It’s all about retention now, and ActivityPub support is a ‘long while’ off. Also: Facebook hits 3 billion monthly users.
a deputy editor and author of the Command Line newsletter. He’s covered the tech industry for over a decade at The Information and other outlets.No one, including the top leadership at Meta, expected Threads to be such a runaway, early success, having now amassed more than 110 million sign-ups in just over a week.
At the opening of Meta’s internal Q&A for employees yesterday , a sizzle reel showed some of the early Threads posts from celebrities and brands, along with a graphic depicting how sign-ups soared to over 70 million in just two days. It was a deserved victory lap for a company that hasn’t launched a successful standalone app from scratch since… forever.later explained in the meeting, was how it was built.
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