This illustration picture taken on August 16, 2019 in Paris shows a smartphone showing the Telegram app logo. AFP FILE PHOTO
MOSCOW — Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov said Tuesday that the encrypted messenger app had added a “record” 70 million users in one day after Facebook was hit by a
Potentially billions of users were impacted Monday when the dominant social network and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms went offline for seven hours.
Telegram, a messenger site particularly popular in the former Soviet Union countries and Iran, is used both for private communications and sharing information and news.
“Yesterday Telegram experienced a record increase in user registration and activity,” Durov, 36, wrote on his Telegram channel.
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“We welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day.”
“For the new users I’d like to say this — welcome to Telegram, the largest independent messaging platform,” Durov added.
