Needless to say, Meta’s Threads is a pretty popular platform. It launched just a few days ago, and it’s already amassed millions of users. In fact, Threads is popular enough to make it to the top of both of the app stores.
Threads is the new social media platform from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, and it borrows heavily from Twitter (but, what new social media platform isn’t?), and that could land it in some legal trouble.
Elon Musk’s legal team is threatening to sue Meta over alleged misappropriation of trade secrets. The company claims that Meta hired former Twitter employees, those in possession of Twitter trade secrets, to build Threads. If this is the case, then Meta did commit a serious federal crime, as did the alleged employees. However, that’s yet to be officially confirmed.
Threads is at the top of the app stores
Legal matters aside, Threads is really gaining some serious traction as time goes on. It’s probably the fastest-growing social media site on the internet. As of this morning, the platform boasts more than 66 million signups. That’s impressive, but we can’t forget that it’s riding on the back of Instagram’s 1 billion+ users.
In order to get a grasp of how popular the app is, it’s at the top of its respective categories in both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
In the Google Play Store, Threads is #1 in the Free Social Media category. On the Apple side, it’s the #1 app in the Social Networking category. This is for the list of iPhone apps. The app is available on the iPad as well, but not many people are downloading it on the iPad for understandable reasons.
Right now, Threads is far from perfect. While the app has become a new platform for people to bad-mouth Elon Musk, there’s still a ton of stuff that it’s missing. There are no hashtags, DMs, or general searches. Also, if you want to delete your Threads account, you’ll need to delete your Instagram account in the process. However, that could change.
If you’re looking to download Threads, you can do so with the link below.
Download Threads