Facebook’s outage turned into boon for another messaging platform on Wednesday 13 March. We’re talking about Telegram, which claims to be a secured channel for messaging on the internet. The boon, for the platform was that it has added more than three million new users since last evening.
It can’t be a mere co-incidence that Telegram added more users, when Facebook and Instagram had a global outage at the same time.
How do we know that Telegram added these many users? The company’s CEO, Pavel Durov, proudly shared these numbers via his official Telegram channel. This is a big feat for the Russia-based messaging platform, because just one year back, it had claimed to have over 200 million active users.
Telegram, in comparison to WhatsApp, offered end-to-end encryption support since 2013. But unlike Facebook’s hunger for users data and making money, Telegram relies on user donations, thereby not looking to collect or track user activities and messages.
Facebook took to Twitter on Wednesday, 13 March, to confirm that its family of applications, which includes Instagram, was facing service issues and were down for several users across the world.
Multiple users were reporting that while they were able to open both the platforms, sending or receiving messages on either platform, or posting of new content was not happening.
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