[Philip-J-Fry]

Threads is an MVP to get people who are fed up with Twitter. It works and they're committed to improving it.

I don't think Threads will have the same fate as other Facebook/Meta products simply because the sign up process is so painless. If you use Instagram (which like 1bn+ people do) then signing up just means downloading the app and pressing a couple of buttons. So barrier of entry is extremely low and Instagram is still popular with young people.

Facebook was forgotten by young people already in 2012, so Facebook Poke was not really going to compete. I don't think you can draw parallels there.

I'm excited to see if they can innovate in the space. I don't really see Zuckerberg as a bad figure.

[pasttense01]

Actually there are currently over 2.35 billion monthly active Instagram users. Instagram achieved the 2 billion mark in the 3rd quarter of 2021, and it is estimated to reach over 2.5 billion MAUs by the end of 2023.

https://www.demandsage.com/instagram-statistics/

[baq]

I don’t have an instagram account and don’t plan on having one. My Facebook account is basically dormant. Threads would be interesting in any way at all if you could use a WhatsApp account for it. Maybe.

[davedx]

Source that 1B people use Instagram?

[fhhhhssyyeyii]

Two billion as of 10/22

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-26/meta-s-in...

[davedx]

Holy crap.