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Threads already has over 95 million posts, 30 million signups (www.theverge.com)
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Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is off to a rocket start. Mark Zuckerberg announced 30 million activated profiles, while internal data shows over 95 million posts and 190 million likes in less than one day,

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As much as I dislike all the recent twitter changes, this gives Meta even more of a monopoly on social media networks

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

More than half of my personal follows on Twitter are enthusiastically jumping over. I don't spend a lot of time on Twitter these days, so maybe I hadn't realized it was bad enough to send people running happily into the arms of Meta.

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

It’s slowly breaking on a technical level. Not as fast as some people predicted, but it’s obvious to everyone now.