Signal vs WhatsApp Heats Up, Latter Claims ‘Through the Roof’ New Users During Facebook Crash
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Signal seized its opportunity last night to state that new registrations on the app increased drastically, as WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram services resumed after a technical glitch.
Signal has been one of the two apps (alongside Telegram) vying to rival WhatsApp in the personal communications space after the latter faced global backlash basis its privacy policy debacle. Now, after an apparent ‘technical glitch’ caused WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram apps to crash for a brief span of about 45 minutes in the late hours of Friday, March 19, Signal seized the opportunity and posted on Twitter to welcome new users registering on the app. According to the privacy focused messaging app, new registrations on Signal went “through the roof” during the period for which WhatsApp was down – in effect further heating up the Signal vs WhatsApp battle.
The tweet posted by Signal, as #WhatsAppDown trended on Twitter, read, “Signal registrations are through the roof; welcome everyone! Solidarity to the folks working on the WhatsApp outage. People outside of the tech industry will never understand how weird it sounds when someone says that they are “looking forward to some weekend downtime.” Signal did not reveal any specific details on how many registrations it got during this period, or what scale of surge did it witness.
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