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Dead on delivery? That’s pretty dramatic (and incorrect). 100M users in 5 days and it’s quite active today - very far from dead on delivery.

okokwhatever 3y ago
mostly Ig users who got left the platform after a couple of days... quite impresive.
glimshe 3y ago
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- realprimoh 3y ago
  Not sure how that correlates with usage. Your personal experience isn’t a generalizable experience. Nobody in my circle uses Snapchat, yet it’s worth $27B… If anything, this might mean your circle is quite small.
  - glimshe 3y ago
    I have a large circle of friends. Many use Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter/X, TikTok, YouTube Premium, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal... Not ONE usage of Threads.
wayfinder 3y ago
Instagram has like 2 billion users and I got spammed the shit out of to open a Threads account. That’s like saying it’s impressive I made a million dollar company after my dad gave me 2 billion.
- realprimoh 3y ago
  That’s cool and all, but I never commented on if it was impressive or not. Just was pointing out user numbers and that the average Hacker News commenter’s bubble is not representative of how most of the world uses social media.
- threeseed 3y ago
  Threads reached 100M users well before they turned on Instagram promotions. And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying.
  - fatnoah 3y ago
    The reason threads is considered a success at Meta is because it'd be a marketing failure otherwise. In days past, my team there owned a product that hit over 100M MAU, and it wasn't attention-worthy in any way. It eventually got shutdown and the team disbanded.
    - sangnoir 3y ago
      > In days past, my team there owned a product that hit over 100M MAU, and it wasn't attention-worthy in any way This statement is meaningless without knowing what the product, revenue and its Total Addressable Market are. 100M MAU out of 1.5B TAM is not attention-worthy. Twitter at it's peak had 550M MAU, so Threads doing close to 20% of that in less than a year is impressive.
  - nine_zeros 3y ago
    > And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying. The current MAU is calculated by counting the users who see threads on instagram and accidentally click on it - which is A LOT.
  - edgyquant 3y ago
    I don’t about instagram, but it was all over the internet. It was Bloomberg and the economist as a twitter killer and was definitely on the front page here as well. It was advertised as only needing an instagram account and as an extension of that
_fat_santa 3y ago
They got 100M users to sign-up which ins't surprising because they advertised the crap out of it in Instagram, which has ~2B users. I would still consider Threads dead because you don't hear about it. You often see screenshots of tweets or links to tweets on here and other sites, this tells me that people are actively using Twitter/X and engaging with it. But as for threads? I haven't seen a single screenshot or link to Threads outside of ads you get on Instagram about it. What I see is that Threads is on life support and the life support machine is Instagram, if not got IG, Threads would be 100% DOA.
- redserk 3y ago
  The tech sphere is far from the only group of people using social media.

okokwhatever 3y ago

mostly Ig users who got left the platform after a couple of days... quite impresive.

glimshe 3y ago

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realprimoh 3y ago
Not sure how that correlates with usage. Your personal experience isn’t a generalizable experience. Nobody in my circle uses Snapchat, yet it’s worth $27B… If anything, this might mean your circle is quite small.
- glimshe 3y ago
  I have a large circle of friends. Many use Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter/X, TikTok, YouTube Premium, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal... Not ONE usage of Threads.

wayfinder 3y ago

Instagram has like 2 billion users and I got spammed the shit out of to open a Threads account. That’s like saying it’s impressive I made a million dollar company after my dad gave me 2 billion.

realprimoh 3y ago
That’s cool and all, but I never commented on if it was impressive or not. Just was pointing out user numbers and that the average Hacker News commenter’s bubble is not representative of how most of the world uses social media.
threeseed 3y ago
Threads reached 100M users well before they turned on Instagram promotions. And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying.
- fatnoah 3y ago
  The reason threads is considered a success at Meta is because it'd be a marketing failure otherwise. In days past, my team there owned a product that hit over 100M MAU, and it wasn't attention-worthy in any way. It eventually got shutdown and the team disbanded.
  - sangnoir 3y ago
    > In days past, my team there owned a product that hit over 100M MAU, and it wasn't attention-worthy in any way This statement is meaningless without knowing what the product, revenue and its Total Addressable Market are. 100M MAU out of 1.5B TAM is not attention-worthy. Twitter at it's peak had 550M MAU, so Threads doing close to 20% of that in less than a year is impressive.
- nine_zeros 3y ago
  > And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying. The current MAU is calculated by counting the users who see threads on instagram and accidentally click on it - which is A LOT.
- edgyquant 3y ago
  I don’t about instagram, but it was all over the internet. It was Bloomberg and the economist as a twitter killer and was definitely on the front page here as well. It was advertised as only needing an instagram account and as an extension of that

_fat_santa 3y ago

They got 100M users to sign-up which ins't surprising because they advertised the crap out of it in Instagram, which has ~2B users. I would still consider Threads dead because you don't hear about it. You often see screenshots of tweets or links to tweets on here and other sites, this tells me that people are actively using Twitter/X and engaging with it. But as for threads? I haven't seen a single screenshot or link to Threads outside of ads you get on Instagram about it. What I see is that Threads is on life support and the life support machine is Instagram, if not got IG, Threads would be 100% DOA.

redserk 3y ago
The tech sphere is far from the only group of people using social media.