It's a conspiracy just in the sense that they are seemingly counting these towards their growth numbers. If they're saying they have 20 million accounts, but they created 3/4 of them as placeholders, then no...they have 5 million accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I really think they are not, those are all account from people who have actively signed up. Threads really is that much bigger than Mastodon, and it's not that surprising.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Presumably they would have created ~2 Billion Threads accounts since there are ~2B Instagram users. Even if it was just the US there are approximately ~115M Instagram account.

So no, the 70M user number would just be the number to actually try Threads.

[–] dreamfall 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google Play store alone has 10 mil+ downloads, so it's easy to assume Apple has roughly the same...so that's 20 million users right there...

[–] Cabrio 1 points 1 year ago

Downloads aren't equal to individual users, but you knew that because you're disingenuous, not stupid, right?