If you are a Signal user, the company recommends doing the following if you are experiencing problems with the app: Here's what you can do now…- Signal January 17, 2021

The next Signal app updates will fix this automatically. This does *not* affect your chat's security, but you may have missed a message from that contact. The head of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, apologized to users for the inconvenience, and the engineers of the IT giant explained the failure by incorrect configuration changes of the backbone routers.As an unfortunate side effect of this outage, users might see errors in some of their chats. Recall that on the evening of October 4, the WhatsApp messenger as well as the social networks Facebook and Instagram, experienced a global failure due to which the mentioned services did not function for six hours. According to available data, some users from North and South America may have encountered a low speed of the messenger, which is due to the fact that “millions of people from these continents rushed to register in Telegram”. The platform continued to operate normally “for the vast majority of users”. The founder of the messenger noted that he is proud of how the Telegram team has managed to cope with the unprecedented growth of the user audience.

That said, some users in the Americas may have experienced slower speed than usual as millions of users from these continents rushed to sign up for Telegram at the same time”. I am proud of how our team handled the unprecedented growth because Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our users.

“Yesterday Telegram experienced a record increase in user registration and activity”. “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. Telegram got 70 million new users due to the Facebook outage

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