Telegram receives 50 million new users in a few hours

The head of the analysis service at Telegram (TGStat), Yuri Kizkin, said that the social networking application “Telegram” received about 50 million users within a few hours due to the global outage in the “Facebook” network.

“More than 50 million new users have signed up for Telegram over the past few hours,” Kizkin said.
The statements of the head of the analysis service “Telegram” came in an interview with the Russian “RT” (Russia Today), against the background of the problem that afflicted the most famous social networks in the world, “Facebook”, “Instagram” and “WhatsApp”.

It is noteworthy that a large number of users moved to other competing applications in the virtual world, such as “Twitter”, “Tik Tok” and “Telegram”, yesterday, Monday, against the background of the problem.

A number of Facebook employees, who asked not to be named, told Reuters that they “believe the malfunction was caused by an internal error” related to how “internet traffic was routed to the company’s systems.”

Facebook’s 3.5 billion users were unable to access the company’s social media and messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, as experts considered this problem to be the biggest malfunction in the company’s history to date.

It is worth noting that the “Telegram” application or “Telegram” is famous for many unique features that many users lack in other messaging applications. It provided the first service to change the phone number without losing data, in addition to the service to customize the appearance of the application and the service The use of service robots, in addition to the most important feature, which is the great specialized security.