at launch, we discussed at length here what the long term viability of Threads was.
at this point it's safe to say Threads is a worthy contender, being 1/3 or 1/2 the size of Twitter. 
Zuck doesn't play

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/02/metas-threads-cross-200-million-active-users/ 

I don’t believe any of the numbers because of the Instagram notification and Story gimmicks. 

Meta is famous for being a DAU culture and the fact they report MAU here is a flag.

Go on Threads, it’s journalists Squidward behind window meme talking about Twitter.

Cannot trust meta at all for any social platform with bots as a business model. There it's wild.