Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Signal App Trends after Elon Musk's Calls for Its Use


Sun 10 Jan 2021 | 08:00 PM
Rana Atef

A few hours ago, Signal application was trending after the richest man in the world Elon Musk urged everyone to use the application. He added that he will surrender using Facebook, and WhatsApp applications amid privacy concerns.

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1347240006444675072

Moreover, Signal and Telegram applications are now seeing a speed increase in demand due to the new privacy terms of WhatsApp and Facebook.

https://twitter.com/mikebutcher/status/1346959937679798274

More than 100,000 users installed Signal through Apple and Google stores in the last two days, on the other hand, Telegram was installed more than 2.2 million downloads, according to data analytics firm Sensor Tower.

Signal works just like the usual text messaging applications and it's an open source development provided free of charge by the non-profit Signal Foundation.

The application could be used for sending text, video, audio, and picture messages protected by end-to-end encryption, after verifying your phone number and letting you independently verify other Signal users' identity.

Furthermore, it can be used for creating voice and video calls either one-to-one or with a group. Also, the application is easy to download and it has a safer environment.