[seanmcdirmid]

The police and military are giving numbers, so you can easily publish those. I don't think the protesters are counting themselves, or maybe you could use AI and drones to do a survey of how many protests are out?

[johnnyanmac]

reports say around 600, so we clearly have ways to estimate crowds. This pre-dates internet.

[seanmcdirmid]

You need to do the work to do the estimate vs just getting a number handed to you via a press release.