The founder of this Tuesday on his channel Telegram, Pavel Durov Announced that over 70 million new users have registered their accounts in email Wire After the general breakdown of Facebook services the day before. ” Telegram’s daily growth rate exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day. “, wrote Durov.

Wire Messenger’s founder said that continued to work flawlessly for most users. ” That said, some users in the US may have experienced slower speeds than usual as millions of users from those continents rushed to sign up for Telegram at the same time. “, added Durov. On Monday, October 4, users around the world reported all services down Facebook, Instagram And WhatsApp.

there was no malicious activity

In a new statement, Facebook Said that the huge disruption in its services is not due to criminals. ” We would like to clarify that there was no malicious activity behind this failure, the root cause was a faulty configuration change on our part. », refers to the press release. Earlier, the company said it had no evidence of third-party interference in the services, though clarifying that the experts’ findings were not final.