Threads reaches 100 million users in less than five days

ChatGPT had been the last internet phenomenon before the advent of Threads. It was first launched in November 2022, but reached the 100 million user milestone a couple of months later, according to an analysis by data firm Similarweb.

At the time, analysts at investment bank UBS said ChatGPT’s rapid growth was unprecedented for a consumer app, a milestone now surpassed by Threads.

TikTok, another of the applications that became a sensation for the platforms and the Internet, took about nine months to reach this figure after its global launch, while Instagram took more than two years, according to data from the company. app analytics, Sensor Tower.

For its part, Twitter has seen its traffic drop, according to CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince, who posted a graph showing the downward trend in Twitter users, even as the company said it went from 260 million monetizable users in November to 535 million in the last few days.