Threads Grew By a Bluesky This Month, Now Has Over 275 Million Users (theverge.com) 23
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....
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....
I'm on threads (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:I'm on threads (Score:4, Insightful)
Not quite right, he's one of those nefarious billionaires Asshole warned the American people about that were trying to "steal" American democracy. If he were telling the truth, a foreign concept for him, he'd have said those nefarious billionaires were trying to buy American democracy: Elmo, Thiel, Ellison, and that Miriam Adelson. Even a right wingnut rag has a list:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/l... [forbes.com]
but I wouldn't trust that list is inclusive, it does not contain Elmo or Thiel.
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Probably because it doesn't require "donations" from a rich moron. Simply owning the means of getting the message to people. (eg FOX News) is enough to make people turn their media literacy down because they think the channel is legit.
"FOX News" has never been a news channel. It has more in common with the home shopping network than it does CNN.
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"FOX News" has never been a news channel. It has more in common with the home shopping network than it does CNN.
I think you are overestimating the quality of CNN.
How many of those are bots? (Score:3)
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Probably about the same as Facebook (Score:4, Insightful)
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 the Trump administration. I'm sure they're all desperately hoping nobody is going to notice or see those advertisements since they'll be standing right next to the stuff I mentioned earlier along with a whole heck of a lot of neo Nazis.
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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
Meta[stasize] is.... (Score:2)
.... metastasizing!
Growing by clickbait (Score:2)
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
Instagram makes it hard to avoid Threads (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
How many Olympic sized swimming pools is that (Score:3)
Stacked on top of each other?
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Bluesky the Clone (Score:1)
I accessed Bluesky out of curiosity and the page I landed on was... well, a Twitter / X clone.
Thanks, but no thanks.
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Social media is sharing a medium with other people over the internet.
How is that an original idea, other than the very first?
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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.
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If the main reason for Bluesky's popularity is for people to depart the Muskoverse then, yes, you'd expect a similar interface to the old twitter.
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I don't care for either platform, let alone who created it and why.
one offers eyeballs, other offers value (Score:2)
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.
news for normies (Score:2)
stuff that mainstreams
Don't care (Score:2)
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