Facebook and WhatsApp outage drove 70 million people to Telegram

Facebook's services, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger, went down for several hours on October four, 2022. The outage sent people to other social media sites to share jokes most the services being down, but information technology also drove people to sign upwards for alternatives that aren't powered by Facebook. According to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, seventy million people signed upwardly for Telegram during the Facebook outage.

Durov said that he was proud of how the Telegram squad handled the "unprecedented growth" (via TechCrunch):

The daily growth charge per unit of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 1000000 refugees from other platforms in i day. I am proud of how our squad handled the unprecedented growth because Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the vast bulk of our users. That said, some users in the Americas may have experienced slower speed than usual every bit millions of users from these continents rushed to sign upward for Telegram at the same time.

During the outage, our senior editor Jez Corden suggested people switch to Telegram.

Now is your chance to switch to Telegram.
— Jez (@JezCorden) Oct 4, 2022

Telegram tops our listing of the all-time WhatsApp alternatives. It'south a gratis advice app that supports several of the same features as WhatsApp, including messaging, group chats, audio calls, and video calls.

This free app is one of the most popular alternatives to WhatsApp. It supports messaging, group chats, audio calls, and video calls. It also lets people ship messages and videos to each other.

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Microsoft looks to exist bringing tabs to File Explorer on Windows eleven

Information technology's finally happening! Microsoft appears to exist adding a tabbed interface to the meridian of File Explorer, as Insiders testing the latest preview build have discovered the characteristic in a hidden state. Once enabled, tabs will announced forth the top of the File Explorer app window, allowing users to have multiple folders open in one window.