Massive VPN Surge In Brazil After Twitter Gets Banned

This is perhaps some good news for Elon Musk in regards to his antics resulting in Twitter getting banned in Brazil. The VPN Mentor research team conducted an analysis of user demand data in Brazil after X’s ban in the country, and they detected a surge of 1600% in VPN demand. This got the attention of Elon:

You can read more about this surge here: https://www.vpnmentor.com/news/vpn-surge-brazil/

However, I should point out that as I mentioned here, people or businesses using means such as VPNs to access Twitter could be fined $12,000 CAD for doing so. Thus this may be short lived.

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