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Business Matters: Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week

Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week

11/07/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week

Threads app has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days

Mark Zuckerberg - the head of the tech giant, Meta - says its new platform, Threads, has signed up more than a-hundred million users since it was launched five days ago.

Threads, the social media app aimed at rivalling Twitter, has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days. The platform, launched by Instagram-owner Meta, has beaten a record set by Open AI's ChatGPT app.

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(The Meta logo with an Instagram Threads logo in the background. Source: Getty Images)

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