Evan Urquhart 🏳️⚧️Do people actually believe the 70 million Threads users number?
Iisn't this the company known to have lied about video's popularity. casually destroying an entire industry?
mcc@e_urq You make a good point but also I'm just thinking about how many people I've seen "Yeah, made a threads profile so I can reserve the username".
I predict the gap between that 70 million signups at launch and weekly active users in month two will be so extreme they will never share that second stat with us.
@mcc Yeah, I'm not invested in the number itself, just in people giving credibility to the statements of an actor who is known not to have any.
In my preferred journalistic environment, every article mentioning 70m would say "according to Meta, who were previoualy exposed for having inflated the number of viewers for videos on Facebook in 20xx".
Bc I think that sort of abuse of trust should stick to people.
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