Signal Messaging App Hits Top of Stores After Reaching 1.3 Million Downloads in One Day
The Epoch Times - BY ZACHARY STIEBER January 13, 2021
Private messaging application Signal hit the top of both Apple and Google app stores after being installed 1.3 million times on Monday.
The number of downloads was recorded by Apptopia, which tracks apps. The number was a new record for the app.
Signal utilizes end-to-end encryption to keep conversations secure, according to the website of the nonprofit Signal Foundation, the appâs developer. âWe canât read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isnât an optional modeâitâs just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time,â it says.
High-profile users include Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, and business maven Elon Musk.
Another messaging app, Telegram, shot to number two in both major app stores.
âThese types of shifts in messaging and social networking apps are not unusual,â Amir Ghodrati, director of market insights at App Annie, which analyzes apps, told news outlets in a statement. âDue to the nature of social apps and how the primary functionality involves communicating with others, their growth can often move quite quickly, based on current events.â
Users are now spending more time using messaging apps than social media ones, he added. Signal, according to App Annie, rose 926 slots to hit number one overall in iPhone downloads on Jan. 10 versus the week prior, followed by Telegram, which rose 307 positions.
The surge in popularity for Signal and Telegram came after WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, alerted users that it was updating its terms and privacy policy. Facebook under the new policy reserved the right to share data it collected on users with other companies it owns.
WhatsApp later published a web page saying the update âdoes not affect the privacy of your messages with friends or family in any way.â Instead, the update is focused on enabling businesses to use hosting services from Facebook to manage WhatsApp chats.
Brian Acton, who used to work for WhatsApp, co-founded the Signal Foundation in 2018.
âIn case you missed it, Brian left WhatsApp and Facebook last year, and has been thinking about how to best focus his future time and energy on building nonprofit technology for public good,â a blog post announcing the creation of the foundation stated.
âAs more and more of our lives happen online, data protection and privacy are critical. This isnât just important for select people in select countries. Itâs important for people from all walks of life in every part of the world. Everyone deserves to be protected. We created the Signal Foundation in response to this global need. Our plan is to pioneer a new model of technology nonprofit focused on privacy and data protection for everyone, everywhere,â Acton added.
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