When WhatsApp went down for four hours this weekend, nearly 5 million people signed up for messaging service Telegram. In the US and several other countries, the app is no. 1 in the social networking category, ahead of Facebook, WhatsApp, Kik, and others. It’s not immediately clear why Telegram emerged as the alternative of choice following WhatsApp’s downtime. There’s seemingly something different about Telegram.
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