[tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

[Nathan Freitas]

On 08/27/2013 10:13 AM, lee colleton wrote:
> Also note that the Google Play
> Store has been unblocked in Iran, allowing distribution of Orbot/Orweb in
> that country to phones with the Play Store app installed (partial
> bootstrapping problem).

We also pushed out Orbot v12 to Google Play in the last few weeks - 2
separate updates. That would not account for all of the increase, but it
could have prodded enough existing users who had not used Orbot in
awhile to start the app up again.

We have also seen about 75,000 new installs over the last 3 months.

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