According to foreign media reports, Facebook’s hours-long failure on Monday may have hurt the company, its founders, shareholders, and many businesses that rely on the services of the social giant. But it is a very good day for its instant messaging competitors.Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday local time that his instant messaging app added a staggering 70 million users yesterday. He called this a record increase in user registrations and activities for the service.
Durov wrote on his Telegram channel: “I am proud of how our team has handled unprecedented growth because Telegram continues to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our users. This day is not so perfect.”
In addition, he added: “Nevertheless, some users in the Americas may experience slower speeds than usual because millions of users from these continents come to sign up for Telegram at the same time.”
It is reported that the number of downloads of Telegram recently exceeded 1 billion. As of the beginning of this year, it has 500 million monthly active users.
Signal, which competes with Telegram and WhatsApp, also has new users. It pointed out in a tweet yesterday that millions of new users have joined the app.
This is not the first time Telegram and Signal have sacrificed the interests of their main competitors. Earlier this year, when WhatsApp was working to explain the specifics of its new privacy policy, the two companies also added millions of users.
Brian Acton, Executive Chairman of Signal Holdings, said in an interview with TechCrunch about the failure of WhatsApp earlier this year: “The smallest incident can lead to the greatest result.”
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