Is there a way to join telegram without giving them my phone number? That just feels like a honeypot/dataleak waiting to happen.
Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
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#23I feel like Telegram has some big user base out there that organizes into communities. How do I find out about those communities to participate?
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#24Offtopic, 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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#25Earlier 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.
Specifically happened to US users.
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#26Is it just a matter of a dislike for facebook?
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#27Offtopic, 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.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#28Offtopic, 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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#29Is 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.