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Meta ’s thread now has more than 175 million monthly active user , Mark Zuckerbergannouncedon Wednesday . The announcement comes two day off from Threads ’ first anniversary . Zuckerberg revealed back in April thatThreads had more than 150 million monthlyactive users , up from the130 million describe in February .
togs launched on July 3 , 2023 , at a time when users were look for an alternative to X ( formerly Twitter ) after Elon Musk bring out sweeping changes to the social web .
The updated metric function comes as Muskrecently claimedthat X now reaches 600 million monthly active users , and that one-half of these exploiter use the chopine daily . It ’s deserving mentioning that Musk did n’t clarify if the number includes automated story or junk e-mail bots .
As part of today ’s announcement , Meta revealed insights into how people are using Threads . Meta say most people are coming to Threads for text rather than picture , noting that 63 % of all Threads posts are text - only . But , that does n’t entail images are n’t share on Threads , as one in four posts let in at least one look-alike .
The company say more than 50 million Tags have been create , with the top three being PhotographyThreads , BookThreads and GymThreads .
While the metric of monthly active substance abuser alone is n’t enough to full gauge how well Threads is doing , it does show that the program has a illustrious amount of substance abuser checking it out . Part of Threads ’ success is belike due to the fact that the platform is pretty desegregate and promoted within Instagram .
Since its launching , Threads has been introducing legion requested features , such as aweb app , slew topicsand anedit button . Although the platform is looking to somewhat align its experience and features with X , it is staying by from political treatment . While Meta says it wo n’t magnify news in Threads , X remain the most democratic platform for people to talk about live events likelast week ’s presidential debate .
