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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 20:01:01 JST mcc

   Zuckerberg is now claiming Threads has 100 million *daily* active users.

   https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/16/24322947/mark-zuckerberg-meta-threads-100-million-daily-active-users

   Do you believe this is true?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 20:01:31 JST mcc

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     Zuckerberg is speaking in a context where there are actual legal consequences for not telling the truth. So I don't see how he could be lying. But also I'm doing the "what would have to be true for this to be true?" logic & unless the vast bulk of users are in non-anglophone countries, it doesn't add up.

     Look at the "numbers" on Zuckerberg's announcement of 100M+ DAU. I made *checks* six posts on Bluesky (a site with 25M users EVER) with higher metrics than this in the last *week*. Is that odd?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 20:02:05 JST mcc

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     According to his Threads profile, Mark Zuckerberg has 4.5 million followers on Threads. I have 3,400 followers on Bluesky. How am I making posts with more interactions than him, on a network with— if Zuckerberg is telling the truth— 1/100th of the daily userbase? I'm not *that* much more interesting than him.

     From replies, this theory as to why the numbers seem weird sounds plausible:

     https://selfy.army/@alys/113665487488484838

     But honestly, I think this is actually the theory I believe:

     https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@invicticide/113665484602606531

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     Josh Sutphin (invicticide@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 20:03:08 JST Josh Sutphin

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     @mcc Instagram has started surfacing Threads content in a special carousel. My bet is every Instagram DAU is triggering DAU metrics for Threads just by fetching those.