Telegram gained 70 million users when WhatsApp and Facebook went down 

WhatsApp recently suffered a massive outage globally which latest for more than six hours but the entire duration that WhatsApp was down, Telegram added 70 million users.

WhatsApp’s loss is Telegram’s gain. WhatsApp recently suffered a massive outage globally which latest for more than six hours but the entire duration that WhatsApp was down, Telegram added 70 million users. Along with WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram also went kaput for almost six hours on Monday evening. The social media giant has blamed a faulty configuration change for the outage that affected over 3.5 billion users across the globe. While Facebook’s outage might have incurred losses for the company, its rivals Telegram and Signal surely had a field day.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov reviled that the messaging app added 70 million users when Facebook and WhatsApp went down. “I am proud of how our team handled the unprecedented growth because Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our users. 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,” Drove wrote on its Telegram channel.