Telegram founder: 70 million users joined the application after Facebook crash

Pavel Durov, founder of the Telegram messaging application, revealed that a huge number of users joined the application after the Facebook outage on Monday.

Durov wrote on his Telegram channel that the application’s daily growth rate exceeded the normal rate by large numbers, according to “Reuters”.
“We have received more than 70 million users from other platforms in one day,” he added.

Durov noted that some users in the Americas may have experienced slow service as millions rushed to sign up at the same time, but the service worked as usual for the majority.

On Monday, people around the world were without major messaging services for about six hours.

And Facebook blamed the outage, which prevented 3.5 billion users from accessing services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, on a change that resulted in a flaw in the setup and configuration system.

Russia said the incident showed Moscow was right to develop its own sovereign internet platforms and social media networks.