The telegram achieved a billion downloads due to the outage of Facebook

The recent outage of Facebook’s services has helped it compete directly in the messenger field. In case of service Telegram had an outage according to the portal AndroidPolice help exceed the billion download threshold Google Play.

The failure of Fabook’s services triggered the exodus of its users to Telegram

The Facebook outage, which lasted several hours two weeks ago, shut down the company’s other social services in addition to the company’s primary social network – Messenger, Instagram or WhatsApp. User loyalty went away, and many began looking for functional alternatives. Services such as Signal or Telegram mainly benefited from this.

More than 70 million new users have been added to Telegram in just a few hours. And this week, more evidence of this exodus has emerged. The telegram exceeded the threshold of 1 billion installations in the Google Play store, which so far has only been achieved by a narrow circle of Android applications.

This fact was officially confirmed by the General Director of the Telegram service, Pavel Durov. He also did not forget to mention the failures of the servers of the rival company Facebook as the main reason for the increase in installations. The multi-platform service has been waiting for a billion billion downloads for a long time, and the Google Play store has had 500,000+ installations installed for several months.

There is another milestone in front of the Telegram

Another milestone for Telegram could be breaking the 5 billion installation limit. Despite the fact that this number also includes re-installations, the service will probably not be able to do so in the near future. There is also the possibility that he will not reach this number at all. So far, only a few applications have crossed this line, and Facebook and WhatsApp are not missing.