• Maharashtra
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    431 year ago

    Twitter is where all drama happens.

    It doesn’t matter that some people will register an account on Threads and even use it as their primary platform.

    They will still come to Twitter to see what “them” are doing.

  • HousePanther
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    251 year ago

    I am not surprised. A good deal of it was probably driven by fear of missing out.

  • @RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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    191 year ago

    I can imagine that a bunch of those are astroturfing usernames. Businesses, celebrities and the like have a big deal of value in their online identity.

    • Margot Robbie
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      131 year ago

      Impersonating celebrities? On the Internet? Who would do such a thing?

      • @some_guy
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        41 year ago

        Well, I would, but not you. I’ll say it again: You were great in that thing!

        • Margot Robbie
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          61 year ago

          You are going to have to be more specific, because I’m great in everything. 😊

    • @s0q@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      On general, yes, however threads uses your Instagram username. I think it’s just initial excitement to try something new and people getting on the anti - X / twitter / Elon train and then realising that the network effect has way more pull

  • @HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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    151 year ago

    Maybe because they didn’t “sign-up”. I read somewhere that Meta just created accounts for all Instagram users automatically

      • @zaph@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        They announced that all Instagram users had a shadow account. I can’t remember if they were saying it was a mistake or not but it did happen.

    • @stooth64@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      I believe Instagram usernames are reserved on Threads to ensure people can keep the same handle on both networks, but the users aren’t automatically signed up with a profile.

    • djquadratic
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      41 year ago

      even if that were true - it wouldn’t make sense. That would would a) create a huge disparity between signups and DAU b) they did make the signup process very frictionless which would explain the signups better and c) I believe it threads signups were in the millions whereas Instagram has over 1B accounts

    • Proteus
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      11 year ago

      it seemed like turning on an additional function for Instagram to me. it’s still bloated with the same junk as you’d expect.

  • AnonymousLlama
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    151 year ago

    Lots of things come in peaks and troughs. They’ve still got a pretty impressive userbase considering they only just started.