Signalgate, like this Called itmay be the largest scandal to hit the Trump administration in its early months in power. But it has been great for Signal.
Because the Repeating the news On Monday Members of the Senior Trump Administration Cabinet Atlantic editor-in-chief accidentally included a chat group in the signal encrypted messaging platform where officers are making secret plans to bomb Yemen, the subsequent news rotation and the ongoing signal mention led to the ecrypted messaging platform that doubled the us Running signal tells wired. It has been given that 2025 to this day became a “Banner year” for signal growth, according to Signal's leadership, making this week the biggest US adoption of the app for almost 11 years of signal.
“In the history of the signal, this is the biggest moment of US growth through a massive margin,” said Jun Harada, head of growth and signal partnership. “It's blossoming, even on our side.”
Harada refused to provide full numbers for the signal user growth beyond its total download was in the “hundred -millions,” which has occurred for many years. But he said the week's adoption rate was twice a typical week for 2025, which was twice a standard week at the same time last year. “This happened immediately” after the Atlantic broke the story of using the Yemeni bombing, Harada said. “And it keeps it. We keep that rate every day.”
In signal history, the only comparable spike in adoption occurred when whatsapp Changed its privacy policy in 2021Says Harada, leading millions of users who abandon the communication app. But that incident often brought non-Americans to signal, unlike the current, focusing on the US signalgate.
The numbers from the Market Intelligence Firm Sensor Tower are further aligned with its own growth signal evaluation: The company says the US signal downloads rose 105 percent compared to last week -and 150 percent compared to an average week in 2024. Outside the US, the sensor tower has seen only a 21 percent increase in the signs of signals.
The Atlantic announcement on Monday was defense secretary Pete HegSth, National Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, the National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, and other Trump administration officials use an accidental outbreak of an airstrike against Houthi rebels in Ymen – Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg in that group in a shocking beach of confidence of confidence of confidence that the Trump administration's security skills still resonating days later.
The scandal asked if Executive Branch officials were planning an airstrike using weak disapproved or even personal devices instead of safe machines intended for classified conversations. Screenshots of the group's chat Na -Published by The Atlantic on Wednesday Indicate that officials use the missing signal messages to delete their communications, which is potential violation of US record maintenance laws.
