The popularity of the application has to do with the new policies of WhatsApp data that require sharing information with Facebook.
The Signal messaging application, which focuses on the privacy and security of users, is temporarily inaccessible to its users.
“Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore the most fast possible service”, indicator the platform traversed its account on Twitter.
From now on, the company explains that the case was provoked by the large influx of new users.
“We have been adding new servers and additional capacity to a record every day of this week without delay, but we were superb including our most optimized projections. Millions and millions of new users send a message of their own.” Signal.
Preferably, these games, the company public a screenshot of the application page in the Play Market, Android app. According to the images, the platform passes the 12th of January in the category of more than 10 million installations and more than 50 million.
WhatsApp Fuga
Last week, WhatsApp notified its users that the data retrieved by the service was now shared with Facebook, which is now not the user.
The notice provoked a controversy over privacy in the Red and was constantly criticized by personalities like Tesla’s cofounder and SpaceX boss, Elon Musk, and Telegram’s cofounder, Pavel Dúrov.
As a result of the flight of users, Telegram converts the past tense to the second most downloaded application in EE.UU. A total of 545,000 times a week in a country. Signal was dropped 7.5 million times at global level between 6 and 10 January, 43 more than the previous week.