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But despite its sudden popularity, Signal鈥檚 user base is still far behind competing messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WeChat, and Discord. A heated debate on security: The Signalgate incident surfaced how encrypted tools like Signal are used in government communications. Government officials defended the app鈥檚 use, calling it standard for secure communication.

Finding an audience: BuzzFeed is entering a crowded social media market, though consumer interest in non-legacy platforms like Bluesky, Telegram, and Threads is growing. Still, those newer platforms are struggling to differentiate their identity and niche, which could be a problem for BF Island.

Pentagon breach is a new low for social media: A classified document leak on Discord, Telegram, and Twitter has serious geopolitical implications. If platforms don鈥檛 take action, public sentiment might flatline.

Meta gained a strong hold over the US social media app rankings last year, with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook all boasting the highest numbers of downloads, according to Apptopia. Messaging app Telegram broke into the top 10 this year, as did relative newcomer BeReal.

"In 2025 we are going to see brands think community-first,鈥� according to Jennifer Quigley-Jones, CEO of Digital Voices. One place they will do this is on Instagram Broadcast Channels, the one-to-many messaging feature that allows users to directly engage with followers. As of last week, subscribers of the exclusive direct messaging (DM) channels can now communicate with the creators and brands they follow, similar to how they might use Discord or Patreon.

Telegram stated that it had 41 million users in the EU as of February and, in lieu of a requested update this month, told regulators it still has 鈥渟ignificantly fewer鈥� than 45 million EU users.

A year before this, he had founded Telegram, running the company from Dubai in the UAE, where he now lives. Telegram is the world's eighth largest social media messaging platform, says the Economist, popular in India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and the Ukraine, as well as other countries, with a self-reported 1 billion monthly active users worldwide.

And with the case of the Telegram CEO being arrested last month, one of the points they were making is that a platform shouldn't be liable for misuse, the user should be liable for their own misuse. I think that the bill is teetering on either edge. You need to be able to create a model that will not allow those things to happen. Marcus Johnson:.

Some of the more popular private social media platforms include Discord (used by 9.2% of Americans at least once a week or more), Signal (8.2%), Telegram (8%), Slack (6%), and Twitch (6%). Discord in particular is climbing up the ranks. The platform鈥檚 US mobile usage more than doubled between 2020 and 2022, which puts it in competition with Meta鈥檚 messaging platforms Messenger and WhatsApp.

An outage hit 19 of Cloudflare鈥檚 data centers, resulting in Amazon, Twitch, AWS, Steam, Coinbase, Telegram, Discord, DoorDash, GitLab, and others going dark for some users. Cloudflare鈥檚 outage affected roughly 50% of all global HTTP requests handled by the content delivery network. July.