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minus-squareSulaymanF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 years agoIt’s fun to snark on threads but yes, it had 100 million signups in a week and 50 million people still using it.
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minus-squareSulaymanF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 years agoI don’t support Meta and they’re not a good company. I was merely answering the question about where people went. Meta is a public company though so they could get in legal trouble for false reports, and there’s also a bunch of ways advertisers can check metrics.
minus-squared3Xt3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoA big chunk of those would be bots/fake/spam accounts, ie not real users. Marketing companies have already started selling fake followers for Thread influencers. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yes-already-buy-fake-followers-145053836.html
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It’s fun to snark on threads but yes, it had 100 million signups in a week and 50 million people still using it.
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I don’t support Meta and they’re not a good company. I was merely answering the question about where people went.
Meta is a public company though so they could get in legal trouble for false reports, and there’s also a bunch of ways advertisers can check metrics.
A big chunk of those would be bots/fake/spam accounts, ie not real users. Marketing companies have already started selling fake followers for Thread influencers.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yes-already-buy-fake-followers-145053836.html
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