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Threads gained 10 million new users in seven hours

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Threads gained 10 million new users in seven hours | Engadget

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..

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Not hard to achieve if they just auto-enroll everyone with a meta account.
- I wish people would stop spouting nonsense and hoax like you just did.
  You need to create your damn Threads account manually.
  
  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?
  
  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.
  
  I didn't, I logged in and it was like "here is your new thing"
  
  Why would you believe ANYTHING that meta says?
  
  Okay, then 70% are bots.
- Wouldn't that be way more than 10 million?
  
  I would like to confirm, but threads is not available in the EU and probably some other places as well…
Didn't they basically give it to everyone who has instagram? That would make the numbers inherently padded
- While it uses your instagram account, it's a separate app and you have to actually go through sign up to be on it. So while there is less of a hurdle, it’s definitely not anyone on instagram, only if you’ve actively signed up for it.
Not shocked with how Twitter has been lately. Also it feels more or less like Twitter, if immature so far.
People are such sheep
- Follows the Reddit flock to join Lemmy.
  Ughh… People are such sheep.
  
  It was a considered decision to come here, unlike the 30 million people who mindlessly joined threads. So yeah, there’s a difference.
- What, for looking at a twitter alternative after it's been performing so poorly the past few days? How is that being a sheep?
  
  No I guess going from one company to another one not minding the underlying systemic problems is meant here
Zuck claims it's up to 30 million now
- Just to put it in perspective, there are about 15 million users total in the entire Fediverse, of which 9 million are on Mastodon.
- I'm sure most are real, but am curious as to how many bots there are in the amount.
  
  This is my question
- He also claimed he invited legs for VR lol
  
  "Hello legs, would you like some VR?"
I wonder how many might be bot accounts?
- Can you pass the copium when you’re done?
- it's IG, the answer is probably "a lot"
Yeah, let's check back in a month and see if people are using it.
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Another piece of turd in Meta's toilet bowl.

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