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Project 92: Internal Meta document reveals the strategy for Threads: The competition between Threads and X (formerly Twitter) is made clear by the revelations in ...
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Key FactsThreads: Early User Surge, Persistent Twitter Habits
Jul 27, 2023 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: qz.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: qz.com
- Threads launched on July 5 and reached 100 million registered users five days later.
- According to SimilarWeb, Threads had 49 million active Android users on July 7, versus fewer than 24 million on July 14.
- Meta facilitates sign-up through existing Instagram credentials and counts 3.88 billion monthly users across its services.
- Joseph Bayer says ingrained Twitter habits and limited engagement make a complete move to Threads difficult.
“It’s actually a lot easier to emulate physical infrastructure than cultural infrastructure,” Maddox told Quartz. “Many habitually online users stay on Twitter for the jokes, the drama, the stories, and the information. In other words, people may follow new app features in the short term, but they’ll follow culture and community in the long term.”— Jessica Maddox, assistant professor at University of Alabama’s journalism and creative media department, told Quartz
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