Meta Platforms Inc.'s META latest app Threads has now become the fastest app to cross the 1 million users mark, beating ChatGPT's record. While ChatGPT took five days to cross 1 million users, Meta's Threads reached the milestone in just one hour. There's more – according to Mark Zuckerberg, Threads crossed 10 million users in seven hours.
What Happened: Meta's Threads app is off to a blistering start, becoming the fastest app to cross the 1 million users mark, reaching the milestone in one hour and beating ChatGPT's record of five days.
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Zuckerberg also announced subsequent milestones of 2 million, 5 million, and 10 million users on the Threads app – it took the Twitter clone two hours, four hours, and seven hours, respectively.
This was enough to bring Zuckerberg out of his Twitter exile – he tweeted for the first time in more than 10 years, with a meme to mark the occasion.
While this demonstrates Meta's ability to rapidly scale up, it is worth pointing out that Threads is currently an extension of Instagram, which has over 2 billion users.
Elon Musk's Shenanigans Adding To Threads Hype?
Elon Musk's recent decisions in running Twitter, including the one to implement drastic rate limits that made the social network inaccessible to millions of users over the previous weekend, could have also fueled the hype for Threads.
To make the most of this, Meta moved up its timeline for Threads launch – it was initially scheduled to launch on July 6th at 10 a.m. ET, but it was instead launched on July 5th at 7 p.m. ET.
It remains to be seen if Threads can maintain the momentum and activity on its platform, or if it is just a knee-jerk reaction to Musk's shenanigans.
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