Mark Zuckerberg Challenges Twitter: Meta’s Threads Sees Sharp Decline in Users

Introduction

Despite the sharp decline in its users, Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, has once again challenged Twitter, stating that there is a need for an application for public conversations that attracts a billion users and that Twitter has so far failed in this task.

The app of social media Meta-owned Threads has seen a nearly 70% drop in daily active users since its July 7 peak, according to market news firm Sensor Tower, marring their explosive launch just two weeks ago and pale in comparison to the media giant’s Twitter glare. social media.

Threads has nearly 13 million daily active users, in drop from 44 million on July 7, and the average daily time a user spends on the app is four minutes, which is in drop from its launch day peak of 19 minutes, according to Sensor Tower.

Decline in Usage

This comes after the company reported that it had 100 million signups within a week of the platform launching on July 5.

By comparison, Twitter has around 200 million daily active users, and the average time a user spends on the platform is 30 minutes. The two platforms of social media they work in similar way, but Thread is missing some important features in Twitter’s favor, including desktop functionality and the ability to search for topics instead of just users.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta executives said they expect usage to drop and are planning new features to keep users on the app.

Threads launched on July 5th, allowing users to sign up with their accounts from the other platform of social media of Meta. With over 2 billion monthly users, Instagram’s popularity has probably helped boost the prime Subscriptions to Threads.

Impact on Twitter

During the first two days after the launch of Threads, traffic web on Twitter was down 5% from the previous week, the newspaper reported.
However, Sensor Tower said it hasn’t seen a major change in Twitter traffic since the launch of Threads.

For his part, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said that Threads is an attempt by his company to seize opportunities in the market that Twitter has always enjoyed.

“I think there should be an app for public conversations with more than a billion people,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post on his new app.

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