Facebook outage coincides with (or causes?) 3m new Telegram users

  • 15 March 2019
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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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