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…

  • AnonTwo
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    62 years ago

    Didn’t they basically give it to everyone who has instagram? That would make the numbers inherently padded

    • @imaBEES@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      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.

  • Tigbitties
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    42 years ago

    Yeah, let’s check back in a month and see if people are using it.

    • Enttropy
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      12 years ago

      Follows the Reddit flock to join Lemmy. *

      Ughh… People are such sheep.

      • @errer@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        It was a considered decision to come here, unlike the 30 million people who mindlessly joined threads. So yeah, there’s a difference.

        • @Stelus42@lemmy.ca
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          02 years ago

          “I can read the minds of millions, nobody joining threads ever considered their decision!”

          • @errer@lemmy.world
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            02 years ago

            Not hard to characterize the thoughts of morons. Apparently you’re too dumb to do the same.

    • @Rengoku@lemmy.world
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      42 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@lemmy.world
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        32 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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          32 years ago

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

        • 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@lemmy.world
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            12 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.

      • Yewb
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        12 years ago

        Why would you believe ANYTHING that meta says?

      • @Bushwhack@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        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@lemmy.world
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          02 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@lemmy.world
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            22 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”