@darius but telling it like that isn't good marketing...

@darius Given deactivating Threads requires deactivating Instagram, I’m somewhat curious if they may even be seeing net account *loss* given how many claim to be quitting Threads. Of course that’s not something they would admit to publicly.

@darius Yes exactly. Also - if you delete Threads, you lose your Insta account too..

This is why (sadly) nobody will probably migrate from their instance to proper Mastodon.

A lot of people on here don't seem to mention that (?)

@darius i dont have an instagram account and don't really want one.
So it does make me wonder if i would be able to use threeads IF i wanted that app.

Which i don't.

@darius
That number is meant for one person only and Zuckerberg made sure he heard it loud and clear.

"More people signed up for Threads in five days than you have followers."

@darius It's true because nothing about Threads is unusual, original, or innovative. To be honest, neither was Facebook.

@darius finally someone says this and it gets heard.

“…but did they get any **actual** new users or did they already have these users who are now trying this new feature they segmented and branded as an app?”

They are new to the thing they made, but they aren’t new to their social network. It’s like if someone moved from one Fedi instance to another and we counted that as a new user.

@darius That's an interesting perspective and I'm glad you're sharing it.

At the same time, getting a whole 5% of an online service's users to sign up for something new in just a few days still seems like a pretty high percentage. What percentages would constitute success or failure at this scale?