Facebook, WhatsApp downtime: 70 Million New Users joined Telegram, says founder Durov

On Monday, 4 Oct 2021, Facebook, WhatsApp messaging services for gets down nearly about six hours worldwide. During this period, 70 Million of new users joined Messaging app Telegram

— Telegram Founder Durov.

“The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel.

Facebook, WhatsApp’s nearly six-hour long outage on Monday hits trading from cryptocurrencies to Russian oil, said share market experts. As a Result a quick shift to alternative platforms such as Telegram limited severe disruption.

Durov further added, “I ask our existing users to say hi to their newly arrived friends, help them unpack, and let them know what we have in stock. Make sure they stick around and see why Telegram is light years ahead of the competition.”

Reason behind Facebook, WhatsApp Down

Reason is bad configuration changes made to its backbone routers, which had forced effects and extremely brought its services to pause or halt.

Due to changed configuration of backbone routers, Facebook’s DNS (Domain Name System) servers goes offline, nearly about six hours.

In addition, Instagram.com was giving a 5xx Server Error message, while Facebook’s Downtime. The problem also affected almost all services from Facebook, like its virtual reality arm, Oculus. Users could load games they already have installed, and the browser works, but social features or installing new games didn’t.

Due to the outage of Facebook DNS, Telegram App gained nearly about 70 Million Users. Telegram, which is based in Dubai where Founder Durov resides, did not publish its data on new users, experts confirmed they saw an unprecedented boom in users on Monday. Also, Signal messaging app joined with millions of new users during Downtime.