If you’re struggling to text friends and colleagues using Telegram this morning, it’s not just you. Telegram seems to be operating at a pretty sluggish pace this morning, especially if you’re using the desktop or web client.
Reports are slowly but steadily starting to build about Telegram’s performance issues. Anecdotally, I first became aware of issues yesterday, as sending messages from the web client in Chrome pretty consistently took 5 to 15 seconds rather than the near-instant response time you’d usually expect from a messenger app. That issue has extended into today, and talking to other reporters in the field, it seems to be growing in affected users. 9to5Google’s own Ben Schoon noticed similar issues on the native Windows client yesterday, while Android Authority‘s Joe Maring told me he spotted the same issues within the Mac client this morning.
Other users are seemingly starting to catch on to some issues as well. While DownDetector didn’t receive a notable spike yesterday as I began seeing some serious slowdown in my messaging, it’s starting to pick up on reports, spiking at 274 outage claims within the past couple of hours. That’s not quite as widespread as when, say, a Google product goes down, but it’s enough noise to point to some dissatisfied users. Similarly, scoping through the Telegram subreddit surfaced similar complaints from the past couple of days.
I can’t say I’ve noticed any issues on my Pixel 8 — though it’s possible it’s simply telling me a message has sent when it actually hasn’t — but regardless, this is a pretty consistent level of smoke, rising above my own simple anecdotal evidence. We’ve reached out to Telegram for comment and will update this story if and when we hear back. For now, if you’re noticing issues with sending messages on Telegram, just know you’re not alone.
Update, 8:41 AM PT: Telegram PR replied fairly quickly after the publication of this article with the following statement:
There may have been a temporary slowdown for some users in North America but it has been resolved. Because of Telegram’s distributed infrastructure, this may have been a brief local slowdown instead of a global problem like those of other platforms.
Despite this, I’m still seeing issues sending messages on my end, and DownDetector claims are on the rise. We’ll continue to monitor this situation.
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