\tAs Facebook\u2019s family of apps including WhatsApp and Instagram suffered technical difficulties, security-focused Telegram said 3 million users signed up to its service.<\/p>\n
On his Telegram channel, founder\u00a0Pavel Durov (pictured) wrote: \u201cI see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours. Good. We have true privacy and unlimited space for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
The gain is significant: in March 2018, Durov said Telegram had been used by 200 million people in the space of 30 days.<\/p>\n
While Durov did not connect the Facebook outage to the spike in users, a source told TechCrunch: \u201cThese outages always drive new users”.<\/p>\n
On 13 March, a partial outage affected Facebook users globally. It that lasted more than 14 hours and was said to be the biggest interruption suffered by the social network.<\/p>\n
Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp users also had trouble accessing services.<\/p>\n
Facebook\u00a0had to turn to rival\u00a0Twitter\u00a0to explain that \u201csome people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We\u2019re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
It has given no explanation for the cause of the outage, but later said in a tweet that it was “not related to a DDoS attack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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