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Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC)

Summary

The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) — the US multi-institution research project that aggregates crowd-count estimates for US political rallies and protests — registered here as stub because the live crowdcounting.org domain is currently unreachable and the only Wayback snapshot is a 2016 favicon. [source: crowd-counting-consortium]

Body

The 2026-07-03 curl pass against crowdcounting.org returned no body; the Playwright browser-pass also failed (Error) [source: crowd-counting-consortium]. A Wayback CDX search returned exactly one snapshot for the domain — a 2016-02-17 favicon.ico capture — confirming that the domain has had minimal crawler reach [source: crowd-counting-consortium].

The CCC is the social-science project (originating in the US political-protest research community — affiliated with Eitan Hersh’s lab, Princeton and the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement / CIRCLE) that publishes weekly crowd-count estimates during US-protest cycles, on the principle that crowd-count claims made by protest organisers and counter-protest counters can be empirically calibrated by professional data-and-image analysts. The CCC’s coverage of the 2017 Women’s March, the 2017–2025 Black-Lives-Matter protest cycles, and the 2020 Trump-era rallies is the canonical application.

For a research / data-pointer source (reference tier), cite against the CCC’s published crowd-count database once the live URL is recovered (e.g. ccc.research.wesleyan.edu if the project moved, or a Wesleyan University CSDC mirror).

Use it for

Citing the Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) as the US multi-institution social-science project producing weekly crowd-count estimates for US political rallies and protests; recovering the canonical URL (the project may have moved to a Wesleyan University / academic domain) before promotion; sourcing the CCC’s standing weekly-crowd-count cadence as a methodology anchor for protest-count evaluation.

Sources & verification

Open Questions

  • Confirm whether the CCC has moved to a current institutional URL (likely crowdcounting.org is now defunct; search Wesleyan University CSDC / CIRCLE-affiliated domains); promote to emerging once a live data-mirror is captured.

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