Messaging app Telegram gained 70 million new users on October 4 after Facebook experienced a 6-hour-long outage. The outage affected Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Telegram founder Pavel Durov welcomed new users to the platform, saying “we won’t fail you when others will”. I am proud of how our team handled the unprecedented growth because Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our users, Pavel Durov, Telegram founder. Telegram recently hit 1 billion downloads and had 500 million monthly active users as of January this year. Encrypted messaging app Signal also reported gaining millions of new users on the same day