But there's no need to do that. If you already have Instagram and your happy with it, there's nothing extra you need to worry about just because there's a shadow account pre set up for you in Threads.

It's a shady way for them to push their new service, but it's not like they suddenly have any more info on you than they already had.

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[–] sauerkraus 13 points 2 years ago

It’s literally the same account you already have.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Is this not basically what google and Microsoft do with their stuff, minus the subscribe even though they aren't there yet bit? It's your meta account, regardless if you're using that particular feature?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So it's made of mostly fake accounts from Instagram. That has to be the shadiest thing I've seen from a social media app. Just making "shadow" accounts from other social media apps to artificially boost it's analytics.

[–] Gerp 7 points 2 years ago

I especially noticed this as someone that lives in the EU and decided to check it out using a VPN. 90% of my friends are also from inside the EU and can't download the app but they were all in my list of suggested people.

[–] vera 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Threads isn't "successful", they just happen to own the social graph. Why can't people see this?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

In other news, Facebook Messenger somehow knows I have a Facebook account!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Yet another example of meta being extra fucking creepy

[–] kioshi 7 points 2 years ago

I don't see anybody posting there after the first day, save for brand and meme pages

[–] Kefass 7 points 2 years ago

Copy, paste, succes

[–] QubaXR 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this a reported news, or a speculation? Really curious, before I start going around, repeating it.

[–] capital 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Been seeing that a lot around here. Pics or it didn't happen.

People are all too eager to believe stuff if it feeds into their preconceived ideas about these companies.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As horrible as this obviously is, it's also quite clever.

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[–] quazar 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i knew accounts were being automatically created and thats why i don't believe the numbers

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