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Telegram was the big winner of Facebook's massive, multi-hour outage
The platform got a massive uptick in users while WhatsApp was dead
It almost felt as society plunged into chaos as Facebook's servers went out on Tuesday, October 4 and didn't come back up until several hours later, bringing down Instagram and WhatsApp along with it. The outage affected billions of people and made them scramble to look for an alternative to reach their friends and acquaintances. The result? The competing messaging app Telegram saw a massive increase in users during those downtime hours.
Viber messenger ups group video call limit once again (APK Download)
Now you can video call up to 30 people at once for free
Viber might not be a de-facto standard like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, but the platform still has a loyal following of at least 500 million people on Android alone. Like most of its competitors, it quickly upped the group video call cap at the beginning of the pandemic, but the service isn't done — in a Play Store update note, it has revealed that you can now make video calls with up to 30 participants at once, rather than 20.
A new Google app that allows you to text your friends? Wait, is this replacing Hangouts? Wait, why? Yes, no, and because, to answer those queries, respectively. Google Messenger is now out on the Play Store, having been officially confirmed to exist by Google last month.