‘Number of Signal users doubled from 20 to 40 million in a month’ – IT Pro – News

The number of active Signal users has doubled from 20 million to 40 million users in a month. Sources say that to The Verge. The growth has to do with the announcement of new WhatsApp privacy conditions.

According to sources that The Verge spoke in the first twelve hours after WhatsApp introduced the new terms, two million new Signal users were added. The number of users is now said to have doubled compared to a month ago: from 20 to 40 million. Signal itself does not disclose exact figures.

Recently, the influx of users caused Signal last had of a failure, after it too a big increase saw in Android downloads. Signal aims to get 100 million active users.

The popularity for the open source messaging service Signal is mainly due to the fact that, unlike WhatsApp, Signal does not store any user data at all. What’s more, Signal is largely run by volunteers and lives on donations. Not only Signal is benefiting from the criticism on WhatsApp: messaging service Telegram recently reported a large influx. In the first week of January passed Telegram the 500 million active users.

Signal employees are concerned about the app due to the strong growth, they tell The Verge. It has ensured that the goal of 100 million active users and enough donations to secure the future of Signal has come above all else, and employee warnings about poorly developed features are ignored. In addition, they are concerned that Signal is not doing enough to identify and remove bad actors who use Signal for wrong purposes.

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