Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×
Social Networks

Threads Grew By a Bluesky This Month, Now Has Over 275 Million Users (theverge.com) 44

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge: Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger. In a post on Thursday, Mosseri said that Threads has gotten "more than 15 million signups in November alone," seemingly trying to throw some cold water over Bluesky crossing 15 million users total on Wednesday.

Mosseri also reiterated that the platform has been getting more than a million signups per day — a stat that CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during last month's earnings call — and noted that the platform has been seeing that volume of signups for "going on three months."

As November began, Mosseri posted that Threads had 275 million monthly active users....
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Threads Grew By a Bluesky This Month, Now Has Over 275 Million Users

Comments Filter:
  • I'm on threads (Score:5, Insightful)

    by future assassin ( 639396 ) on Saturday November 16, 2024 @03:51PM (#64950553)

    and its a shit hole full of engagement baiting posts of the same 100 questions all day every fucking day. I mostly post my photography and only 0 engagement tried out Bluesky for two days and engagement just for photos and not text is 30X that of Threads.

    When I singed up for Threads several months back engagement was similar to Bluesky but had to constantly mute posts to not have political shit creep in all day long. I annoying enough that I deleted my account. Waited some time to restart it but now there's literally 0 engagement unless you bait.

    Also Bluesky not Elon or Mark so that's a bonus.

    • And it's the opposite of a shithole, right now (in the context of game art and development). Lots of engagement (as much as my 4-year twitter account). So far so good. Later on, as it gets more popular, it will definitely get worse, but for now it seems the best of them all. Also they have some anti-generative-AI policy that artists love and that's another reason they flock there.
  • by oneiros27 ( 46144 ) on Saturday November 16, 2024 @04:01PM (#64950563) Homepage

    .

    • Which is about 4 to 5%. Twitter on the other hand by all accounts is somewhere between 20 and 30%. The margin is wide because Twitter no longer allows much research to be done since it wouldn't be favorable to them. It's probably closer to 30% though. Spend a few moments on Twitter and your feed will be instantly filled with pussy pics in bio posts and videos of people being killed.

      It's probably just as well it's mostly bots now. A bunch of the advertisers are coming back so they can funnel bribes into
      • I'm fairly new to X. Yes, there are bots, but they're pretty obvious. You get followed by accounts that have zero posts, and profile pics of pretty women. However, if you ignore them (don't follow back or send a DM), they don't do anything. Completely ignorable.

        The actual stuff in my feed is 99% real people. A few of them are obnoxious, but most are fine. You can direct the "algorithm" pretty well be choosing who to follow.

        If you want to see political stuff, which I do, it's worth following important ac

        • They are fake users that cost them money. Especially because now if you're a large company you have to advertise on Twitter in order to prevent Trump and Elon musk from attacking you.

          Also I question whether 99% of your stuff is from real people given what I've heard and seen online. I'm not a Twitter user but the ones I know who are are all complaining about their feeds being overwhelmed by spam bots and trolls posting snuff films.

          Not surprised you're after the political stuff. I feel like you are d
    • by Ksevio ( 865461 )

      Bigger question is how many are active. Signing up for threads from Instagram is a trivial process, but I doubt it's getting anywhere near the same activity

    • Not that long ago they were no where near that ... I've been on there and it seems empty. I'm on blue sky, people are responding and engaging. Suddenly over night threads got 200 million users, but no one's home? I've seen others question the number of users as well. Just because Lying Zuckerberg says so, that don't make it so.

  • .... metastasizing!

  • I've seen so many clickbait ads for threads. "I'm about to tell you something really interesting, you're not going to want to miss this information, it's really the best, but I can't really tell you the secret in the amount of space that's available here. If you really want to know the secret, the best way is to...[Read more?] of course, if you click read more, you're asked to install a different app than whatever one you're using and seeing the enticing clickbait on.

    Anybody who clicks on the clickbait and

  • by blahbooboo2 ( 602610 ) on Saturday November 16, 2024 @04:51PM (#64950627)

    Instagram is constantly trying to trick folks into signing up for Threads. So might have more users, i suspect its all barely used accounts. Prob doesnt matter to them since more user count means better Meta stock price.

  • by Tony Isaac ( 1301187 ) on Saturday November 16, 2024 @04:54PM (#64950633) Homepage

    Stacked on top of each other?

  • I accessed Bluesky out of curiosity and the page I landed on was... well, a Twitter / X clone.
    Thanks, but no thanks.

    • This post makes no sense.
      Social media is sharing a medium with other people over the internet.
      How is that an original idea, other than the very first?
      • You can have a wide variety of UI/UX for Social Media.
        If all the alternative can do is copy the original in all its aspects (especially when the original is subpar), allow me to express my disappointment.

    • That's hilarious, since the guy who created Blue sky was also the CEO of Twitter. Memory of a goldfish...
    • Yes, it is basically Twitter without Elon. The brands have started arriving, even. Just the other day I blocked the NFL.

      There were good things about Twitter, those things now exist in Bluesky. It remains to be seen how long before it is enshittified. Still, associating accounts with FQDNs is good to me, because it will make it that much easier to get the same audience on the next platform.

      • That makes sense. It may just be me never having liked the previous solution (UI/UX, text length limitations, etc).

        • I got into twitter late because of the length limits, but then I found that if you embrace them it encourages making clear statements with minimum dressing and bullshit.

  • it's bigger in terms of numbers of accounts... thanks to no small effort of Instagram advertising the platform and making it simplistic to all add that platform to your instagram account to the point where you can do so by accident.

    Bluesky is a whole new platform to register on, not a lateral add.

    The content is much higher quality on Bluesky and not just click bait, meaningless AI bs... copied from other accounts and rebranded.

  • stuff that mainstreams

  • Don't care (Score:4, Insightful)

    by nehumanuscrede ( 624750 ) on Saturday November 16, 2024 @09:30PM (#64950975)

    Everyone gravitates towards the site(s) where they feel comfortable and
    everyone else has the same mindset. Basically just an echo chamber that
    doesn't tolerate thoughts that deviate from those accepted by its members.

    No one seems to want to have an adult discussion any longer.

    Someone has a differing opinion and the two sides simply try to shout each
    other down and, in the case of online discussions, moderators will step in
    and either ban you from participating or bury your posts so deeply that they'll
    never see the light of day.

    Social Media has to be one of ( if not THE ) most toxic thing that ever came
    out of the internet.

  • ... another internet cesspool in the making?

  • NOBODY I know uses any of these including TikTok, etc.
    • Hate to break it to you but you might just be old. Insta and TikTok in particular skew young.
      • Glad to tell you but I've known I'm old for years ..... And I've tried some of these social media things and their BS. I'm more worried about the people that CAN'T do without them !!! TikTok stars are a joke ..so full of "Look what I discovered" and things been around for over 50 years. I laugh !
    • Bluesky is currently picking up over a million users per day. Nearly all of them are coming from Twitter. Twitter is cratering. Soon it will be just another Truth Social. The reich can't meme, and they survive on trolling libs as there is no other joy in their sad little lives which are dedicated to hating everything they don't understand, so they will follow the left. Only nobody's going to be breaking the blocking feature on Bluesky, and nobody is tweaking the algorithm to make sure it shows you posts by

  • Their signup system is broken, the captcha integration prevents me from even signing up. What a pile of crap. Which is saying something since X (twitter) is the pile of crap baseline.
    • Bluesky is growing at about a million users per day and there are some growing pains. I was able to solve the captcha just fine, and I am using Firefox with like five different content blockers. It was either a transient issue or a skill issue; either way, complaining won't help.

  • I ignored Twitter, I'm not going to worry about Threads or BlueSky.. they are both just as irrelevant to life.

  • Meta keeps sharing samples of Threads posts in my Facebook feed.

    From the examples shared, I have concluded that Threads is where people go to kvetch about life's most insignificant inconveniences.
    Stuff on the level of "the mom in front of me at checkout had put socks on her toddler that weren't the same shade of pink."

Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (3) Ha, ha, I can't believe they're actually going to adopt this sucker.

Working...