Popular brands with sardonic replies on their competitor’s social media profiles are not an unusual sight, but the latest one involving Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal seems to have gone a bit too far. In a tweet earlier this week, Telegram took to Twitter to share a snarky meme featuring WhatsApp and Facebook.
Telegram posted a meme on Twitter showing the evolution of Windows’ classic Recycle Bin icon. Towards the end, it added one for 2021 with WhatsApp and Facebook in the Recycle Bin. Everyone instantly had a damn meme moment, especially since WhatsApp is trying to rebuild its image after a controversial privacy policy update. You can take a look at the meme in question below:
pic.twitter.com/9eY8NSiuRj
Now, this means war for social media managers. Just a few hours later, the Facebook-owned company responded with a meme that showed how Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted by default. In case you are out of the loop, Telegram doesn’t use end-to-end encryption for regular chats and uses client-server encryption instead. You will have to use this nifty Telegram trick called “secret chats” to get end-to-end encryption.
Telegram admin: “…and what people dont know is we’re not end-to-end encrypted by default” pic.twitter.com/yac1iSMc27
Telegram then replied saying their ‘users know how things work’ and how they have open-sourced their apps to prove it.
.@WhatsApp Our users know how things work, and have the open source apps to PROVE it. You… talk to the screenshot 🤚 it says you’re lying. pic.twitter.com/aSUotBGWh0
checks calendar. pours coffee. OK. Let’s do this. No, we can’t see your personal messages. No, we won’t delete your account. Yes, you can accept at any time.
checks calendar. pours coffee. Today’s a great day to switch to privacy. https://t.co/1fIvUmpPJr
— Signal (@signalapp) May 15, 2021
