Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
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Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#2While interesting, I would be curious to see if people stay on Telegram now that WhatsApp is restored.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#3And one day later close to none of them are messaging over Telegram
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#4Even luckier, their system handled the load apparently. Hopefully their eng team is proud of it.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#5Link: https://t.me/durov/170
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#6I swore off whatsapp years ago and never going back!
And my uncle was one of them..
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#7How many are left after whatsapp returned ?
The same thing happen when Signal took off, followed by 3 days of outage that to date has had no explanation. All those people joined and promptly returned to WhatsApp
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#8I am used to seeing these numbers when talking about social media but really… 70 mln is a huge number. It’s a total population of many countries.. combined!
Retention will be much smaller of course.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#9Would be an achievement if they even retain 1% of it as active users.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#10Even luckier, their system handled the load apparently. Hopefully their eng team is proud of it.
Other than the 1:30 hour downtime that happened to a lot of old accounts.
I actually think it's genius if they throttled old accounts just to let new people see how good telegram is.