The amount of (very impressive) human labor that went into building something that was dead on delivery. Kudos to them for being able to incentivize engineers to pull through this.
I would still consider Threads dead because you don't hear about it. You often see screenshots of tweets or links to tweets on here and other sites, this tells me that people are actively using Twitter/X and engaging with it. But as for threads? I haven't seen a single screenshot or link to Threads outside of ads you get on Instagram about it.
What I see is that Threads is on life support and the life support machine is Instagram, if not got IG, Threads would be 100% DOA.
That’s like saying it’s impressive I made a million dollar company after my dad gave me 2 billion.
And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying.
This statement is meaningless without knowing what the product, revenue and its Total Addressable Market are. 100M MAU out of 1.5B TAM is not attention-worthy. Twitter at it's peak had 550M MAU, so Threads doing close to 20% of that in less than a year is impressive.
The current MAU is calculated by counting the users who see threads on instagram and accidentally click on it - which is A LOT.
Just was pointing out user numbers and that the average Hacker News commenter’s bubble is not representative of how most of the world uses social media.