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      That’s not true. You still have to manually add your Instagram account to Threads. These are genuine signups. It’s been all over the news as the fastest growing app of all time.

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        “had to be true, I saw it on the news” is an extremely naive take.

        Journalist’s are experts in one thing. It isn’t technology or social media. Go hop on threads, there’s not half the population of the US participating FFS. It’s patently obvious. Moreover it isn’t illegal. Why wouldn’t they misreport?

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      If it’s automatic shouldn’t the number of user be the same as the number of Instagram user?

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        When you login initially it offers to follow all your Instagram follows. Even if they’ve never logged in. Its creating shadow accounts for all of them.

        When they login initially they find they already have a bunch of followers.

        So it’s not all of Instagram. It’s just all the people who’ve tried it + all the people they tried to follow.

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          I’d love a citation for that.

          If it only took a single one of your followers signing up for Threads to make a “shadow account” for you, I’d imagine the number of accounts would basically be the same as the number of Instagram accounts.

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            That really doesn’t need to be known, we could tell just from average daily active user counts. If those weren’t provided, that’s a big red flag on the rest of their numbers because there’s no reason not to include those numbers. Active users is the most accurate measure. They might reasonably choose to hype the signups number, but if everyone wants to know actives and it’s not provided, that’s Meta choosing to hide the information. Not a confident move.