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"Users" of Threads are basically ones with Instagram account. So, having a 2B+ user base, this number means about 0.5% of the Insta users installed a new app.

Still, is that the fastest yet? Instagram took 2.5 months for reaching 1M users while it was 5 days for ChatGPT.

Somebody called it out on HN already that Twitter is going away because of Threads. Monopoly is never good, especially not in social media business. There should never be one social network to rule them all.



> Somebody called it out on HN already that Twitter is going away because of Threads

It seems severely early to say this especially when threads is such a barebones and incredibly unwieldy experience that seems to have been rushed out to capitalise on twitter's fumbles.

There's no "Following" timeline at all, you cannot mute accounts that you do not follow (only block), the video player is somehow worse than Instagram's, the UX is buggy and kind of awful, the algorithmic feed is desperately trying to focus on your particular region rather than even try to attempt your interests, things are tightly coupled with your Instagram profile and so on. This is also not even going into the nightmare that are the privacy settings which will probably prevent an EU launch for quite some time.

It feels to me that the "low" barrier of entry of simply having an Instagram account is enough to sign up for this which makes joining much more low effort since most people interested in this already had one. I'm not sure this is going to kill twitter so easily. Unless their velocity of improvements is significantly improved and they take the right feedback, this is probably going to be a flash in the pan.

Though I will say, if they somehow bring Japanese Twitter over to Threads by courting J-Pop artists, vtubers, mangaka etc, that will truly be the death knell for twitter.


If they truly integrate with the fediverse like they said than it's great.


> So, having a 2B+ user base

If my impression of Instagram is representative then 80% of the 2B+ user base is bots.

The worst case here is Meta start automatically forcing Threads down Instagram user's throats if they don't get the levels of signup their revenue forecasts demand. That would be annoying, Twitter is a cesspool and I think Threads has the potential to be the the detritus of that.


People who Are heavy Twitter users dont associate with insta and vice versa. It's a hard sell. Let's see what happens. But would be hard to believe meta can pull it off


And without any* users from the EU either.


I'm assuming this is due to a planned staged roll out vs the entirety of the EU got together and agreed no more products from meta.



I'm probably going to get the app just to annoy OpenAI once this takes their crown.




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