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"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, Interesting) by maxim on Sunday February 23 2014, @03:18PM
Won't work. The hate toward Microsoft is too high among general public.
They might use Windows but only because they have to.
Well, if give any advice to MS is maybe somehow be very careful and not mention anything Windows
when selling a product.
Btw, that did work with the XBOX, even thought it also probably runs something windows derived.
Also, btw, the same sadly applies to Linux brand, peoples also scare the hell out of them when they hear 'Linux',
thats why Google tries not to mention that Android is Linux based....
Its our fault, can't not admit this.