The Day We Fought Back: by the numbers
Thanks to everyone who participated on Tuesday. Together we demonstrated that activists, organizations, and companies can work in unison to fight mass surveillance, and laid a foundation for escalation over months to come.
Below are some numbers that quantify how we did* on Tuesday.
* The figures below represent a lower bound - at least tens of thousands of people took action independently and using tools on other sites. The statistics below do not account for that activity.
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People saw the banner
Over 24 million Americans and 13 million non-Americans saw The Day We Fight Back banner on Tuesday. -
555,000
Emails sent
185,000 Americans registered to send over 555,000 emails, two each to their two Senators and one to their Representative. -
89,000
Calls completed
The total number of completed calls reached 89,000 and another 7,000 calls went uncompleted because some legislators turned off their voicemail inboxes. -
301,000
Signatures
245,000 people internationally signed the necessaryandproportionate.org petition to demand privacy as a human right. Another 56,000 joined petitions on causes.com and change.org. -
420,000+
Facebook shares
This just the number of times the website itself was shared on Facebook. -
84,000+
Tweets
This is just the number of times the thedaywefightback.org was shared on Twitter. #StopSpying and #StopTheNSA were trending on Twitter during the afternoon. -
1,000,000+
Homepage visitors
The banner, social media and at least 6,000 websites drove over 1 million unique visitors to the homepage.