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Let's see, FB has about 2 billion daily actives, Insta has like 3 to 4 billion? Assume half of them are sleeping there should still be a couple billion Meta use

Let's see, FB has about 2 billion daily actives, Insta has like 3 to 4 billion? Assume half of them are sleeping there should still be a couple billion Meta user online about now and only 2 million of them so far have downloaded it? We got 8 million downloads (not updates, full downloads) in one day back in the desktop era when there were only a couple billion people online in total. This feels pretty weak to me. I wonder if that's intentional, get the enthusiasts on first, for free, as it were, then turn on the firehose later on to get the "olds" over from FB and the "influencers" over from Insta?

asadotzler 3y ago
Oops, forgot to say who "we" is there. I'm talking about our Firefox Guinness record download day back in 2008-ish.
duped 3y ago
People haven't written the bots yet
joegahona 3y ago
Are there large banners or advertisements on Instagram or Facebook pushing people to use Threads? (I’m on neither.) A few more things that might affect signup numbers: Threads requires an app to use, and it’s not available in the EU yet. Also the announced go-live was tomorrow.
- jcpst 3y ago
  It doesn’t require an app to check it out. I clicked on the HN link and was able to navigate through the web app.
chimeracoder 3y ago
> Let's see, FB has about 2 billion daily actives, Insta has like 3 to 4 billion? I agree that 2M "signups" is not actually impressive, but I'm not sure where you're getting the figure of 3-4 billion DAUs for Instagram. Everything I'm seeing is significantly lower than that.
- asadotzler 3y ago
  Yeah. That was wildly off. ChatGPT strikes again, or rather my ability to get chatGPT to give me useful information strikes again. Seems like closer to 1 billion or less?
  - asadotzler 3y ago
    I wonder if I was getting all Meta users or something. Well, doesn't matter too much in the end. FB has billions of users and a few million upsold to the new free app isn't terribly impressive to me.
  - ahahahahah 3y ago
    Yeah, please don't just parrot chatgpt bullshit.
Panini_Jones 3y ago
Instagram does not have 3/4 billion daily active users. It's about 500 million daily active users, 2 billion monthly [0]. [0] - https://backlinko.com/instagram-users https://backlinko.com/instagram-users

asadotzler 3y ago

Oops, forgot to say who "we" is there. I'm talking about our Firefox Guinness record download day back in 2008-ish.

duped 3y ago

People haven't written the bots yet

joegahona 3y ago

Are there large banners or advertisements on Instagram or Facebook pushing people to use Threads? (I’m on neither.) A few more things that might affect signup numbers: Threads requires an app to use, and it’s not available in the EU yet. Also the announced go-live was tomorrow.

jcpst 3y ago
It doesn’t require an app to check it out. I clicked on the HN link and was able to navigate through the web app.

chimeracoder 3y ago

> Let's see, FB has about 2 billion daily actives, Insta has like 3 to 4 billion? I agree that 2M "signups" is not actually impressive, but I'm not sure where you're getting the figure of 3-4 billion DAUs for Instagram. Everything I'm seeing is significantly lower than that.

asadotzler 3y ago
Yeah. That was wildly off. ChatGPT strikes again, or rather my ability to get chatGPT to give me useful information strikes again. Seems like closer to 1 billion or less?
- asadotzler 3y ago
  I wonder if I was getting all Meta users or something. Well, doesn't matter too much in the end. FB has billions of users and a few million upsold to the new free app isn't terribly impressive to me.
- ahahahahah 3y ago
  Yeah, please don't just parrot chatgpt bullshit.

Panini_Jones 3y ago

Instagram does not have 3/4 billion daily active users. It's about 500 million daily active users, 2 billion monthly [0]. [0] - https://backlinko.com/instagram-users https://backlinko.com/instagram-users