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Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

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[–] Fosheze 382 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Fuck Meta and all but this isn't news. Meta litterally said straight up that they would be doing this before threads ever launched. If you have an instagram account then that is also your threads account. This isn't some conspiracy it's exactly what they told everyone they were doing. It's no diferent than linked accounts for google services.

[–] MeetInPotatoes -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] 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?

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