1).īut as influential as Musk is, he isn’t tweeting in a vacuum. Still, many users - goaded in part by Musk’s tweet - flocked to other encrypted messaging apps like Telegram (now No.
Facebook has clarified that WhatsApp messages will remain encrypted and personal information like contacts would not be shared with Facebook. This is called the domino effect /qpbEW54RvM- Elon Musk January 7, 2021Ī few days earlier, on January 4, Facebook-owned WhatsApp had issued a new privacy policy, which many interpreted would mean users would be required to share personal information with Facebook’s ad network in order to use the platform. The meme illustrates the “domino effect” from Facebook’s beginnings as “a website to rate women on campus” to the Capitol being “under the control of a man in a viking hat.” Musk’s tweet came a day after he had tweeted a meme blaming Facebook for its role in the violent storming of the Capitol, in which Trump supporters, amped up on conspiracy theories about a stolen election, failed to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. Still, Friday’s usage surge came “out of nowhere.” Harada said the company hoped to have service restored in the “near future.” “We have been scaling all week to meet the increasing capacity,” Signal spokesperson Jun Harada said in an email to Recode.
The sudden growth caused widespread outages on January 15, as the company struggles to add extra server capacity for the record number of new users. Signal, for the first time, became the most downloaded app on the App Store and Google Play following Musk’s tweet, a position it has maintained for a week.
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