▲ 39 ▼ Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users (www.theverge.com) submitted 3 years ago by developerjustin@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social 79 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Cat@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago (2 children) @small44, did you already have an Instagram account and get automatically signed up? Just curious if that is what they are doing to get so many users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ggadget6@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) What they're doing is making it very easy to sign up. You just need to go to your Instagram and click a few buttons and you've created a threads account. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cat@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Then my guess is a lot of users are seeing something new and clicking along out of curiosity. Then they walk away and don't look at it again :-) permalink fedilink source parent [–] small44@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago I believe that it's creating the threads account based on your Instagram credentials just like you get signed up on many sites without your Google account permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ggadget6@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) What they're doing is making it very easy to sign up. You just need to go to your Instagram and click a few buttons and you've created a threads account. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cat@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Then my guess is a lot of users are seeing something new and clicking along out of curiosity. Then they walk away and don't look at it again :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cat@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Then my guess is a lot of users are seeing something new and clicking along out of curiosity. Then they walk away and don't look at it again :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] small44@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago I believe that it's creating the threads account based on your Instagram credentials just like you get signed up on many sites without your Google account permalink fedilink source parent