5 million Threads sign-ups in first four hours—Zuckerberg
Five million users have signed up to Threads, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday, July 6 (Philippine time)—just hours after the app's launch.
Accounts are already active for celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, and Hugh Jackman, as well as media outlets including The Washington Post, Reuters, and The Economist on Meta's newly launched text-based social media platform and rival to Elon Musk-owned Twitter.
"Let's do this. Welcome to Threads," wrote Meta chief executive and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in his first post on the new platform, which will run with no ads for now.
He offered a shot across the bow at Musk—the pair are known to be bitter rivals, and have even offered to meet each other in a fighting cage to wrestle it out.
"It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully, we will," Zuckerberg said.
Shortly thereafter, he wrote: "Just passed 5 million sign-ups in the first four hours..."