Signal back up after outage
17 January, 2021
Signal said on Saturday it had restored its services a day following the application faced technical difficulties since it handled a flood of new users after rival messaging software WhatsApp announced a controversial change in privacy terms.
Signal said on Saturday it had restored its services a day following the application faced technical difficulties since it handled a flood of new users after rival messaging iphone app WhatsApp announced a controversial change in privacy terms.
Signal has seen a rise in downloads carrying out a change in WhatsApp's privacy terms, which required WhatsApp users to talk about their data with both Facebook Inc and Instagram.
Signal users might see errors in a few chats as a side-effect to the outage, but will be resolved within the next update of the app, the business said https://bit.ly/3im0aQ1 in a tweet.
The error does not affect the security of the chat, the business added.
The non-profit Signal Foundation based in Silicon Valley, which currently oversees the app, premiered in February 2018 with Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp before selling it to Facebook, providing initial funding of US$50 million.
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