Facebook’s long outage this week wasn’t an inconvenience for everybody.
Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging platform Telegram, said in a post on his platform that it picked up 3 million users over a 24-hour period, most of which overlapped with the downtime suffered by Facebook and its family of applications.
Durov also seemed to take a veiled shot at Facebook, saying in his post, “Good. We have true privacy and unlimited space for everyone.”
Telegram had not responded to a request for comment at the time of this post.
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