Threads, an Instagram app for text-based messaging, launched this week and has seen a meteoric rise in number of signups within the first 52 hours.
On Thursday, a lawyer for Elon Musk’s Twitter accused Meta of leveraging “trade secrets” to launch its Twitter competitor, Threads, which garnered more than 30 million sign ups in its first 24 hours of operation.
Musk’s threats, however, did nothing to slow adoption of the new platform. In fact, user takeup increased.
According to the number badges appearing on Instagram profiles, denoting when someone joined Threads, there are now over 80 million accounts on the Threads app.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted the number of sign-ups was “beyond our expectations.”
Threads should reach 100 million users within a few days of its launch at the current pace of user adoption.
