Global malfunction in Telegram: messenger does not work again
On Thursday, March 29, Telegram users began to complain massively about the problems in the service. According to DownDetecror , the most messages come from different regions of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The failure also affected the EU countries, including Italy, Germany and Britain.
Our users in Europe, Middle East and the CIS countries are experiencing the connection issues at the moment. We are looking into the issue and hope to bring you back online soon.
- Telegram Messenger (@telegram) on March 29, 2018.
Updated: Telegram is already working
Messages are not sent either in mobile applications or in the desktop client. The web version also does not download chats. The Telegram support service confirms the presence of problems among users in Europe, CIS countries and the Middle East. In the meantime, the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov called the reason for the failure in Europe - power outage in the server cluster Telegram. Developers do everything they can, but much depends on the data center operator, which should bring the equipment in order:
Power outage at a site . Working to fix it from our side, but a lot of depends on when the datacenter.
- Pavel Durov (@durov) on March 29, 2018
The developers promise to restore the messenger's work in the near future. All very much this is expected:
Telegram, live, please pic.twitter.com/1jnfVS2fm1
- Alexey Romanov (@snyadanak) on March 29, 2018
#telegram live !!! Too much love you to let go ...
- Dasha (@DashThe) on March 29, 2018.
# TelegramWIVI pic.twitter.com/kvBizjcBL1
- John Smith (@ Zcl1aX) on March 29, 2018
So it's already 10 minutes and not only me. What's happening?! @telegram live! pic.twitter.com/JXvPq9r7h4
- Yulia Nekrasova (@Nekrasova_Ya) on March 29, 2018
The messenger team assures that this is definitely not a DDoS attack of competitors:
No.
- Telegram Messenger (@telegram) on March 29, 2018.
Telegram wakes up! Coming soon:
Most of our users in Western Europe, Middle East, Africa are coming back online now. (Especially in Germany, Iran or the CIS), hang on just a little longer.
- Telegram Messenger (@telegram) on March 29, 2018.
The previous telegram malfunction occurred on March 5, then the messenger restored work in Europe within 40 minutes.
