Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is off to a rocket start. Mark Zuckerberg announced 30 million activated profiles, while internal data shows over 95 million posts and 190 million likes in less than one day,

  • Myrbolg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What are usual numbers on Facebook and Instagram? These numbers sound extremely high. Is the app being heavily talked about in your circles?

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      1 year ago

      IG has 1.2B accounts. So it makes sense they would have millions of Threads accounts created on day one. If Meta gets 1/3 of their IG account holders to create Threads accounts, they will equal Twitter in numbers. Twitter I believe has over 400M accounts.

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      1 year ago

      Instagram has 2 billion active users. So only 1.5% of users have activated Threads.

      These numbers aren’t extremely high, we just don’t realize the scale of the world outside our little fedi-bubble.