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The great alternative to WhatsApp, Telegram, saw yesterday, during the problems in Facebook's servers, how its users uploaded to a breakneck pace. A message on the official channel of its creator, Pavel Durov`s confirmed it: «I am seeing 3 million new users on Telegram in the last 24 hours».
And no, it's no coincidence. A major failure in Facebook's services this Wednesday left users unable to send videos, photos and even audio.But not only has there been a failure in WhatsApp, but Facebook servers have also registered problems on Facebook and Instagram. The failure has been massive in Europe and at this time appears to have fully recovered.
Telegram is a quality alternative, and these actions prove it
Durov has not ventured into explaining why Telegram users were growing at this rate. However, the creator of Telegram does ensure that his platform ensures the privacy of users and there is a great differentiating element that WhatsApp has not yet adopted: the possibility of talking to users without giving their phone number.
A Telegram contact has been able to confirm that failures in Facebook's servers always generate new users on Telegram.It would be rare if, during yesterday, you did not see any new user among your Telegram contacts (in case you are already using this application). Telegram is by no means an unknown application.
Telegram has more than 200 million active users
The platform has added a lot of restrictions and settings to preserve the privacy of users. However, it has also had to deal with blockades in Russia, Iran and even China. Well, these governments need to be able to somehow decrypt user information This possibility does not exist in Telegram. Telegram is a platform that was born to combat all the main problems of WhatsApp and has shown that it can do it.
The only reason why WhatsApp is more widely used than Telegram is simple. WhatsApp has come first and it is difficult to migrate millions of users to choose to use a new service.The good thing is that it is very easy to switch from WhatsApp to Telegram, the operation and aspect are practically the same
