Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week

Threads, the societal media app aimed astatine rivalling Twitter, has signed up much than 100 cardinal users successful little than 5 days, according to caller data.

It means Threads, launched by Instagram-owner Meta, has bushed a grounds acceptable by Open AI's ChatGPT app.

Threads went unrecorded connected Apple and Android app stores successful 100 countries past Wednesday.

It not disposable successful Europe owed to the EU's information privateness legislation.

Mark Zuckerberg, main enforcement of Meta, which besides owns Facebook, said the app had 10 cardinal users wrong the archetypal 7 hours of motorboat and much than 30 cardinal by Thursday morning.

Around 24 hours later, that fig had much than doubled.

At 100 million, according to figures from information level Quiver Quantitative, Threads' basal stands astatine little than a 3rd of the 350 cardinal regular users that Twitter is believed to have.

Some Twitter users person go disenchanted since billionaire Elon Musk took over. Thousands of jobs person been chopped nether his ownership and helium has announced a fig of changes to assistance make gross astatine Twitter.

Other rivals person emerged similar Mastodon and Bluesky but person struggled without an existing idiosyncratic base. Threads has capitalised connected being linked to Instagram which has much than 1 cardinal accounts.