Meta’s Twitter rival Threads just went live and has already exceeded 10 million signups within the first seven hours, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg…

  • @Sheltac
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    122 years ago

    Not hard to achieve if they just auto-enroll everyone with a meta account.

    • @Rengoku
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      512 years ago

      I wish people would stop spouting nonsense and hoax like you just did.

      You need to create your damn Threads account manually.

      • @Sheltac
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        362 years ago

        Okay, let me rephrase that.

        That’s easy to achieve if you use a massive billion-person platform to aggressively push Threads on everyone’s faces and make it very easy to accidentally create an account.

        Better?

        • Bipta
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          242 years ago

          Indeed it is better, because that’s actually the truth.

        • @imaBEES
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          2 years ago

          I’ve actually not gotten any sort of advertising about it from Instagram/Meta, be in the the app or email or anything. I’ve only seen the tech blogs and people on twitter posting about it organically, so I wouldn’t say they’re aggressively pushing it, at least right now

          • @Sheltac
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            12 years ago

            Are you in Europe?

        • Reclipse
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          02 years ago

          Do people accidentally download an app and then sign in there regularly or just this one time?

          • @Sheltac
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            22 years ago

            You should see my grandma’s phone. It’s full of apps from ads.

            I’m pretty sure there’s 10 million grandmas.

            • Reclipse
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              12 years ago

              Do you really believe that 10 million gramdma who were on Instagram has now opened threads account or are you just zucking with me?

              They have 30 million users now btw.

              • @Sheltac
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                12 years ago

                Will no one think of the 30 million grandmas!

      • @Bushwhack
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        Except I was prompted to create an account no less than like 2-3 times in the 2-3 times I opened Instagram after it launched. It’s not automatic but it is damn near two step enrollment. I’d like to see ”active users” two weeks/months from now after the enrollment storm passes to see who actually stayed with it.

        • @Anders429
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          32 years ago

          I guarantee that my great aunt probably created one because she just wanted to get the popup to go away so she could look at pictures of her grandkids. Probably doesn’t even know what Threads is.

          • @Bushwhack
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            42 years ago

            I literally had someone request to “follow me” who then immediately text me and ask — what is this thing that it just put me on.

            They are definitely inflating numbers and making it hard to drop user count because deleting threads deletes your Instagram too.

            You’ll only ever hear about total users now never “active” would be my guess which after a few days or weeks will be significantly less than the “10 million” that supposedly “signed up”

      • Athena5898
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        52 years ago

        I didn’t, I logged in and it was like “here is your new thing”

      • Yewb
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        22 years ago

        Why would you believe ANYTHING that meta says?

        • Zorque
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          12 years ago

          Is it something they read or something they’ve done? Perhaps they had to make their own Threads account.

          I wouldn’t be surprised if many accounts were auto-enrolled, but it may be based on activity or just a random selection to boost numbers without the massive leap of all accounts being transferred at once.

    • @glorious_albus
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      162 years ago

      Wouldn’t that be way more than 10 million?

      • Eggyhead
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        12 years ago

        I would like to confirm, but threads is not available in the EU and probably some other places as well…