Firechat Gets Verified Accounts As Usage Skyrockets During Hong Kong Protests

Published October 9, 2014

FireChat Large Firechat, Open Garden’s mobile chat app that uses a mesh network to let you chat with the people around you even when there is no Internet connection, has seen a huge uptick in usage wherever there is a government that wants to suppress free speech. In Hong Kong, for example, the company saw 460,000 downloads in the last week and the service hosted over 5.1 million chat sessions in the area. Read More