Many have tried and many have failed, but can Mark Zuckerberg finally take down Twitter? He’s off to a good start.
Threads, the Mark Zuckerberg-backed rival to Twitter, is officially live, and it’s off to a booming start. According to a Thread post from Zuckerburg Wednesday night, the new service gained over 10 million users in the first 7 hours it was available.
But if you tally Instagram badges (Instagram users get a badge when they sign up for Threads), that number swelled to 23 million by Thursday morning. That’s well below the 1.3 billion active users of Instagram and 335 million active users of Twitter, but it’s certainly a good launching point.
Several platforms made attempts at creating a viable rival to Twitter, but none have succeeded yet. However, as frustrations seem to be mounting with Twitter and decisions made by owner Elon Musk, it seems like the perfect chance for another service to finally be “the next Twitter.
