With 100 million users and counting, is Threads is on course to finish off Twitter?Meta wants its new rival to be a friendly, news-free space. But with missing features, it might not leave Elon Musk’s platform in the dust quite yet.
It feels as if the death of Twitter has been greatly exaggerated since Elon Musk took ownership of the company. Indeed, it’s not Musk, but Meta’s launch of Threads – which has 100 million-plus users in a matter of days – that could be the biggest threat to Twitter at present. Threads, though, appears to be a very different social media beast. For starters, Meta’s response to Twitter is accessed through your Instagram account, meaning you can automatically follow the accounts you already follow on Instagram. And though it looks quite similar to Twitter, with short text-based posts, it differs in key ways.
Rambler wrote (edited )
Threads got a jump start on it's userbase by making it incredibly simple for current Instagram (and maybe Facebook?) users from signing up to the platform. They already have your data, so you don't need to 'create an account'. It's more of an opt-in, from what I understand. So with that in mind, it's incredibly hassle-free to join which likely is the reason for such high numbers, if they are to be believed to begin with.
It's unlikely to be a Twitter killer in my opinion, but time will tell.
What I find the most interesting when reading comments on the web on places like reddit is the amount of people who dislike Musk so much that they'll support Zuckerberg blindly. Say what you want about Musk but he has at least been part of advancing the automobile, space and telecom industries. Zuck probably still thinks people are "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data.
(Posted from my Starlink connection. Thanks Musk!)