If you think Facebook has no competition, just ask Telegram who experienced a spike in registrations during the recent Facebook outage
Facebook is often seen as an untouchable behemoth in the social media realm, a site so big that no competitor can come close. But if you trust Pavel Durov, the founder of messaging app Telegram, even a simple stumble from Facebook like a few hours of outage can have pretty serious consequences for its user base.
On Thursday, shortly after Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp came back online, Durov said on his Telegram channel (via TechCrunch) that "3 million users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours."
Telegram is interesting in that it allows for massive groups without adverts, bots, has channels, and even automation notifications via APIs. Telegram also has a desktop browser client that does not require your phone to be connected. I've also seen quite a few of my own friends suddenly appearing on Telegram this month.
See mashable.com/article/telegram-…
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On Thursday, shortly after Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp came back online, Durov said on his Telegram channel (via TechCrunch) that "3 million users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours."
Telegram is interesting in that it allows for massive groups without adverts, bots, has channels, and even automation notifications via APIs. Telegram also has a desktop browser client that does not require your phone to be connected. I've also seen quite a few of my own friends suddenly appearing on Telegram this month.
See mashable.com/article/telegram-…
#telegram
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