[theaudacityofyw]

Mostly Eastern European countries. Some fringe far right groups in Western Europe use Telegram because of a percieved higher level of privacy. If WhatsApp went down for any considerable length of time, countries like Spain would fall apart. I do recall an outage of several hours a couple years back that contributed to a huge spike in Telegram and Signal installs. Then, sadly it went back up and everyone just went back to WhatsApp.

[spookie]

I'm not in either of those groups you described, thankfully not in the latter! Maybe it's just due to me being a techy.

Nonetheless, the move you described, even if short lived, shows that the effects aren't as dire as one may imagine.