Facebook's massive outage helped a rival messaging app gain 3 million new users

If you're bothered by Facebook's notoriously shady data harvesting methods and various other controversies surrounding the privacy a...

If you're bothered by Facebook's notoriously shady data harvesting methods and various other controversies surrounding the privacy and security of the social networking titan's user base, it's probably not a good idea to switch to Instagram. But there are actually many competing services and platforms on the market that Mark Zuckerberg does not own.

One instant messaging app that has been growing at a pretty impressive pace for the past few years noticed a particularly large boost to its user numbers yesterday. According to its founder, Pavel Durov, a whopping 3 million people ...

from PhoneArena https://ift.tt/2Ck6Fim