

“That said, some users in the Americas may have experienced slower speed than usual as millions of users from these continents rushed to sign up for Telegram at the same time.” “I am proud of how our team handled the unprecedented growth because Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our users,” said Mr Durov. Telegram and other messaging apps were flooded with new users as people rushed to find a replacement for Facebook products during the outage. Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov announced the massive boost in what he called a “record increase in user registration and activity”.įacebook’s 3.5bn users were unable to access its products, including Instagram and Messenger, because of a faulty configuration change the company announced. Messaging app Telegram says it added 70m new users during the six-hour outage of Facebook and WhatsApp.

(CNN) 70m people signed up for Telegram messaging app during Facebook’s hours-long outage, founder says
