While millions of users bemoaned yesterday's social media meltdown, the global outage of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook was great news for rival messaging service Telegram
"I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours. Good. We have true privacy and unlimited space for everyone."Dubai-based Telegram differs from Facebook-owned messaging services like WhatsApp in a few ways, primarily its cloud-based"always synced" approach. You can access your messages from multiple devices simultaneously, and using it across those devices is pretty seamless. It has also offered end-to-end encryption since it launched in 2013.
Well, sort of. Be aware that for true privacy and encryption, you need to start a secret chat. Telegram doesn't offer this service by default. We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.What may be more appealing to the average user, however, is the company's commitment to maintaining a completely ad-free service , with an accompanying pledge to never sell your data or enslave your children. Seriously, that's from theirTelegram hasn't been able to escape criticism, however.
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