Although an app's downloads aren't an exact proxy for usage, they can hint at where the market is headed. And in the case of the alt-Twitter wars, the app
Yay, that one shitty billionaire is winning against the other shitty billionaire! As you can tell, I’m super invested in which of my favourite shitty billionaires is successful.
Daily. Active. Users. Do not care about downloads. I don’t care about user count. How many users log in daily, that’s the only metric worth reporting on
Monthly Active Users (MAU) is generally the standard measurement of success. Facebook is the leader by a longshot with a whopping 3 b-b-billion MAU. Thats nearly half the planet.
Wow I’m surprised so many people still use facebook. In my circles I hardly ever hear from it. People my age (40s) are worried about privacy, the younger generations all prefer insta (30s), tiktok (20s) and other stuff.
I really used to like facebook when it showed me updates of what my friends were doing on the timeline.
But then they moved to this algorithmic “feed” crap which hid some of my friends’ updates and inserted random other crap. Then I hated it and the privacy invasion wasn’t worth it anymore. If they’d only allowed me to keep the old timeline I probably would still be using it. It just felt like such a drag going through all the bullshit every day trying to find news from my friends.
Yes indeed. I stuck with instagram a lot longer because it didn’t do this, but now in an attempt to copycat TikTok they’ve done the same with the home screen that keeps switching back to “For you” instead of “Following”. 🤦♂️
Wow I’m surprised so many people still use facebook.
30 seconds in a month counts as an active user, so it’s not really surprising. A lot of small business, event and community information is still tied up in the Facebook ecosystem, forcing people to keep their accounts around for those occasional logins. We’re not talking about 3 billion people using it for hours a day.
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But as boosts from these early efforts wore off, Threads’ downloads would drop, returning once again to become neck-and-neck with X installs, particularly on iOS, according to data from Appfigures.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Threads had 130 million monthly active users (MAUs) as of the company’s fourth quarter.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the Threads app is doing “remarkably well” in Japan, for instance — a market where Twitter had strong traction.
As TechCrunch reported last month, X appears to have a Verified bot problem, where a number of blue-checked, paid accounts accidentally revealed their source by replying to X posts with some variation of “I’m sorry, I cannot provide the requested feedback as it goes against OpenAI’s content policy” — a boilerplate response for the AI.
As for the decentralized X alternatives, like Mastodon’s official mobile app and the newly public Bluesky, they barely register in the face of this competition, appearing as largely flat lines on the download chart.
To be fair, Mastodon has a wide third-party app ecosystem, but in total, its network is hovering around 1 million monthly active users at this time, per its own first-party data.
The white supremacists are running a campaign to help their elderly (quite a large user base) get digitally literate. You get a free noodling glove and a Substack keychain if you install X and take a 15 minute creative writing course.
Ok new plan: convince Elon to buy Meta, or at least Threads, or at least get a position on their board.
But seriously, I don’t understand people jumping from one proprietary walled garden to the next. My hope is that it’s a natural selection thing, and each time a platform gets cancelled, a small percentage of the user base will hop to the fediverse, until eventually it’s the preferred destination.
Of course threads would have higher download counts! By now everyone using X already has it installed while threads is a new service so you’d have to install the app to try it.
What a brain dead article
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Yay, that one shitty billionaire is winning against the other shitty billionaire! As you can tell, I’m super invested in which of my favourite shitty billionaires is successful.
Invested enough to comment at least
Daily. Active. Users. Do not care about downloads. I don’t care about user count. How many users log in daily, that’s the only metric worth reporting on
Monthly Active Users (MAU) is generally the standard measurement of success. Facebook is the leader by a longshot with a whopping 3 b-b-billion MAU. Thats nearly half the planet.
Wow I’m surprised so many people still use facebook. In my circles I hardly ever hear from it. People my age (40s) are worried about privacy, the younger generations all prefer insta (30s), tiktok (20s) and other stuff.
I really used to like facebook when it showed me updates of what my friends were doing on the timeline.
But then they moved to this algorithmic “feed” crap which hid some of my friends’ updates and inserted random other crap. Then I hated it and the privacy invasion wasn’t worth it anymore. If they’d only allowed me to keep the old timeline I probably would still be using it. It just felt like such a drag going through all the bullshit every day trying to find news from my friends.
Yeah they all want to cram random “suggestions” into your feed which is honestly worse than the ads.
Yes indeed. I stuck with instagram a lot longer because it didn’t do this, but now in an attempt to copycat TikTok they’ve done the same with the home screen that keeps switching back to “For you” instead of “Following”. 🤦♂️
It’s the inevitable result of users who refuse to abandon their favorite platforms.
30 seconds in a month counts as an active user, so it’s not really surprising. A lot of small business, event and community information is still tied up in the Facebook ecosystem, forcing people to keep their accounts around for those occasional logins. We’re not talking about 3 billion people using it for hours a day.
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But as boosts from these early efforts wore off, Threads’ downloads would drop, returning once again to become neck-and-neck with X installs, particularly on iOS, according to data from Appfigures.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Threads had 130 million monthly active users (MAUs) as of the company’s fourth quarter.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the Threads app is doing “remarkably well” in Japan, for instance — a market where Twitter had strong traction.
As TechCrunch reported last month, X appears to have a Verified bot problem, where a number of blue-checked, paid accounts accidentally revealed their source by replying to X posts with some variation of “I’m sorry, I cannot provide the requested feedback as it goes against OpenAI’s content policy” — a boilerplate response for the AI.
As for the decentralized X alternatives, like Mastodon’s official mobile app and the newly public Bluesky, they barely register in the face of this competition, appearing as largely flat lines on the download chart.
To be fair, Mastodon has a wide third-party app ecosystem, but in total, its network is hovering around 1 million monthly active users at this time, per its own first-party data.
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Interesting and all but boy, Threads sucks as an environment. It’s just the worst algorithm and their stance on “political content” is misery.
People are downloading X?
The white supremacists are running a campaign to help their elderly (quite a large user base) get digitally literate. You get a free noodling glove and a Substack keychain if you install X and take a 15 minute creative writing course.
Ok new plan: convince Elon to buy Meta, or at least Threads, or at least get a position on their board.
But seriously, I don’t understand people jumping from one proprietary walled garden to the next. My hope is that it’s a natural selection thing, and each time a platform gets cancelled, a small percentage of the user base will hop to the fediverse, until eventually it’s the preferred destination.
As long as Meta doesn’t manage to EEE the Fediverse first 🤢
Of course threads would have higher download counts! By now everyone using X already has it installed while threads is a new service so you’d have to install the app to try it. What a brain dead article
https://xkcd.com/1102/
“Threads had 3 app downloads yesterday, easily beating X’s 1” — you’re right, doesn’t sound as sexy 🤔