Within the first few hours of its launch, more than 10 million individuals signed up for Threads, Meta’s challenger to Twitter, according to Facebook parent company CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Threads is the most serious competitor to Elon Musk’s Twitter, which has seen a slew of prospective rivals emerge but has yet to replace one of social media’s most iconic companies, despite its catastrophic troubles.
The software became online on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries on Wednesday at 2300 GMT, with no adverts for the time being.
“10 million sign-ups in seven hours,” Zuckerberg posted Thursday on his official Threads account.
“It’ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it,” Zuckerberg wrote. Twitter has had the opportunity to do so, but has failed to do so. We can only hope.”
Twitter claims to have over 200 million daily users.
