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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 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!