Threads App Gains 100 Million Users in Under a Week, Elon Musk’s Twitter Reportedly Sees Traffic Drop

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Threads App Gains 100 Million Users in Under a Week, Elon Musk’s

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Reportedly Sees Traffic Drop

Threads has 100 million registered users, less than a week after

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parent Meta launched its new microblogging platform. The company’s app is closely linked to a user’s

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account and is positioned as an alternative to services like

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, which was acquired by Elon Musk last year. Days after it was rolled out globally (except in the EU), the app has seen a meteoric rise in users signing up for the service, hitting new milestones every day. Threads has been able to achieve this fast rate of growth because Meta tied the service to

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, which has over 2.35 billion monthly active users.

Last week, Meta launched threads and began to add temporary “account numbers” on

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to denote which users had signed up for the new microblogging service. These numbers are also an indication of how many users have signed up for the service, as they are issued to users in a chronological order. As per a website that is tracking these figures, the number of users on Threads

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the 100 million mark around 12:30pm IST on Monday.

With only a couple of updates since it was launched, Threads still lacks several features found on other microblogging services such as

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and Mastodon. These include private messaging (DMs) and a functional search feature. The company is now allowing users to sign up to test beta versions of the Threads app on Android via the

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Play store and try new features before they are released to the public.

It’s also worth noting that due to the tight integration with

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, deleting your Threads account profile will currently delete your

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account. According to

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head Adam Mosseri, the company is

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that will allow users to delete their Threads account separately. In the meanwhile, users can deactivate their Threads account which will hide their profile and posts on the platform, he added.

The blistering pace at which Threads keeps adding new users appears to have unsettled rival

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, which has reportedly threatened to sue

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parent Meta over the alleged theft of trade secrets. The firm claims that Meta hired workers ***** off last year by Elon Musk after he took over the platform, and “deliberately” tasked them with working on Threads. Musk also made a

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about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday, signalling that the quick rise of Threads has caused some consternation at

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While Threads has crossed the 100 million user mark in less than a week, it ******** to be seen how many users remain active on the platform.  Meanwhile,

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’s DNS ranking has seen a drop over the first six months of the year, according to data shared by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on Threads (

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The Verge).

The screenshot of the DNS ranking for

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’s primary domain showed a ***** from January to July. Meanwhile,

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is currently ranked 184 on the Cloudflare Radar

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 list. This corroborates data shared by SimilarWeb earlier this year that

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traffic has seen a decline since the beginning of the year.

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