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Meta officially launches Twitter rival Threads. 10 million have joined already (edition.cnn.com)
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Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

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[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure there are far more than 10 million people with Instagram accounts. There's probably a lot more than that in the US alone.

[–] thablkafrodite@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

yeah my insta was not set up for threads when i opened the app. i had to purposefully consent to linking the two accounts. Seems to me like its 10 mil actual users.

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wasn’t there a statement recently that meta wasn’t doing threads in some regions? Specifically the EU?

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but it's not the case that all but 10 million of Instagram's users are from the EU...

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we know if it's only EU that is excluded from Threads?

[–] Ferk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the US alone, Instagram has over 150 million users. Even if the only country accessing it was the US, the number should be much higher than 10 mill, were they automatically adding the users.

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/instagram-users-by-country