One man’s meat is another man’s poison, but if you were to translate this to the modern day context, “one web service’s outage is another service’s membership gain.” Case in point – WhatsApp, the recently acquired entity by Facebook for a whopping $19 billion, endured its biggest outage to date (not the most auspicious of starts, for sure), where even the company’s CEO has issued a formal apology. Well, their most recent outage has seen millions of new users signing up for Telegram, which is a messaging app that places plenty of emphasis on privacy as well as security.
Telegram Gains Millions Of New Users After WhatsApp Outage original content from Ubergizmo.