Telegram gained 70 million users during the global WhatsApp and Facebook outage on Monday

Telegram recently achieved over 1 billion downloads and has 500 million active users. Not only Telegram but Signal App also benefitted from WhatsApp and Facebook down. When WhatsApp's new privacy policy was under constant scrutiny, the messaging app, Signal, saw a surge in users. Telegram and Signal were considered to be safer alternatives as compared to WhatsApp.

With services being suspended for hours, web users began to realize that this time it was something serious that affected Facebook. Many speculated that the cyberattack knocked Facebook offline, or that perhaps a Facebook employee had hacked the company's servers. However, those more familiar with the way the Internet identified that the problem was with Facebook's DNS servers and BGP (the local peering network that Facebook uses).

The most important thing about this problem was that it completely made the Facebook servers disappear from the platform and the Internet. The outage was so dangerous that even Facebook could not detect it for quite a long time. All electronic doors and locks are automatically locked. Due to which Facebook employees had to enter their server room located in Santa Clara.