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Meta's Threads has had its daily users down 20% since Saturday and user time spent on the platform is down 50% ~ CNBC (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] rtxn 8 points 1 year ago

I don't even think their early growth numbers were real. Threads is an offshoot of Instagram, and there have been reports of accounts appearing spontaneously. It's entirely possible that they simply populated the service using existing Instagram accounts.