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Monday big outage on facebook decommissioned for six hours not only the social network of the same name, but also the communication applications WhatsApp and Messenger. At the same time, they are often an absolutely essential communication tool for their users, so it is no wonder that users looked around for a replacement. Outage in the end very helped mainly the Telegram and Signal applications.
Pavel durov, the founder and operator of Telegram, stated that he had recorded the tool record number of new users. It joined in a single day 70 million new users. As half a billion people use the communication application every month, this is a very noticeable increase. Durov says some users in America have seen a slowdown in service due to an unexpected rush.
Signal’s competing service also boasted of growth and states that welcomed millions of new users. The signal is approximately one tenth in terms of the number of users, which also corresponds to the order of magnitude lower number of Monday newcomers. New users during Monday also welcomed Viber, which did not state any numbers.
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