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You’re a little behind the times, mate. Threads has more daily active users than X and is growing quickly vs. the latter’s cratering usage rates. Demographics
by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
You’re a little behind the times, mate.
Threads has more daily active users than X and is growing quickly vs. the latter’s cratering usage rates. Demographics trend younger, too.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoDAU for Threads is misleading, Meta seems to count impressions in Instagram where Threads sections sometimes show up. I personally know no one who uses Threads.
- lux-lux-lux 6mo ago> I personally know no one who uses Threads Real ‘I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon’ energy here.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoThat's why I didn't start off with that statement lest I be accused of anecdata which is fair. But it's true in my case. How many do you know that use Threads, especially on a regular basis?
- theshackleford 6mo ago> I personally know no one who uses Threads. I don’t know literally anyone using twitter and yet obviously people do. Perhaps what the individuals we know are doing are in fact reflective of not very much.
- bakugo 6mo agoSorry but no. I don't care what inflated numbers Meta brags about after redirecting random people from Instagram and counting that as an "active user", Threads is so utterly irrelevant that I literally forget it exists for months at a time because nobody talks about it. Even here on HN, searching for links to threads.com in comments from the past year yields a mere 53 results. For comparison, searching for xcancel.com, an unofficial frontend for x.com that allows logged out users to view replies, yields 795 results.
- lux-lux-lux 6mo agoThreads is extremely ‘normie-coded,’ I don’t think there’s much overlap with HN demographics.
- kmijyiyxfbklao 6mo agoTwitter seems to be more popular in reddit too https://old.reddit.com/domain/threads.com/top/ https://old.reddit.com/domain/threads.com/top/ https://old.reddit.com/domain/x.com/top/ https://old.reddit.com/domain/x.com/top/
- qup 6mo agoThere's not much overlap with any demographics.
- xigoi 6mo agoI still see links to X quite often. I don’t think I have ever seen a link to Threads.
- kalleboo 6mo agoI've also never seen a link to Facebook or Instagram but I wouldn't deny they're extremely popular. (last time I saw a link to Facebook was probably when Carmack was blogging there)