Posted on 07/06/2023 7:14:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Two hours after pressing the launch button on Wednesday on Threads, Instagram’s new app for real-time, public conversations, Mark Zuckerberg posted that more than two million people had downloaded his latest creation.
That was just the beginning.
Another two hours later, five million people had downloaded Threads. By the time Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, went to bed on Wednesday night, the number of downloads had soared to 10 million. When he woke on Thursday morning, the app had been downloaded more than 30 million times, he said.
In less than a day, Threads — which is aimed as a rival to Twitter — appears to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever. It easily outstripped ChatGPT, the chatbot, which was downloaded one million times within its first five days, according to OpenAI, ChatGPT’s maker. And Threads is on a pace to exceed 100 million users within two months, a feat achieved only by ChatGPT, according to the analytics firm Similarweb.
Some of Twitter’s most-followed users — such as Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Gates, Shakira and Oprah Winfrey — immediately joined Threads and began posting. The atmosphere was celebratory, with users writing welcome messages and expressing eagerness to read one another’s posts. At one point, the new app was so inundated with users that it appeared unstable.
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Says the leftist nytimes
“Threads” is already censoring the Hunter story. Good luck with that app.
I won’t be signing up
Some people can’t wait to become full fledged members of the new world order.
Every user of this app loves the chains of servitude and licks the hand of zuckerberg. No thanks.
Downloading it is one thing, sticking to it is a whole another... of course people are all downloading it just to see what its about. Time will tell if it will go the way of all the other leftist apps that hopped to replace Twitter.
The three-letter agencies rejoice! “Threads” doubles the amount of spying on its users above what Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. do.
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Clicked on link ready to take story seriously...until I noticed its from propaganda rag.
Wasn’t “Threads” a movie about nuclear war? Go ahead...look it up.
Please download our app, so we can censor you, track you, and sell your personal data.
It made The Day After look like a comedy.
I’ll pass.
I heard they wasted no time in censoring conservative views
Amazing film.
FakeWorldMSM has given Zuck at least a billion or two in promotion since he first announced it was coming.
no problem that Zuck totally monopolises social media and is known to follow FBI orders to censor, etc. that’s just fine.
The maestros of the echo chamber.
Twitter still requiring log in to view tweets?
If people on the Left want to use Threads, that's fine. But I think they'll get bored after a while because the party is over at Twitter. Not sure how Zuck is going to appeal to the Right now because we're just going to boycott his product.
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