Signal is having technical difficulties

Re:Signal is having technical difficulties by DyslexicAtheist on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:46PM (#25794533)

Signal grew 5x in one day[1]. A week before Musk amplified the WhatsApp story with his "Use Signal"[2] tweet. It then did the rounds on MSM. WhatsApp shoots itself in the foot (though IMO it's a blip in their stats). Parler (thankfully) has been kicked off AWS. All good news for alternative messaging technology.

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1349577579091566592

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153

edit: as daniel_sk points out this is not a x5 increase but crossing the threshold from 10+ to the next 50+ mm downloads.

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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties by Daniel_sk on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:04PM (#25794798)

Google Play has 10m+ and then 50m+ step. So if you have 40m users then you still are in the 10m+ bracket.

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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties by DyslexicAtheist on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:14PM (#25794939)

thanks I didn't know this, so it's most probably not a x5 increase but just a cross of this threshold.

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