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Signal

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193 articles decelerating

Signal has appeared in 193 articles since 2015-11. Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 with 14 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, Apple.

Articles
193
mentions
Velocity
-85.7%
growth rate
Acceleration
-3.357
velocity change
Sources
64
publications

Coverage Timeline

2021-10-06
Bloomberg 1 related

Sensor Tower: as Facebook went dark, Snap saw a 23% rise in Android users over the previous week, Telegram rose 18%, Signal rose 15%, and Twitter rose 11%

- Telegram, Signal also recorded usage surge, Sensor Tower says  — Traditionally, many users switch back once services recover

2021-01-17
ZDNet 5 related

DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month

DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Signal has appeared in 190 Techmeme articles since January 2015. The biggest stories include Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the... and Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a.... Frequently covered alongside WhatsApp, Telegram, Meredith Whittaker, Android, and Facebook. Coverage has shifted toward developer, consumer themes and away from regulation, safety.

Key Moments

2024Q2safety +18pts; developer +9pts; consumer -14pts
2024Q3safety -18pts; developer -9pts; consumer +21pts
2024Q4enterprise +33pts; consumer -33pts; regulation -33pts

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