Telegram Suffers Outage In Multiple Countries
Telegram, a cross-platform mobile messaging app for smartphones and tablets for iOS, Android, and several other platforms, appears to be having outage in multiple countries on Monday evening.
The app appeared to be down and not working for a number of users, preventing some from downloading or sending images and audio.
Users from multiple countries including those from India, Australia, Myanmar, UAE, and the USA apparently faced issues while using the application.
Several users even tried to reboot their phones to solve the issue, but that didn’t work either.
Telegram via its official Twitter account has acknowledged the outage stating that the “Users in East Asia, Indonesia, India, and Australia could have experienced some connection problems. Sorry! Everything’s back to normal now.”
Users in East Asia, Indonesia, India and Australia could have experienced some connection problems. Sorry! Everything's back to normal now. pic.twitter.com/1eN4oVCsGm
— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) January 17, 2022
Telegram also shared that it has made a few changes.
We've made some changes. Can you please try logging in again?
— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) January 17, 2022
With over 500 million worldwide users, over 4,000 reports were collected by DownDetector.com, which collects data regarding instances of outages over 24 hours.
According to DownDetector.com, 47% of the reports are regarding the Telegram application whereas 36% is regarding server connection and 17% are regarding the website.
Many of the users took to Twitter to share their concerns.
I rarely use telegram and when i do it goes down 😪#telegramdown ?
— Tech Hyped (@techyped) January 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/owaisomw/status/1483115757072678912
https://twitter.com/CoDRanger20/status/1483107861177995268
And there is always an active meme squad that keeps posted with the issue:
#TelegramDown
— Gyan (@Gyaaaaani) January 17, 2022
Telegram Right Now: pic.twitter.com/AVsqTzDGYu
People shifting after #telegramdown for timepass#Telegram pic.twitter.com/3Gp0pGvVeE
— Mansi🌊 (@Maansea_) January 17, 2022