Threads Usage Overtakes X On Mobile (techcrunch.com) 37
New data from Similarweb shows Threads has overtaken X in daily mobile users. However, X still dominates on the web with around 150 million daily web visits compared to Threads' 8.5 million daily visits. TechCrunch reports: Similarweb's data shows that Threads had 141.5 million daily active users on iOS and Android as of January 7, 2026, after months of growth, while X has 125 million daily active users on mobile devices. This appears to be the result of longer-term trends, rather than a reaction to the recent X controversies [...]. Instead, Threads' boost in daily mobile usage may be driven by other factors, including cross-promotions from Meta's larger social apps like Facebook and Instagram (where Threads is regularly advertised to existing users), its focus on creators, and the rapid rollout of new features.
Over the past year, Threads has added features like interest-based communities, better filters, DMs, long-form text, disappearing posts, and has recently been spotted testing games. Combined, the daily active user increases suggest that more people are using Threads on mobile as a more regular habit. Further reading: Threads Now Has More Than 400 Million Monthly Active Users
Over the past year, Threads has added features like interest-based communities, better filters, DMs, long-form text, disappearing posts, and has recently been spotted testing games. Combined, the daily active user increases suggest that more people are using Threads on mobile as a more regular habit. Further reading: Threads Now Has More Than 400 Million Monthly Active Users
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I mean... who do you blame for letting the competition get a one up on you other than the leader of a company? Please remove your head from Musk's arse.
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He bought the site, drastically changed it, and most of the users left.
Who would you blame?
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Leftist users who wanted people who disagreed w/ them banned left, while some of the banned people returned, as well as people who had given up on Twitter due to the censorship. I doubt that Twitter suffered much
The only immediate hit to Twitter was the companies who stopped advertising, but Twitter has recovered by monetizing the checkmarks
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You mean the same liberal media who constantly called out Biden for being old while not saying a peep about cheeto being even older right now? Or cheeto invading Greenland because he was snubbed for a peace prize?
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You mean the previously linked research from the MRC, a conservative media watchdog, funded almost exclusively by a specific network of wealthy families and foundations dedicated to building the American conservative movement, supporting right-wing populism, and promoting free-market libertarianism? That research?
And you have the gall to refer to that research, but argue in the same paragraph that there is a left-wing bias in the media because j
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When did the mainstream media call Biden old, or call into question his mental capacities?
Oh, that's right, immediately after that June debate with Trump (conveniently pushed for by the Democrats, a June debate that has never happened before), called into question Biden's aptitude conveniently when it was expedient for the Democrats to push him out with enough time to run Kamala through the circus, pretend she legitimately got her billion in donations from "stomping the grounds", right?
You mean that same un
Re: The most relevant facts still show X dominates (Score:1)
Secondly, Trump is mentally unstable and dangerous for the US. Threatening allies is going to push the world into pulling the rug out from US world leader. Those of us outside the US are tired of his threats and bullshit. We will form a world order that doesnâ€(TM)t include the US. Bye bye trade, kiss your bonds goodbye too. This will
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Also, only the most simpleminded among us would actually believe Trump would have a military incursion into Greenland.
Those, and people like you that WANT to believe it for their own purposes of having more reason to hate their opposition.
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"Trump refuses to rule out using military force to take Greenland and Panama Canal "
https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
"and utilising the US military in furtherance of the goal is 'always an option,' the White House has said."
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/... [www.rte.ie]
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Yes it would be pretty bad and pretty stupid. Wouldn't it ?
But at some point he might just have to do it, if only because he keeps saying he will get it, and if a commercial war is not enough... Surely you don't want the mad king to lose face ? How will he keep bullying others if he lose that game of chicken and looks weak, it's a national security issue you see.
Having more reason to hate Trump and the maga morons ?
Hmm, really, I assure you, we don't lack reasons, if anything there are far too many reasons,
Threads is an Extension of Facebook and Instagram (Score:3, Interesting)
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Yep, indeed. Nobody really uses threads, they just accidentally click those dumb links they sneak into the other Meta products.
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Nice to know that I'm probably not the only person who uninstalled Threads on my phone to prevent me from accidentally opening it while trying to view something on Instagram.
The constant bad press from grok (Score:4, Informative)
From what I've heard from people I know that still use it you basically have to lock yourself down and just stick to friends and major accounts because as soon as you step into the feed it's all weird scams and Nazis.
Social media companies don't moderate that stuff out of the goodness of their hearts. Facebook famously gets a huge chunk of revenue by allowing scams to advertise directly to you and your grandparents.
The reason that they moderate that crap is because if they don't the site quickly becomes unusable and people leave. Inertia can take you a long way but there are limits.
I don't think it matters because Elon Musk has shown he is willing to pump as much money as he needs to into it because it's useful for his political purposes but outside of those purposes it's no longer even the slightest inkling of a viable business.
And if it wasn't for the government contracts being funneled in the mosques pockets coupled with his ridiculously overvalued stock and the 95 billion dollars in pay he just extracted from Tesla I don't think he'd have the money to keep Twitter afloat. The interest payments on that debt are crazy and Twitter has had one profitable quarter in its entire life and that was before Elon bought it.
I'm sure he'll keep it around for at least the next two elections though. But I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't sell it for parts after that
Anyway mark my words eventualy soon Musk (Score:1)
Will be banned everywhere because he's a nazi and he manipulated the election with the help of AI and gerrymandering maps preventing 17 millions democrat voters to vote. Somebody ran the numbers to figure out how much voters suppression there was. In 2024 17 million democrat people tried to vote and couldn't.
The Democrats could run Jesus fucking Christ and it wouldn't do any good if the Republicans just stop 17 million people from voting.. it literally doesn't matter how good a candidate they run. It doesn'
Re:The constant bad press from grok (Score:4, Insightful)
Threads is leveraging Facebook to get people to move over, which is why it's full of older people posting Facebook conspiracy theories.
Blue Sky is nice. Like Twitter used to be. Better, even. I don't really care how many people use it, as long as it stays pleasant.
I'm a moderate republican and I blame Musk (Score:2, Insightful)
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What was the name of this account?
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Pretty effective troll you've made there
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What was the name of this account?
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Now what.
No one believes that this metric has any connectio (Score:3)
What we're actually seeing is that Twitter has become pay2win so online marketers can't just start a swarm of accounts to manipulate the conversation, they actually have to pay for twitter premium on all those accounts or no one will see their posts. This makes that particular style of marketing too expensive to be a useful product.
The cost of running a fake account on threads is less than the cost of running a fake account on Twitter, so marketing companies are standing down one set of bots on Twitter in favor of standing up a cheaper set of bots on Threads.
Both run by billionaire psychopaths (Score:2)
No thanks.
This does not make any sense (Score:2)
Sorry I cannot see any possible way these two services can be 1:1 on mobile while about 20:1 in browsers, assuming both offer working mobile and browser versions. Anybody have an explanation?
What does it say about Mastodon user numbers? (Score:2)
Oh wait. There's no way to count.
(And nobody really cares because you can't spam with ads.)