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Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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All users were forced users. Meaning, everyone who had Instagram also had a threads account. No wonder everyone leaves.
Is this actually accurate though? From my understanding you had to "activate" threads access, and those who did this are those who have been counted in the numbers.
I wasn't an user, I could be wrong, but I remember reading multiple times that all users of instagram were automatically users of threads.
Not automatically. You had to click 'sign up for threads'. Still, it was very seamless and even let you auto follow those you had on Instagram, so the user count was definitely inflated. It's not surprising the number of active users are way down.
I feel like that was by design, make your numbers look better than they actually are. The thing that zuck the cuck seems to always forget is that Facebook grew organically by word of mouth, not forced through tricks and metrics. That's the main advantage of lemmy and kbin right now, their growth is by sheer word of mouth, completely organic.