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Celebrities, lawmakers, brands and everyday social media users are flocking to Meta’s freshly minted app Threads to connect with their followers, including many Twitter refugees tired of the drama surrounding Elon Musk’s raucous oversight of that platform since acquiring it last year

In less than a week, Threads has already amassed a following of over 100 million users, while several sources report that Twitter’s daily users are dropping.

Meta's Instagram launched a rival to Twitter dubbed Threads last Wednesday, which brought 30 million sign-ups overnight.

Threads, the Twitter competitor from Instagram, has already reached 100 million users after less than a week.

Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk-owned platform has grown rapidly since launch last Wednesday

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has today announced that the new Threads social network has surpassed 100 million users in less than a week after the Twitter rival first launched.

Elon Musk is no stranger to highly competitive markets in which you take advantage of a competitor’s weakness. For once, he is on the receiving end as Meta launches its microblogging platform Threads to take advantage of his difficulties at Twitter.

It looks like Threads is here to stay following the number of sign-ups

Meta’s new social media platform Threads has reached over 100 million users just one week after launching.

Some big money has decided not to choose its social media champion.