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…

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    1 year ago

    Didn’t they basically give it to everyone who has instagram? That would make the numbers inherently padded

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      1 year ago

      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.

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    1 year ago

    Not hard to achieve if they just auto-enroll everyone with a meta account.

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      1 year ago

      I wish people would stop spouting nonsense and hoax like you just did.

      You need to create your damn Threads account manually.

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        1 year ago

        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?

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          I’ve actually not gotten any sort of advertising about it from Instagram/Meta, be in the the app or email or anything. I’ve only seen the tech blogs and people on twitter posting about it organically, so I wouldn’t say they’re aggressively pushing it, at least right now

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          1 year ago

          Do people accidentally download an app and then sign in there regularly or just this one time?

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            You should see my grandma’s phone. It’s full of apps from ads.

            I’m pretty sure there’s 10 million grandmas.

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              1 year ago

              Do you really believe that 10 million gramdma who were on Instagram has now opened threads account or are you just zucking with me?

              They have 30 million users now btw.

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        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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            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”

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          Is it something they read or something they’ve done? Perhaps they had to make their own Threads account.

          I wouldn’t be surprised if many accounts were auto-enrolled, but it may be based on activity or just a random selection to boost numbers without the massive leap of all accounts being transferred at once.

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        1 year ago

        I would like to confirm, but threads is not available in the EU and probably some other places as well…

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    1 year ago

    Not shocked with how Twitter has been lately. Also it feels more or less like Twitter, if immature so far.

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    1 year ago

    I’m not surprised at all. I fully expect “normies” to flock to this service just like anything else meta has made (except metaverse kek)