Meta’s Twitter rival Threads just went live and has already exceeded 10 million signups within the first seven hours, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
Didn’t they basically give it to everyone who has instagram? That would make the numbers inherently padded
While it uses your instagram account, it’s a separate app and you have to actually go through sign up to be on it. So while there is less of a hurdle, it’s definitely not anyone on instagram, only if you’ve actively signed up for it.
Yeah, let’s check back in a month and see if people are using it.
People are such sheep
Follows the Reddit flock to join Lemmy. *
Ughh… People are such sheep.
It was a considered decision to come here, unlike the 30 million people who mindlessly joined threads. So yeah, there’s a difference.
“I can read the minds of millions, nobody joining threads ever considered their decision!”
Not hard to characterize the thoughts of morons. Apparently you’re too dumb to do the same.
Zuck claims it’s up to 30 million now
Just to put it in perspective, there are about 15 million users total in the entire Fediverse, of which ~9 million are on Mastodon.
He also claimed he invited legs for VR lol
“Hello legs, would you like some VR?”
I’m sure most are real, but am curious as to how many bots there are in the amount.
This is my question
I wonder how many might be bot accounts?
Can you pass the copium when you’re done?
Not hard to achieve if they just auto-enroll everyone with a meta account.
I wish people would stop spouting nonsense and hoax like you just did.
You need to create your damn Threads account manually.
Okay, let me rephrase that.
That’s easy to achieve if you use a massive billion-person platform to aggressively push Threads on everyone’s faces and make it very easy to accidentally create an account.
Better?
Indeed it is better, because that’s actually the truth.
Do people accidentally download an app and then sign in there regularly or just this one time?
You should see my grandma’s phone. It’s full of apps from ads.
I’m pretty sure there’s 10 million grandmas.
Why would you believe ANYTHING that meta says?
Except I was prompted to create an account no less than like 2-3 times in the 2-3 times I opened Instagram after it launched. It’s not automatic but it is damn near two step enrollment. I’d like to see ”active users” two weeks/months from now after the enrollment storm passes to see who actually stayed with it.
I guarantee that my great aunt probably created one because she just wanted to get the popup to go away so she could look at pictures of her grandkids. Probably doesn’t even know what Threads is.
I literally had someone request to “follow me” who then immediately text me and ask — what is this thing that it just put me on.
They are definitely inflating numbers and making it hard to drop user count because deleting threads deletes your Instagram too.
You’ll only ever hear about total users now never “active” would be my guess which after a few days or weeks will be significantly less than the “10 million” that supposedly “signed up”
