WhatsApps acquisition by Facebook surprised everyone last week as it became perhaps the largest startup acquisition in history with the company valued at US$16 billion. Unfortunately for WhatsApp, as if almost on cue, the service went down the day after the announcement for roughly two days delivering at best intermittent connectivity for all 450 million users of the app. This, however, proved to be a boon for other messaging apps, especially Telegram, an open source clone of WhatsApp. Following WhatsApps perhaps first major service breakdown since 2009 certainly not a good start for the Facebook acquisition millions of people have signed up to Telegram. The services Twitter account noted that today it saw roughly five million new users.