Signal Is About To Get More Money From Elon Musk

Recently, the instant messaging app Signal has been reporting a surge in new users and the number of downloads of the app globally. The Signal app has climbed to the top of the charts on the Apple App Store in many countries also in India and is hovering close to the top on the Google Play Store for Android in India too.

However, if you have been wondering how, Elon Musk’s tweet should provide some relief. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has been a very vocal supporter of the privacy focussed instant messaging app, at a time when Facebook-owned WhatsApp has the most users globally.

Tesla CEO — and now the world’s richest man — last week simply tweeted, “Use Signal” and that saw many people flocking to Signal. Now, Musk has revealed that he has donated to the app in the past and will do more so in the future.

One of Musk’s followers on Twitter suggested that the Tesla CEO should invest in Signal to make it stable and better. To this Musk replied, “Already donated to Signal a year ago. Will donate more.”

Musk was further asked whether he thinks if his private donations will help the Signal app to increase its capabilities. Musk replied, “Probably commenting on @signalapp will do more.”

Users are downloading instant messenger apps Signal and Telegram, as they are more secure than WhatsApp. WhatsApp shares user data and information with other businesses.

WhatsApp also says that it tracks user location data at all times, and even if the location is turned off, the app still collects and logs IP addresses and phone number codes to estimate your general location—they refer it as part of diagnostics and troubleshooting.