Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150 million monthly active users

Meta’s Twitter/X rival Threads is rising at a secure tempo. The social community now has greater than 150 million month-to-month energetic customers — up from 130 million in February — Mark Zuckerberg talked about in the course of the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings name.

For the reason that final quarterly earnings name, Threads has notably taken steps in the direction of integrating with ActivityPub, the decentralized protocol that powers networks like Mastodon. In March, the corporate allowed U.S.-based users over 18 to connect their accounts to the Fediverse so their posts would present up on different servers.

The corporate additionally plans to launch its API to a wide set of developers by June, permitting them to construct experiences across the social community. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless not clear if Threads will permit builders to make full-fledged third-party shoppers.

Final week, Meta launched its AI chatbot throughout Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Threads was a notable exclusion from this listing, presumably due to the shortage of native DM performance.

On Wednesday, Threads additionally launched a take a look at function to let users auto-archive their posts after a interval of outlined time. They will additionally archive or unarchive particular person posts and make them public.

Threads is roughly 9 months previous, and Meta has steadily constructed out the viewers. Nevertheless, it’s strictly not an X various, as Instagram Head Adam Mosseri mentioned in October that Threads received’t “amplify news on the platform.” However Meta’s social community continues to be gaining steam. Earlier this week, Business Insider reported that based on app analytics agency Apptopia, Threads now has extra each day energetic customers within the U.S. than X.