Threads Usage Overtakes X On Mobile (techcrunch.com)
- Reference: 0180616766
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/2240209/threads-usage-overtakes-x-on-mobile
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/
> Similarweb's data shows that Threads had 141.5 million daily active users on iOS and Android as of January 7, 2026, after months of growth, while X has 125 million daily active users on mobile devices. This appears to be the result of longer-term trends, rather than a reaction to the recent X controversies [...]. Instead, Threads' boost in daily mobile usage may be driven by other factors, including cross-promotions from Meta's larger social apps like Facebook and Instagram (where Threads is regularly advertised to existing users), its focus on creators, and the rapid rollout of new features.
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> Over the past year, Threads has added features like interest-based communities, better filters, DMs, long-form text, disappearing posts, and has recently been spotted testing games. Combined, the daily active user increases suggest that more people are using Threads on mobile as a more regular habit.
Further reading: [2]Threads Now Has More Than 400 Million Monthly Active Users
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/12/2018257/threads-now-has-more-than-400-million-monthly-active-users
Re:The most relevant facts still show X dominates. (Score:4, Insightful)
You mean the same liberal media who constantly called out Biden for being old while not saying a peep about cheeto being even older right now? Or cheeto invading Greenland because he was snubbed for a peace prize?
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When did the mainstream media call Biden old, or call into question his mental capacities?
Oh, that's right, immediately after that June debate with Trump (conveniently pushed for by the Democrats, a June debate that has never happened before), called into question Biden's aptitude conveniently when it was expedient for the Democrats to push him out with enough time to run Kamala through the circus, pretend she legitimately got her billion in donations from "stomping the grounds", right?
You mean that same un
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Also, only the most simpleminded among us would actually believe Trump would have a military incursion into Greenland.
Those, and people like you that WANT to believe it for their own purposes of having more reason to hate their opposition.
Threads is an Extension of Facebook and Instagram (Score:1)
Threads traffic is generated through constant popups in Facebook and Instagram. I'd guess the equivalent amount of advertising for a competitor to get an equal amount of free ad space on Facebook and Instagram would easily exceed $500B per year, likely much much more.
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Yep, indeed. Nobody really uses threads, they just accidentally click those dumb links they sneak into the other Meta products.
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Nice to know that I'm probably not the only person who uninstalled Threads on my phone to prevent me from accidentally opening it while trying to view something on Instagram.
The constant bad press from grok (Score:2, Informative)
Isn't helping any. As far as I know they still haven't done anything about grok being used to create csam.
From what I've heard from people I know that still use it you basically have to lock yourself down and just stick to friends and major accounts because as soon as you step into the feed it's all weird scams and Nazis.
Social media companies don't moderate that stuff out of the goodness of their hearts. Facebook famously gets a huge chunk of revenue by allowing scams to advertise directly to you a
I'm a moderate republican and I blame Musk (Score:1)
I've been using Twitter extensively since Musk took over, and collected 3000 followers before they permabanned my first account for its first DMCA violation (I posted the "20 Days In Mariupol" documentary which was freely available on Youtube). No recourse, no nothing, Elon replaced Twitter staff with groypers who love Stalin and Putin, that's one explanation. I rebuilt the account from scratch and got to 2600 followers. Suffice to say I was engaged actively enough to observe what was going on. There used
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I've been using Twitter extensively since Musk took over, and collected 3000 followers before they permabanned my first account for its first DMCA violation ..
What was the name of this account?
> .. Elon replaced Twitter staff with groypers who love Stalin and Putin, that's one explanation.
Pretty effective troll you've made there ;)
No one believes that this metric has any connectio (Score:2)
No one believes that this metric has any connection to the reality. As a user of both platforms, it's obvious that Twitter clearly has a much larger, active user-base than threads. If the metrics are telling us something different then they're fake.
What we're actually seeing is that Twitter has become pay2win so online marketers can't just start a swarm of accounts to manipulate the conversation, they actually have to pay for twitter premium on all those accounts or no one will see their posts. This makes
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I mean... who do you blame for letting the competition get a one up on you other than the leader of a company? Please remove your head from Musk's arse.
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Somewhat surprising to me. I'd have expected threads to first take web, then mobile. X is so engrained in government messaging and I'd expect that to be consumed more on mobile. Once "official" sources, and I'm mainly looking at you democratic states/cities who should know better, stop using X is their primary medium, X is done amongst mainstream. R gov's I give a break to. They are supporting their own. Much like Fox news.