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…

  • Sheltac@lemmy.world
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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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

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

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