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.
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.
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
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”
Why would you believe ANYTHING that meta says?
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.
Wouldn’t that be way more than 10 million?
Not shocked with how Twitter has been lately. Also it feels more or less like Twitter, if immature so far.
Zuck claims it’s up to 30 million now
I’m sure most are real, but am curious as to how many bits there are in the amount.
This is my question
Just to put it in perspective, there are about 15 million users total in the entire Fediverse, of which ~9 million are on Mastodon.
Yeah, let’s check back in a month and see if people are using it.
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)
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!”
What, for looking at a twitter alternative after it’s been performing so poorly the past few days? How is that being a sheep?
No I guess going from one company to another one not minding the underlying systemic problems is meant here
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I wonder how many might be bot accounts?
Can you pass the copium when you’re done?
