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....
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.
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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.
I'm on BlueSky (Score:2)
How many of those are bots? (Score:3)
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Probably about the same as Facebook (Score:1, 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
Re: Probably about the same as Facebook (Score:2)
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 do something to the advertisers (Score:2)
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
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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
It's fishy. (Score:2)
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.
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
Re: Growing by clickbait (Score:1)
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.
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It's pretty annoying. I refuse to use Threads. Weird is that Facebook doesn't nag me to use Threads.
Re: Instagram makes it hard to avoid Threads (Score:1)
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Interesting. I never saw one. Only in Instagram.
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How many Olympic sized swimming pools is that (Score:4, Funny)
Stacked on top of each other?
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Bluesky the Clone (Score:2)
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.
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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.
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That makes sense. It may just be me never having liked the previous solution (UI/UX, text length limitations, etc).
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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.
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:4, Insightful)
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.
Is bluesky just ... (Score:1)
... another internet cesspool in the making?
Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads, who cares..... (Score:2)
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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
BlueSky is a joke. (Score:1)
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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 (Score:2)
I ignored Twitter, I'm not going to worry about Threads or BlueSky.. they are both just as irrelevant to life.
Bluesky is not yet full of things Threads is... (Score:1)
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."