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I wish people would stop spouting nonsense and hoax like you just did.
You need to create your damn Threads account manually.
Okay, let me rephrase that.
That’s easy to achieve if you use a massive billion-person platform to aggressively push Threads on everyone’s faces and make it very easy to accidentally create an account.
Better?
Indeed it is better, because that's actually the truth.
I’ve actually not gotten any sort of advertising about it from Instagram/Meta, be in the the app or email or anything. I’ve only seen the tech blogs and people on twitter posting about it organically, so I wouldn't say they're aggressively pushing it, at least right now
Are you in Europe?
Nope, USA
Do people accidentally download an app and then sign in there regularly or just this one time?
You should see my grandma’s phone. It’s full of apps from ads.
I’m pretty sure there’s 10 million grandmas.
Do you really believe that 10 million gramdma who were on Instagram has now opened threads account or are you just zucking with me?
They have 30 million users now btw.
Will no one think of the 30 million grandmas!
Except I was prompted to create an account no less than like 2-3 times in the 2-3 times I opened Instagram after it launched. It’s not automatic but it is damn near two step enrollment. I’d like to see ”active users” two weeks/months from now after the enrollment storm passes to see who actually stayed with it.
I guarantee that my great aunt probably created one because she just wanted to get the popup to go away so she could look at pictures of her grandkids. Probably doesn't even know what Threads is.
I literally had someone request to “follow me” who then immediately text me and ask — what is this thing that it just put me on.
They are definitely inflating numbers and making it hard to drop user count because deleting threads deletes your Instagram too.
You’ll only ever hear about total users now never “active” would be my guess which after a few days or weeks will be significantly less than the “10 million” that supposedly “signed up”
I didn't, I logged in and it was like "here is your new thing"
Okay, then 70% are bots.
Why would you believe ANYTHING that meta says?
Is it something they read or something they've done? Perhaps they had to make their own Threads account.
I wouldn't be surprised if many accounts were auto-enrolled, but it may be based on activity or just a random selection to boost numbers without the massive leap of all accounts being transferred at once.