"A mere three days after Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook's acquisition of Whatsapp, the popular smartphone messaging app suffered a major service outage that lasted three and a half hours. Left to their own devices, Whatsapp users worldwide went rushing to its rival apps, including secure chat provider Telegram. The surge in new users quickly turned into a tidal wave that brought Telegram's service to its knees:
The SMS gateways we use to send registration codes are overloaded and slow 100 SMS per second is too much. Trying to find a solution.
In its official twitter, Telegram announced that more than 1.8 million new users had joined on Saturday, Feb 22. Four hours later, it reported an additional 800 thousand.
Telegram's messaging service, which uses 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, RSA 2048 encryption and Diffie-Hellman secure key exchange, began enjoying a spike in popularity after Whatsapp's acquisition. Although it has released the source code for its java libraries and all its official clients, its server software is still closed source."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by spiritplumber on Sunday February 23 2014, @02:57PM
every two-three years people inexplicably move to a different IM platform. I'd like something like Pidgin on android, personally.
(Score: 1) by Marand on Monday February 24 2014, @03:47AM
IM+ is a multi-protocol messenger on Android, similar to how Pidgin is on other platforms. Full version costs a few bucks and it works well enough, but I don't think it's open source so it may not be trustworthy enough for anyone that requires high security.