms our readers relied on. Fully 30% of WhatsApp users pivoted to their default SMS app. Almost an equal number took up Telegram, while nearly as many switched to Signal. When a service as large and interconnected as Facebook goes down, it affects just about everyone and everything we do, including how we communicate with each other on our Android phones. Monday`s outage not only affected Facebook proper, but its messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Messenger, and even Instagram DMs. Given that billions of people worldwide rely on these services, we wanted to know how their absence affected our readers and which messaging apps they turned to during the outage (and after). It seems at least some of the major competitors fared well, with Telegram saying it gained 70 million new users this week, and Sign...