Elon Musk Admits Donating To Signal App In The Past, Says He¡¯ll Donate More In Future
In case you didn¡¯t know, unlike WhatsApp or Telegram, Signal is essentially an independent 501c3 nonprofit, meaning the app runs entirely on funding and donations that it receives. This means it doesn¡¯t collect any data or place any trackers for targeting advertisements to its users.
Ever since WhatsApp updated its terms and privacy policy, people are looking for other messaging services to switch, to better safeguard their data and prevent it from being tracked and used against them.
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When the privacy policy update notification first broke out last week, there was a massive uproar among people. At the same time, the world's richest man, Elon Musk tweeted ¡®Use Signal¡¯.
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And in no time, the texting app was bombarded with a ton of users -- something the platform didn¡¯t anticipate, putting immense pressure on their servers.
Eventually, Signal caught up and bolstered its infrastructure to take on more new users, and today it is the Number 1 app on the Google Play Store as well as the Apple App Store.
And now, Elon Musk, in a conversation with one of his followers, revealed that he has already donated to Signal some time back and it plans on donating more in the coming future.
The follower @alexandersibert asked Musk, ¡°@elonmusk should invest into @signalapp for make it more popular, stable and better UX. Maybe Signal used later in every Tesla car and SpaceX project.¡±
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To this, Musk responded, ¡°Already donated to Signal a year ago. Will donate more.¡±
In case you didn¡¯t know, unlike WhatsApp or Telegram, Signal is essentially an independent 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, meaning the app runs entirely on funding and donations that it receives. This means it doesn¡¯t collect any data or place any trackers for targeting advertisements to its users.
The messenger is the brainchild of Brian Acton, one of the founders of WhatsApp and Moxie Marlinspike of Open Whisper Systems. Brian is the president of the aforementioned company and initially funded $50 million.
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It¡¯ll be interesting to see how Signal takes it forward from here in terms of newer features and upgrades. Will the users on the platform stick for longer or will they move to another platform.
Have you shifted to Signal? Tell us in the comments below.
