Threads, Meta's alternative to X (formerly Twitter), has hit 175 million monthly users a year after its out-of-the-blue launch."What a year," Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday on Threads in announcing the platform had reached the threshold.Threads, which hit app stores on ...
    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
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      4 months ago

      Probably most, but the issue is that most are phantom accounts. See, if you don’t have a Threads account and someone there searches for you, a phantom account is created, where you’ll receive notifications trying to persuade you to “create” tour Threads account. These accounts inflate the numbers, and its why Threads had such a ridiculously fast ““adoption”” rate

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’d be willing to bet that, as a % of active users, there’s more humans on Threads than Twitter

  • ugjka@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I tried it and deleted it on first day, it just felt like the same Facebook but for instagram users, same shit with everything being determined with algo feeds