There are already *a ton* of UK companies, organisations, newspapers, celebrities, etc. with accounts here out of the box, all blue-tick-verified. Quite a good starting base. #Threads

After following one (popular) account, my Home feed suddenly showed me a list of random influencers. Potentially annoying, I thought. Then I followed more accounts closer to my interests, and the feed started transforming to recommend me more of the same. So it's pretty strongly algorithmic. #Threads

No DMs either. Perhaps they'll be adding these into Messenger like with Instagram?

And already the hate accounts are descending on it. LibsOfTikTok, GaysAgainstG******s, and a small swarm of trolls all spewing transphobia at trans accounts. Have reported all for hate speech. Big test for their moderation. #Threads

Rolling Stone account already at 50k followers in 3 hours—the same as their follow count here. Safe to say the numbers on the doors here are impressive. #Threads

Being reported that they hit 2m users in 2 hours. Given its the middle of the night in the UK as well, that's… something. #BlueSky user account for comparison: 200k; even on waiting list only 1.9m. #Threads

Zuckerberg just posted: "Just passed 5 million sign ups in the first four hours." Over 1m signups per hour. #Threads