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Signal Sees Meteoric Rise In Daily Installs As People Look For WhatsApp Alternatives

The number of new users installing messaging app Signal every day is on track to cross 1 million, putting it closer to levels seen by larger rival WhatsApp, following an update to the Facebook Inc-owned app’s privacy policy.

About 810,000 users globally installed Signal on Sunday, nearly 18-fold compared with the download numbers on Jan. 6. To cope with the number of new users, Signal said on Sunday it had added more servers to handle the traffic.