Telegram gains 70 mn new users in one day after FB outage
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As Facebook experienced a nearly six-hour outage across its services this week, messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users. According to CEO Pavel Durov, Telegram experienced a record increase in user registration and activity amid the massive Facebook outage. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger went down for millions of users, including in India, on Monday.