

The surge in users on Signal is also thanks to a tweet from Elon Musk following WhatsApp's updated privacy policy.Ĭompared to the other two, Telegram and WhatsApp, Signal collects no data from its users and has also promised that it is never going to share user data or show in-app ads.

Why Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all faced outagesĪfter January 6, Signal and Telegram has seen an unprecedented number of downloads with many WhatsApp users looking for more private options for messaging apps.WhatsApp bans 18.58 lakh Indian accounts in January.WhatsApp banned over 18 lakh Indian accounts in March.WhatsApp’s latest campaign highlights built-in layers of protection."Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now," he said in his post. "Sorry for the disruption today - I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about," Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday as services began returning online. The outage prompted an apology from Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and a slew of memes and jokes on Twitter, with the official account of the microblogging platform itself joined the meme-fest. Responding to a tweet from Edward Snowden urging people to switch to Signal from WhatsApp, Mr Dorsey quipped: "Signal is WhatsUp."ĭowndetector, a service that monitors reports of outages, said the Facebook service outage is the largest it has ever seen. The messaging service also received an endorsement from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Millions of new users joined the app on Monday, Signal announced on Twitter. Signal, the private messaging app endorsed by Edward Snowden, saw millions of people signing up as WhatsApp faced a prolonged downtime, according to Bloomberg. From Instagram head Adam Mosseri to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, everyone flocked to the microblogging platform as the Facebook-owned services shut out its users. With Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all facing disruptions, Twitter is where all the action was on Monday.

Reports of outages and disruptions began pouring in at about 11:30 EST on Monday - but Facebook's loss turned into gain for other platforms. Facebook suffered a six-hour outage on Monday that spanned its WhatsApp messenger and photo-sharing platform Instagram, shutting out many of its 2.7 billion global users.
