Musk’s tweet came a day after he had tweeted a meme blaming Facebook for its role in the violent storming of the Capitol, in which Trump supporters, amped up on conspiracy theories about a stolen election, failed to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory.
Still, Friday’s usage surge came “out of nowhere.” Harada said the company hoped to have service restored in the “near future.”
“We have been scaling all week to meet the increasing capacity,” Signal spokesperson Jun Harada said in an email to Recode. The sudden growth caused widespread outages on January 15, as the company struggles to add extra server capacity for the record number of new users. Signal, for the first time, became the most downloaded app on the App Store and Google Play following Musk’s tweet, a position it has maintained for a week.
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