This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads

https://lemmy.world/post/1212739

This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads - Lemmy.world

Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram? Even allowing people to follow that account? Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

Is this a reported news, or a speculation? Really curious, before I start going around, repeating it.

I have two Instagram accounts and I created a Threads account on one. Searched for the other and there’s nothing I can find for it. Definitely can’t follow the second account on Threads.

I’m not trying to be a Meta apologist here. I trust them about as far as I can throw a car (especially given the insane amount of data collection mentioned in the App/Play Stores) but in my limited test I don’t see a way to follow an account until you activate it on Threads