DAU for Threads is misleading, Meta seems to count impressions in Instagram where Threads sections sometimes show up. I personally know no one who uses Threads.
reply> I personally know no one who uses Threads
replyReal ‘I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon’ energy here.
That's why I didn't start off with that statement lest I be accused of anecdata which is fair. But it's true in my case. How many do you know that use Threads, especially on a regular basis?
reply> I personally know no one who uses Threads.
replyI don’t know literally anyone using twitter and yet obviously people do.
Perhaps what the individuals we know are doing are in fact reflective of not very much.
I still see links to X quite often. I don’t think I have ever seen a link to Threads.
replySorry but no. I don't care what inflated numbers Meta brags about after redirecting random people from Instagram and counting that as an "active user", Threads is so utterly irrelevant that I literally forget it exists for months at a time because nobody talks about it.
replyEven here on HN, searching for links to threads.com in comments from the past year yields a mere 53 results. For comparison, searching for xcancel.com, an unofficial frontend for x.com that allows logged out users to view replies, yields 795 results.
Threads is extremely ‘normie-coded,’ I don’t think there’s much overlap with HN demographics.
replyTwitter seems to be more popular in reddit too
replyThere's not much overlap with any demographics.
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