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Former Whatsapp Users Bring Telegram to its Knees

posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 23 2014, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the there-is-no-viable-alternative dept.
girlwhowaspluggedout writes:

"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."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by knorthern knight on Sunday February 23 2014, @08:55PM

    by knorthern knight (967) on Sunday February 23 2014, @08:55PM (#5410)

    1) Set up messsaging app and service
    2) Wait for Facebook to buy competitors
    3) People flee bought-up competitors, turn to your app/service
    4) You sell out to Facebook
    5) Profit

  • (Score: 1) by isostatic on Monday February 24 2014, @03:16AM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday February 24 2014, @03:16AM (#5638)

    Interestingly, WhatsApp was written by a road warrior for the road warrior [flyertalk.com].


    i am actually flying to Barcelona for MWC right now using the M&M miles award ticket (i am posting this from LH455 flight)... i obviously got these tickets many months ago - i prefer to fly using miles when i can to save company money. as you know, award ticket inventory is limited and last minute changes are nearly impossible... and this is where it gets cute:

    we announced the deal with Facebook on wednesday after the market closed. during the process, we realized there was a chance we might not be able to get the deal wrapped up and signed on wednesday and it could delay.

    when the risk of the delay became real, i said: "if we don't get it done on wednesday, it probably wont get done. i have tickets on thursday to fly out to Barcelona which i bought with miles and they are not easily refundable or even possible to change. this has to be done by wednesday or else!!!" ...and so one of the biggest deals in tech history had to be scheduled around my M&M award ticket