Security News > 2021 > January > Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though

Signal is experiencing a partial outage as tens of millions of netizens flood the free secure messaging service.

Those technical difficulties come as at least 30 million people joined the non-profit end-to-end encrypted communications platform in a matter of days this week.

It's been the number-one app for social networking on Apple's App Store.

Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that privacy matters.

Signal has been recommended by big names in tech like Edward Snowden and Jack Dorsey, and more recently, Elon Musk, who last week urged his 42 million followers on Twitter to use the software.

Although Signal has been around for almost seven years, it is utterly dwarfed by WhatsApp, Snapchat, Telegram, WeChat, and others, which together serve billions of netizens.

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