Threads user count reaches 175 million in its first year

Meta Platforms's (META) Twitter-alternative Threads was launched nearly one year ago on July 5, initially appearing on the Apple App Store on July 3. In that time, the social media platform has amassed 175 million users.

Market Domination Overtime anchors Seana Smith and Josh Lipton chat about Threads' massive growth from third-quarter 2023 to the the second quarter in 2024.

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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.

Video transcript

Happy birthday to meta's Threads.

The social media site turning one this week its launch began with a Bang Meta scooped up nearly 100 million or 100 monthly act, 100 million monthly active users.

I believe in the first three months of threads launch.

But since then growth has slowed meta, Ceo Mark Zuckerberg announcing this morning that the app owes more than 100 and 75 million monthly users.

Now, the app was originally marketed, it's a quote unquote friendlier version of X, the site formerly known as Twitter.

And there's still a wide gap between the two X A and March and it sees around 550 million users monthly here.

So again, they've got a ways to go to catch up.

We talked a lot about it.

Threads was debuted.

You tried threads?

I've tried it, have you?

Yeah, I did.

You know, it's not something I check regularly, but I have dabbled with it a little bit.

Yeah, I'm not, let's just say I'm not really surprised that we haven't seen dramatic growth here over the last year.