In just five days, the Twitter clone integrated into Instagram, Threads, has managed to reach a record 100 million registered users since its launch last Wednesday.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, reported that the app attracted 2 million users in two hours, 5 million users in four hours, and 10 million registered users in just seven hours. The next morning, Zuckerberg mentioned that more than 30 million people had signed up to test the new app.
Until now, OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot had the merit of being one of the fastest growing products, reaching 10 million daily users in 40 days and 100 million monthly users in almost two months. Threads has surpassed those 100 million active users in five days. It took Instagram two and a half years to reach the figure and TikTok nine months.
With the launch boom, many people are testing Meta’s new social platform, but features such as support for ActivityPub, the decentralized network protocol on which ‘Fediverso’ is based and which will allow its users to intercommunicate, remain to be integrated. with those of Mastodon or Tumblr, for example.
Also, the app doesn’t yet have support for post search, direct messages, hashtags, or a ‘following’ feed.
Threads cannot be used in Europe, as it does not comply with European consumer privacy protection laws, which are much stricter than American ones.
