[tor-talk] How do I know the number of Tor users nearby?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:13:47PM -0400, Simon Brereton wrote:
> > See
> > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
> 
> What is a censorship event?

It's when the number of users in the country is sufficiently below
(or above) the expected number of users in the country, relative to
how usage numbers change in other countries at the same time.

Nearly all such "censorship events" are false positives currently.

See also
http://research.torproject.org/techreports/detector-2011-09-09.pdf
and
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7155

--Roger