It turns out Monday’s prolonged Facebook service outage hit the company right where it hurts the most: its user metrics. More than 70 million new users signed up for Telegram during the six-hour ...

On January 6, 2021, as a crowd of Donald Trump supporters began gathering for a rally near the foot of the Washington Monument, Elies Campo was spending a poignant afternoon at his family's home in ...

Following the controversies of the new WhatsApp privacy policies, several users around the world have been looking for an alternative to the app owned by Facebook. Telegram, which is already one of ...

A cybercriminal created a bot that sold access to millions of Facebook users’ cellphone numbers through the Telegram messaging app, a new report says. The bot pulled the info from a massive database ...

Telegram gained over 70 million users in one day, according to its founder. The disclosure comes after WhatsApp and other Facebook services were knocked offline this week. A major outage affected ...

The instant messaging app Telegram added a record-breaking 70 million new users on Monday while Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram went offline for several hours, according to the company's CEO. In a ...

In context: A couple of days ago, we witnessed what might have been Facebook's greatest outage. WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and even the company's internal network were down due to a configuration ...

A user holds a smartphone with an opened Facebook page in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 10, 2021. Russian authorities have ordered Facebook and messaging app Telegram to pay steep fines for failing ...

A hacker with access to a database of over 500 million Facebook profiles uses a Telegram bot to reveal a Facebook users' phone number or the Facebook ID associated with a known phone number. The hack ...

Scammers have flooded Facebook and other social media platforms with Covid-19 scams for almost as long as the disease has had a name. Now, as desperation builds for access to a limited vaccine supply, ...

Facebook’s hours-long outage on Monday may have hurt the company, its founder, shareholders and many businesses that rely on the social juggernaut’s services. But for its instant messaging rivals, it ...