Threads Soars to 275 Million Monthly Users, Says Zuckerberg (nbcnewyork.com) 36
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from CNBC:
Threads now has nearly 275 million monthly users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. "We continue to be on track towards this becoming our next major social app," Zuckerberg said on a call with analysts, adding that he was "quite pleased" with the trajectory of the app.
The latest numbers indicate Threads is up 175% from a year ago when it reached 100 million users... The app is now signing up more than 1 million users per day, Zuckerberg also said on Wednesday. X remains ahead of Threads in terms of users, but not by much. Musk's social media app now has roughly 318 million monthly users, according to an estimate by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That's down 24% since Musk completed his acquisition of the company in October 2022, according to Sensor Tower.
The news also drew a reaction from ActivityPub/Activity Streams 2.0 co-author Evan Prodromou, who pointed out that the 275 million monthly active users is up from the 200 million reported just 13 weeks ago at the end of July.
"And most of them have access to the Fediverse. With more, hopefully, getting access soon."
The latest numbers indicate Threads is up 175% from a year ago when it reached 100 million users... The app is now signing up more than 1 million users per day, Zuckerberg also said on Wednesday. X remains ahead of Threads in terms of users, but not by much. Musk's social media app now has roughly 318 million monthly users, according to an estimate by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That's down 24% since Musk completed his acquisition of the company in October 2022, according to Sensor Tower.
The news also drew a reaction from ActivityPub/Activity Streams 2.0 co-author Evan Prodromou, who pointed out that the 275 million monthly active users is up from the 200 million reported just 13 weeks ago at the end of July.
"And most of them have access to the Fediverse. With more, hopefully, getting access soon."
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I'm guessing you just don't know enough bots yet. This is what all that AI is for, to pump up their subscriber numbers in order to increase their ad revenue. It's all a corrupt classist scam, welcome to our corporatocracy.
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There are so many bots talking to each other on it, pretty soon the conversations will switch to machine code.
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Zuck's post has zero information on region or demographics. It might be more of a red herring to boost EOY stock price.
It's probably real. Facebook/Instagram have been harassing people like crazy to join Threads. A lot of people probably responded to the harassment, or clicked on it to make it go away. "Your friends [names] all want to interact with you on Threads! Click here to join them!"
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I did not see any ads asking to join threads. Then again, I have Adblock and socialfixer, so I don't see any ads.
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And yet I seem to know a bunch of people who obsessively share links to BlueSky, which doesn't seem to get much media attention at all.
Given how Threads is basically something anyone on Facebook/Instagram automatically has an account with, and how there are obsessive notifications pushing people to open it (whether or not they actually care to), I have a hard time believing any such high-level usage statistics. Simply tapping those notifications by accident, then leaving two seconds later, is likely enough
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But does anyone enjoy it? (Score:5, Insightful)
All I have seen on it is baity crap content. It's like X, but somehow worse? Am I the only one thinking that?
Re: But does anyone enjoy it? (Score:5, Insightful)
More like âItâ(TM)s like X but not as bad⦠yetâ.
The baity marketing is annoying, and every time I do check out the content the nags about registering or downloading the app instantly kills any interest.
I wouldn't call it worse (Score:4, Informative)
As for enjoying it it has the advantage that you can at least still properly block people. Even right-wing shock jock Tim Pool dumped Twitter after they remove the ability to block people. Also I don't think you can buy your way into people's feeds the same way you can on Twitter. And of course Mark zuckerberg's posts don't immediately show up in your feed whether you want them to or not so there's that.
As for other people enjoy it, I'd probably say yes. The majority of people given proper tools for blocking annoying crap Just focus on the fun parts of social media. The nastier parts are rabbit holes that while you can be tricked into going down if you manage to avoid them you get to stay away from the worst of everything.
Also Facebook is actively trying to downplay politics on the platform because like the churches they have found that over politicization was turning off users and reducing engagement. So a lot of the rabbit holes have been plugged and you can't go down them anymore
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It's scary you got modded troll for what is actually an insightful post.
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Denial is a powerful force.
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If your house is without law, the only people willing to live in it will be the lawless. It's not being "frightened" to not want to spend your free time reading Nazi propaganda, hate-speech, bigotry, child porn and sex bot messages. It just means I'm not entertained by the suffering of others.
Re: But does anyone enjoy it? (Score:2)
Thereâ(TM)s a difference between random crazies, which exist on both sides, expressing hate and violence versus the leadership doing so, which pretty much happens only on one side. There really is no equivalent on right of âoethey go low, we go highâ Michelle Obama or âoeturn the other cheekâ Jimmy Carter. The voice of dialog, diplomacy, and compromise is entirely missing on the right, which makes it increasingly impossible to work across the aisle.
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Except threads does ban Nazis, White Supremacists, antisemitic's and racists in general. As opposed to X, which seems to reward them.
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274 million bots use threads daily (Score:4, Insightful)
"Streams 2.0 co-author Evan Prodromou, who pointed out that the 275 million monthly active users is up from the 200 million reported just 13 weeks ago at the end of July."
Translation: Surprise, my social media platforms usage skyrocketed before the elections.
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Or, maybe Twitter was a novelty that has somewhat blown over and nothing similar will become what it used to be.
Not surprising if you use instagram (Score:2, Insightful)
If you use instagram, its constantly pushing the service with ads and ways to trick users to sign up. Plus with Musk's actions, folks are looking for the next place to whine online not affiliated with him.
That didn't work for Google (Score:1)
The only exception to that is young people tend to dump Facebook because their parents are on it and Zuckerberg sells that problem by just buying up Facebook competitors but Facebook
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Many less-famous content creators are moving to BlueSky: They can demonstrate their portfolio without suffering trash-talk or a flame-war.
dying already (Score:4, Insightful)
they're bragging about having less than 12% of the userbase of Instagram, realistically they have even less than that
if something as polished and expensive as Concorde can disappear overnight because no one cared about it, so too can 'threads'
could be the platform hit the criticality point... (Score:2, Interesting)
Could have been that they've reached that point of criticality where there are enough users that new users add it to their social media catalogue seeing it as of enough value... After the changes at Twitter, I sure as hell am looking for a replacement for it. Something simple like twitter used to be. To the point.
I sure hope it's not a case of bots migrating to the platform for spamming for the elections.
It (Twitter) was a great source of info when you followed the correct accounts and usually kept me upd
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What has surprised me is how sticky the real accounts have been. twitter is now essentially the Star, or a movie/aliens rag at the grocery checkout. No federal/state/city/company org would put ads in a rag like that. And yet they are still using twitter. Once those groups figure out a better way to distribute info, twitter is down the tubes. I fondly remember when these orgs would call the tv station and give a response or even the old PR notices on AP. Good old days.
Musk's takeover has been an interesting experiment in that regard. When a social media app hits critical mass it is shockingly hard to dislodge. And even when it does happen it happens horizontally, from another entrenched app (FB/Instagram) moving into the space instead of a new competitor showing up.
I do wonder what the long term future of Twitter is. At a certain point it's just another Parler, and even Even Musk may tire of sinking in $1/2 billion every year to keep it afloat (though if the user base co
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Big "nope" to both their houses. (Score:2)
Posts? Likes? (Score:2)
What other engagement metrics can we gather?
275M monthly users could be a million posts or a trillion posts and likes.
Advertisers should know which.
Nope! (Score:2)
I refuse to use it!