Millions of WhatsApp users join Telegram as Facebook forces them to give up their data

Unfortunately, this has become mandatory this year, so those who don't comply won't be able to use WhatsApp starting February 8. Well, it looks like Facebook's decision had drastic repercussions for its customer database.
Telegram, a similar messenger service with a lot less users, has just announced a surge in the number of active users immediately after Facebook's announcement. First, the founder of the company, Pavel Durov, pointed out that Telegram surpassed 500 million monthly in the first week of January 2021.
Apparently, this is an important increase compared to last year, when “just” 1.5 million users signed up every day. Durov went on to say that while Telegram had surges of downloads before, “this time is different.”