(David Fifield)
The number of users of the snowflake-01 bridge, as well as its bandwidth, were flat through most of April 2025, but there was a significant uptick at the end of the month.

The uptick seems to be attributable mostly to Turkmenistan, where the number of users reached unprecedented highs. The effect is visible in Tor Metrics graphs as well.

Snowflake usage in Turkmenistan has previously been analyzed in detail in the 2024 Snowflake research paper. The number of users had previously not exceeded 100. The recent counts are far above that, over 4,000 on the snowflake-01 bridge and 8,000 in total.