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.

all i know is: 
my mom's on it
responses to music request posts got more responses there than other platforms
met someone in person who asked for my threads handle

just anecdotally going on now, here's an olympic athlete on threads and on x: 
https://www.threads.net/@nojo18/post/C-iEnKGNvAA?xmt=AQGzSWtJByYk1aTRW6ogAXX6IAe1NRX3HKzo9JC8mhZPgg 
https://x.com/LylesNoah/status/1822632793983099376 

2/3 the followers, 1/2 the likes, 1/4 the comments. Looks about right given 1/3 the size of MAUs. 

tbc I'm not shilling threads I'm arguing that they should be taken very seriously

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