Telegram has a massive glitch on February 18, 2024

Today, February 18, 2024, Telegram has experienced a global outage during which messaging, chats and channels are not working. The first error messages started to arrive at 14-20 Moscow time. At the moment there is no information about what exactly happened to the service and how quickly the work will be restored.
Telegram’s website is not yet available.

According to the Downdetector service, reports of problems are coming in from all over the world, from Asia, Russia, the US and other countries. Telegram’s social media service hasn’t posted any reports of the glitch yet.
As of 2:35 p.m. Moscow time, Telegram has not been restored. The messenger’s audience in Russia has grown by more than 30 million people in two years and stands at more than 82 million as of October 2023.
Telegram’s audience in Russia has grown by more than 30 million in two years.