Meta’s Threads surpasses 100 million users in 5 days of launch, breaks ChatGPT record of fastest sign ups

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta recently launched Threads, the social media app via Instagram, to take on Elon Musk’s Twitter. While Twitter is filing a suit against Meta for the similar app, Threads has caught on with users. Within a week of launch, more than 100 million users have signed up to Threads via the Android and iOS apps. Threads was launched on July 5, 2023, in 100 countries, including the UK, US, India, and others. The has now beaten the record of fast sign-ups by Open AI's ChatGPT app.

Threads require a sign-up through the Instagram app, wherein a user's name and followers are imported. This has worked in Meta’s favour, as most of the Instagram users have logged in to Threads on the same day of its launch. In the first two hours of launch on July 5, Threads garnered 2 million users and soon climbed to 5 million, 10 million, 30 million, 50 million, and then 70 million users. As of July 10, 2023, Threads has more than 100 million users and still growing. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Threads, saying, «Threads reached 100 million sign-ups over the weekend. That's mostly organic demand and we haven't even turned on many promotions yet. Can't believe it's only been 5 days!”

https://www.threads.net/t/CuhOXGmr74R/ People who were unhappy with Twitter’s new policies post the takeover by Elon Musk have promptly jumped on to Threads, and some are also using similar apps like Mastodon and Bluesky. Threads has not been launched in mainland Europe because of EU compliance and data privacy legislation.

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