Meta’s new microblogging social network Threads has surpassed 100 million users in less than 5 days on the market, It makes Twitter’s competitor the fastest growing platform in history, according to data from Quiver Quantitative.
Meta (parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger) has launched its new social network in 100 countries – but None from the European Union – last Wednesday night.
(We recommend reading data from Twitter’s competitor Threads that might worry you).
on Friday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the app has surpassed 70 million subscriptions. and this turning point: he said it far exceeded his expectations.
Topics surpassed ChatGPT recordAs the OpenAI chatbot reached 100 million in 2 months.
One of the reasons for the rapid success of this app is the easy registration process. through an Instagram account.
According to Sensor Tower data, Threads is currently the most downloaded free app in the US. on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
(You may be interested in Topics, Meta’s microblogging ‘app’ to compete with Twitter).
T at first glance.hreads looks like a copy of Twitter with post-photos, videos up to 5 minutes and post texts up to 500 characters– and you can interact with them in three ways: liking, reposting and commenting on them.
like on twitter, You can have notifications alert when a user posts.however, you cannot create lists with users.
You can’t use hashtags or tags eitherso there is no trending topic or trend.
Again, One of the advantages of Threads, which has not yet been advertised, is that there will be no limit to the number of posts users can see in Threads, one of its differentiating features. The key point between the two apps is after Musk announced (and later retracted) limitations on reading tweets to prevent “excessive data extraction and system manipulation” last weekend.
Meta shares were on the rise this morning It was around 1% before the New York stock market opened.
(Also: Topic upload and account creation: step by step on Android and iPhone).
In November last year, Twitter owner Elon Musk said: Its platform has about 260 million daily active users, and according to the Wall Street Journal, The Birdie platform tells advertisers it has a monthly active user base of 535 million.
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