If you haven’t been living under a rock all this time, you might be aware of the massive outage that Facebook faced on Monday. The global outage disrupted not only Facebook’s own service but also the platforms it owns, including Instagram and WhatsApp, for over five hours. While users, advertisers, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced grave issues following the outage, Telegram, one of the biggest competitors of WhatsApp, gained 70 million new users during the global outage.
Moreover, this is not the first time that Telegram got an advantage over WhatsApp. Last year, when WhatsApp announced its controversial policy in India, we saw the downloads of apps like Telegram and Signal skyrocket on the Google Play Store as well as the App Store. So, the major outage that WhatsApp faced recently resulted in another spike for its rivals in the market.
