Threads Grew By a Bluesky This Month, Now Has Over 275 Million Users (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/16/1911231/threads-grew-by-a-bluesky-this-month-now-has-over-275-million-users
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24296490/meta-threads-15-million-adam-mosseri-bluesky
> Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger. In a post on Thursday, Mosseri said that Threads has gotten " [2]more than 15 million signups in November alone ," seemingly trying to throw some cold water over Bluesky crossing 15 million users total on Wednesday .
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> Mosseri also reiterated that the platform has been getting more than a million signups per day — a stat that CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed [3]during last month's earnings call — and noted that the platform has been seeing that volume of signups for "going on three months."
As November began, Mosseri posted that Threads [4]had 275 million monthly active users ....
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24296490/meta-threads-15-million-adam-mosseri-bluesky
[2] https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/DCWz7LSvA36?xmt=AQGz7FdXZylT7TzCBHKUZQaewk9QgRE_cyAou_iNmhQ49w
[3] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/30/24284013/threads-hits-275-million-users
[4] https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/DB6zNlQSsJN
How many of those are bots? (Score:3)
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Probably about the same as Facebook (Score:2, Insightful)
Which is about 4 to 5%. Twitter on the other hand by all accounts is somewhere between 20 and 30%. The margin is wide because Twitter no longer allows much research to be done since it wouldn't be favorable to them. It's probably closer to 30% though. Spend a few moments on Twitter and your feed will be instantly filled with pussy pics in bio posts and videos of people being killed.
It's probably just as well it's mostly bots now. A bunch of the advertisers are coming back so they can funnel bribes into
Re: (Score:2)
Bigger question is how many are active. Signing up for threads from Instagram is a trivial process, but I doubt it's getting anywhere near the same activity
Meta[stasize] is.... (Score:2)
.... metastasizing!
Growing by clickbait (Score:2)
I've seen so many clickbait ads for threads. "I'm about to tell you something really interesting, you're not going to want to miss this information, it's really the best, but I can't really tell you the secret in the amount of space that's available here. If you really want to know the secret, the best way is to...[Read more?] of course, if you click read more, you're asked to install a different app than whatever one you're using and seeing the enticing clickbait on.
Anybody who clicks on the clickbait and
Instagram makes it hard to avoid Threads (Score:3)
Instagram is constantly trying to trick folks into signing up for Threads. So might have more users, i suspect its all barely used accounts. Prob doesnt matter to them since more user count means better Meta stock price.
How many Olympic sized swimming pools is that (Score:2)
Stacked on top of each other?
Bluesky the Clone (Score:1)
I accessed Bluesky out of curiosity and the page I landed on was... well, a Twitter / X clone.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm on threads (Score:4, Insightful)
and its a shit hole full of engagement baiting posts of the same 100 questions all day every fucking day. I mostly post my photography and only 0 engagement tried out Bluesky for two days and engagement just for photos and not text is 30X that of Threads.
When I singed up for Threads several months back engagement was similar to Bluesky but had to constantly mute posts to not have political shit creep in all day long. I annoying enough that I deleted my account. Waited some time to restart it but now there's literally 0 engagement unless you bait.
Also Bluesky not Elon or Mark so that's a bonus.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
Not quite right, he's one of those nefarious billionaires Asshole warned the American people about that were trying to "steal" American democracy. If he were telling the truth, a foreign concept for him, he'd have said those nefarious billionaires were trying to buy American democracy: Elmo, Thiel, Ellison, and that Miriam Adelson. Even a right wingnut rag has a list:
[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/l... [forbes.com]
but I wouldn't trust that list is inclusive, it does not contain Elmo or Thiel.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/leokamin/2024/08/14/here-are-trumps-top-billionaire-donors/