Facebook outage coincides with (or causes?) 3m new Telegram users
15 March, 2019, By Lisa Vaas
Facebook fell flat on its face on Wednesday, which seems to have led to Telegram having a busy, busy day.
On Thursday, the founder and CEO of Telegram – a popular encrypted messaging app that describes itself as the “more secure alternative” to common messaging apps like WhatsApp – announced that it had picked up three million new users in the past 24 hours: a period that coincided with nearly a day-long, worldwide outage at Facebook.
The outage brought down not only Facebook’s core service, but also its Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp services. On Thursday, Facebook blamed a misconfigured server:
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