Threads, the fastest growing platform in history

The Meta’s new microblogging social network, Threads, surpassed 100 million users in less than 5 days on the market, according to data from Quiver Quantitative, making Twitter’s competitor the fastest growing platform in history.

(See: Twitter threats to Meta for its new social network Threads).

Meta, matrix of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, launched its new social network in 100 countries, but none in the European Union, last Wednesday night.

On Friday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the app had surpassed 70 million subscriptions, saying that this milestone: yesorbut far exceeded his expectations. Threads surpassed the ChatGPT record as the OpenAI chatbot had reached the 100 million mark in 2 months.

One of the reasons for the rapid success of this app is its easy registration process using an Instagram account.. According to Sensor Tower data, Threads is currently the most downloaded free app in the US on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

(See: With Threads, Zuckerberg puts Musk against the ‘threads’).

Naked eye, Threads looks like a copy of Twitter where there are posts, photos, videos of up to 5 minutes and post texts of up to 500 characters, and you can interact with them in three ways: liking them, reposting them, and commenting.

Just like on Twitter, you can turn on notifications to be alerted when a user posts, but you can’t create lists with users. You can’t use hashtag or tags either, so there are no trending topics or trends.

(See: How Threads works and what makes it different from Twitter).

Nevertheless, one of the advantages of Threads the thing is there will be no limit to the number of posts users can see in Threadsone of the key differentiators between the two apps after Musk last weekend announced and then removed limits on tweet reading to prevent “extreme levels of data mining and system manipulation.”

Thes Meta shares rose this morning before the opening of the New York Stock Exchange around 1%

. In November of last year, the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, said that his platform has almost 260 million daily active users and, according to According to the Wall Street Journal, the birdie platform has been telling advertisers that it has a monthly active user base of 535 million users.

(See: Threads, the new Meta app, launched with download problems.)

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