Telegram’s active users increased during the WhatsApp outage.
WhatsApp’s nearly six-hour-long outage affected trading of Russian oil assets from cryptocurrencies on Monday, market players said, although a quick shift to alternative platforms such as Telegram limits serious disruption.
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instant messaging app Wire Gained over 70 million new users during Monday Facebook outage, WhatsApp Contestant founder Pavel Durov said Tuesday, as people around the world were left without major messaging services for nearly six hours. Facebook blamed its outage, which prevented its 3.5 billion users from accessing services like WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, on faulty configuration changes in its routers.
“Telegram’s daily growth rate exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day,” Durov wrote on his Wire Channel. Durov said some users in the US may have experienced slow speeds as millions rushed to sign up at the same time, but the service worked as usual for most. EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said the outage demonstrated the repercussions of relying on some of the big players and underscored the need for more rivals. read more
Russia said the incident showed Moscow was right to develop its own sovereign Internet platform and social network. WhatsApp’s nearly six-hour-long outage affected trading of Russian oil assets from cryptocurrencies on Monday, market players said, although a quick shift to alternative platforms such as Telegram limits serious disruption.
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