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Remember Threads? It's now got 175 million users and continues to grow

Meta's rival to X, formerly known as Twitter, isn't going anywhere and is still aiming to surpass Elon Musk's platform

Threads launched to great fanfare back in 2023 and was widely tipped to be the Twitter alternative that would swiftly kill Elon Musk’s platform. Zuckerberg announced that Threads has reached more than 175 million monthly active users, but it’s hard to ascertain how much of that is due to the app being integrated into Instagram. The head of Instagram Adam Mosseri told The Verge shortly after the app launched, “It would be great if it gets really, really big, but I’m actually more interested in if it becomes culturally relevant and if it gets hundreds of millions of users.”

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