The downloads trends since the pushback around WhatsApp’s privacy policy, which has now been delayed till May 2021, shows that Signal and Telegram have been able to grab the opportunity by claiming the rebound attention. In terms of total downloads between January 6 and January 29, Signal registered 60 million downloads followed by Telegram and WhatsApp with 43 million and 32 million installs respectively.
India was the largest contributor for all three apps in terms of the number of downloads. With WhatsApp’s daily downloads now back to normal with 7.4 million downloads, Signal recorded only 3 million downloads during the period. According to Sensor Tower data, Telegram got a lead over WhatsApp and Signal between January 25 and January 29 with 7.8 million app installs. The Musk effect rocketed Signal’s downloads and helped it maintain its lead over its two competitors between January 6 to January 29 but the US-based messaging platform recorded a steep fall in the number of downloads in the last 4-5 days. During the same period, Telegram and WhatsApp were at the second and third spot with 9.3 million and 7.4 million installs, globally. Signal was downloaded around 15.5 million times during the period in which India contributed the highest with 9 million installs. While Telegram had managed a decent presence in the Indian market, according to Sensor tower data, Signal started getting more downloads than WhatsApp and Telegram in the country between January 6 and January 10, thanks to a tweet endorsement by Tesla founder Elon Musk on January 7. Ever since WhatsApp introduced its new privacy policy on January 6, users across the world have been furious and exploring other messaging platforms such as Signal and Telegram.
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Musk posted the image with the caption: "New emoji! Last one comes with free phone hack." The "last one" happened to be the WhatsApp version of the robotic arm emoji.Ĭreating history, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk, who had once decided to sell off Tesla owing to poor results, became the richest person on the planet on Thursday, going past Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos on Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world's 500 wealthiest people.The euphoria around moving to WhatsApp’s alternative seems to have settled down. Last year, taking a dig at WhatsApp over repeated users' privacy violation amid security vulnerabilities, Musk took to Twitter with a meme, showing various ‘mechanical arm' emojis representing Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and WhatsApp respectively. Thanks to all of the carriers who flipped the right switches so that people can keep switching," it further said.
"Everyone should be able to register without delay again. We are working with carriers to resolve this as quickly as possible. "Verification codes are currently delayed across several providers because so many new people are trying to join Signal right now (we can barely register our excitement). Signal then saw a flood of new users attempting to sign in. "This is called the domino effect," Musk said in a tweet.Ī vocal critic of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, he added: "Use Signal".
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The tweet posted an image of a series of ever-larger dominos, juxtaposed the start of Facebook on the Harvard University campus, all the way into becoming a platform that helped facilitate the attack on Capitol Hill. Musk tweeted a meme late on Thursday, criticising Facebook for its inability to stop Capitol chaos going viral. Encrypted messaging app Signal saw a significant surge in new users signing up for its platform after the worlds richest person on planet, Elon Musk, tweeted to his 41.5 million followers to use Signal and apparently shun WhatsApp.
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