Several users reported facing issues with Telegram, the instant messaging platform. The issue began on April 2 2022 and lasted for a couple of hours. However, Telegram acknowledged the issue and fixed it soon. The outage was limited to certain regions around the world, including India. Users reported the Telegram outage on Down Detector as well.
According to DownDetector, users started facing issues with the instant messaging platform Telegram from 2 PM IST on April 2 2022. Half an hour later, the number of reports peaked at 4,464, as mentioned on the Down Detector website, about 45% of reports were about the application not functioning properly while another 36% were about server connection related problems. About 19% of users faced issues with the website as well. While these issues were reported at the Indian portal, the global Down Detector portal reports only 446 reports at the peak of the issue.
Update 5 (April 02, 2022)
02:52 pm (IST): Reports on Twitter and Downdetector indicate that Telegram is down and not working for many people around the world. We’ve added some fresh complaints for reference below.
Telegram is down againnn (Source)
Our own testing also indicates that there is an outage with the messaging app at the time