Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage

Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ platform Telegram claims to have had a surge in signups during a period of downtime for Facebook’s rival messaging services. Durov doesn’t offer an explicit explanation for Telegram’s sudden spike in sign ups, but he does take a thinly veiled swipe at social networking giant Facebook — whose founder recently claimed he now plans to pivot the ad platform to ‘privacy’. A contact at Telegram confirmed to TechCrunch that the Facebook apps’ downtime is the likely cause of its latest sign up spike, telling us: “These outages always drive new users.”

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