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Are they new users, or just IG users that login with their previous account into a new feature that lives in a separate app?

GG number crunchers at meta I guess

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These are new or existing IG users. Either way, the user must download the app and go through a full onboarding flow to increment the count, which is how publications are tracking. The count is public for anyone to see.

I wonder how many of those are already bots tho

lmao

https://github.com/junhoyeo/threads-api

Well they still got that amount of people to download a new app, but yes, they are all IG users.

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