Messaging app Telegram says it gained 70 million new users during the widespread outage across a suite of Facebook’s social media and messaging services. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov said in a statement that it saw a “record increase in user registration and activity” when Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Facebook, went offline for around six hours. “The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcome over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel. Durov noted that some Telegram users in the Americas may have experienced slower speeds than usual on the messaging app due to volume of people attempting to register at the same time. “I ask our existing users to say hi to their newly arrived friends, help them unpack, and let them know what we have …
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