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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

#21

Is there a way to join telegram without giving them my phone number? That just feels like a honeypot/dataleak waiting to happen.

That would be a no-go for me too... if I had a phone number. These days, it's actually surprisingly hard to get a free email account without having to provide a phone number.

Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

#23

I feel like Telegram has some big user base out there that organizes into communities. How do I find out about those communities to participate?

I know of this site, but there could be better ones: https://telegramchannels.me/

Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

#24

Offtopic, but "mln" really!? I swear I read "70 min new users", which is quite confusing. Is "70 Million" really too long? I can't say I've seen this one before so I'm reeling a bit. I saw "ml" used recently and almost had a heart attack, so perhaps I'm wondering why now? SI clearly states "M" no? I'd have kept it short and sweet as "70M", just saying. Heh, or perhaps 70 mega-new-users, but I digress.

Would it be possible to get a title change from dang ?

Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Source re 'old accounts'? I have an account as old as you can get, and had no problems, so I'd be interested in proof of a disproportionate impact on older accounts.

Just mainly me and two other people.

Specifically happened to US users.

Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

#27

Offtopic, but "mln" really!? I swear I read "70 min new users", which is quite confusing. Is "70 Million" really too long? I can't say I've seen this one before so I'm reeling a bit. I saw "ml" used recently and almost had a heart attack, so perhaps I'm wondering why now? SI clearly states "M" no? I'd have kept it short and sweet as "70M", just saying. Heh, or perhaps 70 mega-new-users, but I digress.

Ah, good ol' HN.

Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

#28

Offtopic, but "mln" really!? I swear I read "70 min new users", which is quite confusing. Is "70 Million" really too long? I can't say I've seen this one before so I'm reeling a bit. I saw "ml" used recently and almost had a heart attack, so perhaps I'm wondering why now? SI clearly states "M" no? I'd have kept it short and sweet as "70M", just saying. Heh, or perhaps 70 mega-new-users, but I digress.

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Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

#29
post #21

Is there a way to join telegram without giving them my phone number? That just feels like a honeypot/dataleak waiting to happen.

That would be a no-go for me too... if I had a phone number. These days, it's actually surprisingly hard to get a free email account without having to provide a phone number.

how do you live life without a phone number?
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