Downloads of Signal App Spike 30% After Trump Announces WeChat Ban
for a ban of the Tencent-owned company’s operations in the U.S.Installations of Signal, an encrypted texting app based in the United States, rose 30% in the six days following Trump’s Aug. 6 executive order signing according to a new report from app analysts SensorTower.“Most of Signal’s users are in the U.S., where it saw 1.6 million installs in the first half of this year,” SensorTower mobile analyst Stephanie Chan wrote in a Thursday blog post.Since Trump’s executive order was signed Signal saw 65,000 installations in the United States, an increase from 50,000 the week prior.