Meta’s text-sharing social networking site
Threads has surpassed 100 million daily active users. This is the first time Meta has made such user numbers public.
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has more than 100 million daily active users – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/16/24322947/mark-zuckerberg-meta-threads-100-million-daily-active-users
Threads is a social networking service that launched on Thursday, July 6, 2023, and unlike other social networking services such as Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, it focuses primarily on sharing text.
According to Meta CEO Zuckerberg’s post, Threads’ momentum continues to grow, with more than 300 million monthly active users and more than 100 million daily active users as of December 17, 2024. Technology media The Verge points out that ‘this is the first time Meta has released its daily active user numbers.’
‘We’re incredibly grateful to this rapidly growing community,’ said Adam Mosseri, head of Threads. ‘Together we’re building something special, and next year we’re focused on making it even better.’
X (formerly Twitter) is a text-sharing social networking site with a large number of users , but it has been reported that the number of users has decreased since the US presidential election in November 2024 due to the fact that it is owned by Elon Musk, who openly supports Donald Trump, and Musk’s ‘no censorship’ stance has made it easier for extreme content to be displayed. On the other hand, the number of users has increased on competing social networking sites such as Bluesky, and it has been reported that the number of users on Threads increased by 35 million in November 2024 alone.
Bluesky has the advantage that users can choose what they want to see, which is different from X, which displays ‘recommendations’ and tries to show a large number of posts. Threads also initially focused on displaying recommendations, but in November 2024, it added a feature that allows users to select the topics they want to see, recreating the environment so that users can choose what they want to see. The financial newspaper Financial Times points out that ‘there is speculation that they are trying to curb the rise of Bluesky.’
In addition, Bluesky has a ‘total number of users’ of approximately 25 million , while Threads has a ‘daily active user count’ of 100 million, so there is a significant difference in the number of users of the two services.
Also, unlike X, Threads has introduced a ‘Fediverse Share’ feature that allows users to simultaneously post posts on Threads to other decentralized social networking platforms such as Mastodon and Misskey, and is actively following the trend of decentralized social networking. Threads is working on becoming compatible with the protocol ‘ ActivityPub ‘ used in the Fediverse.
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