Meta’s Twitter rival Threads just went live and has already exceeded 10 million signups within the first seven hours, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg…

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Okay, let me rephrase that.

That’s easy to achieve if you use a massive billion-person platform to aggressively push Threads on everyone’s faces and make it very easy to accidentally create an account.

Better?

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Indeed it is better, because that’s actually the truth.

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I’ve actually not gotten any sort of advertising about it from Instagram/Meta, be in the the app or email or anything. I’ve only seen the tech blogs and people on twitter posting about it organically

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Are you in Europe?

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Nope, USA

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Do people accidentally download an app and then sign in there regularly or just this one time?

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You should see my grandma’s phone. It’s full of apps from ads.

I’m pretty sure there’s 10 million grandmas.

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Do you really believe that 10 million gramdma who were on Instagram has now opened threads account or are you just zucking with me?

They have 30 million users now btw.

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