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 ...
    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      211·
      5 months ago

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

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
      181·
      5 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

  • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    Ok, but what about daily or monthly active users?

    I have an account, but I peaced out after my first experience was mostly Wendy’s ads.

  • ugjka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    5 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