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assuming the 95m posts and 30m users numbers are from the Same General Time Period, that works out to uh.

3.2 posts per user.

that doesn't seem that good, especially for a platform design that encourages Many Short Posts over few long ones.

actually yeah thinking about it more, for Day 0 from a Major Player with a HUGE media hype push behind it (the headline and subhed of this article may as well be an ad) this is really fucking embarrassing. for context, our Day 0 as a Nobody Platform with No Media Whatsoever and Only Word Of Mouth Marketing was 22 posts per user.

i guess the big benefit for meta is that, if this fails, it likely won't have been nearly as expensive a failure as their metaverse boondoggle was.


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i find it a bit funny how they were just waiting for Twitter to make yet another shitty feature that's gonna drive people away from the website to fart out this new "Threads" thing.
i don't think i'm gonna get on it, it really doesn't look great in my opinion. plus change scary!

This actually sounds about right. That 3 post average is likely brought down by lots of folks who have made an account but not posted anything, which is likely to be a lot of people on a major platform with tens of millions of users. I would expect a more niche site like Cohost would attract more active users on average than lurkers, especially on Day 0.

Also, from what I understand, people with instagram accounts are having threads accounts automatically made for them. If that makes up any of the 30 million users then there's likely users who haven't even really touched the app being counted into the data.

yeah but this is from opening weekend, when everyone is supposed to be making their "I just joined this new site if we know each other from twitter hmu" posts so this is gonna be the absolute peak they ever get until the network effect settles in (if it even does, which is questionable with this rate)

3-4 posts per day per person pretty much lines up with Instagram, too. like, i don't know what they expected there, but I genuinely do not know a single person who makes more than a post per day on Insta at most, and this is being presented as "Insta for text", so. that tracks.