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Meta's Twitter rival Threads just went live and has already exceeded 10 million signups within the first seven hours, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg..

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[–] Sheltac 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not hard to achieve if they just auto-enroll everyone with a meta account.

[–] Rengoku 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wish people would stop spouting nonsense and hoax like you just did.

You need to create your damn Threads account manually.

[–] Sheltac 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Okay, let me rephrase that.

That’s easy to achieve if you use a massive billion-person platform to aggressively push Threads on everyone’s faces and make it very easy to accidentally create an account.

Better?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Indeed it is better, because that's actually the truth.

[–] imaBEES 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve actually not gotten any sort of advertising about it from Instagram/Meta, be in the the app or email or anything. I’ve only seen the tech blogs and people on twitter posting about it organically, so I wouldn't say they're aggressively pushing it, at least right now

[–] Sheltac 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] imaBEES 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do people accidentally download an app and then sign in there regularly or just this one time?

[–] Sheltac 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should see my grandma’s phone. It’s full of apps from ads.

I’m pretty sure there’s 10 million grandmas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you really believe that 10 million gramdma who were on Instagram has now opened threads account or are you just zucking with me?

They have 30 million users now btw.

[–] Sheltac 1 points 1 year ago

Will no one think of the 30 million grandmas!

[–] Bushwhack 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Except I was prompted to create an account no less than like 2-3 times in the 2-3 times I opened Instagram after it launched. It’s not automatic but it is damn near two step enrollment. I’d like to see ”active users” two weeks/months from now after the enrollment storm passes to see who actually stayed with it.

[–] Anders429 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guarantee that my great aunt probably created one because she just wanted to get the popup to go away so she could look at pictures of her grandkids. Probably doesn't even know what Threads is.

[–] Bushwhack 4 points 1 year ago

I literally had someone request to “follow me” who then immediately text me and ask — what is this thing that it just put me on.

They are definitely inflating numbers and making it hard to drop user count because deleting threads deletes your Instagram too.

You’ll only ever hear about total users now never “active” would be my guess which after a few days or weeks will be significantly less than the “10 million” that supposedly “signed up”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I didn't, I logged in and it was like "here is your new thing"

[–] _wintermute 4 points 1 year ago

Okay, then 70% are bots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you believe ANYTHING that meta says?

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

Is it something they read or something they've done? Perhaps they had to make their own Threads account.

I wouldn't be surprised if many accounts were auto-enrolled, but it may be based on activity or just a random selection to boost numbers without the massive leap of all accounts being transferred at once.

[–] glorious_albus 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be way more than 10 million?

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

I would like to confirm, but threads is not available in the EU and probably some other places as well…