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Instagram, Snapchat, X or Threads; which was the most deleted app of 2023?
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1y ago
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According to a study by TRG Datacentres, Instagram is the most deleted social media app, with over 1 million searches on "how to delete my Instagram account" each month. This poses a potential threat to Instagram's 2 billion user-base. Snapchat is the second most deleted app, with approximately 130,000 people searching for how to delete their account each month.
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‘When they sold to FBI…’: Twitter founder quits Instagram, Elon Musk reacts
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1y ago
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has deleted his Instagram account after being inactive for years and criticized the platform's app "Threads." He stated that he was one of the first users of Instagram and invested as an angel investor. Dorsey's departure from Instagram remains without a clear explanation, and he mentioned it took him a while to do so. He has shown a mixed relationship with Twitter, maintaining some stake while supporting rivals like Bluesky and Nostr.
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Users flock to Threads as X suffers largest outage since Musk takeover
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1y ago
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On Thursday morning, X experienced its most severe outage since Elon Musk took over last year. Over 90,000 users reported platform outages, with the majority coming from the X app. During the outage, there was a spike in Google searches for "Threads," indicating users were seeking an alternative. X has been losing users to Threads, which has quickly gained popularity with around 100 million monthly users in just three months. The reason for the outage is unknown, and X has not yet commented on the issue.
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Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows | TechCrunch
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23d ago
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Instagram Threads is nearing its competitor X in daily mobile app users, boasting 115.1 million daily active users as of June 2025, a 127.8% increase year-over-year. X has 132 million daily actives, but its growth has declined by 15.2%. While Bluesky has experienced significant growth, it remains much smaller with 4.1 million daily active users. Threads competes closely with X on mobile, but X dominates in web visits with 145.8 million against Threads' 6.9 million.
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Meta's Threads app: The text-based social media platform from Instagram trying to replace X
Business Insider
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1y ago
Medial
Meta launched a social networking venture called Threads in July 2023. The app aims to provide a platform for public conversations, primarily focusing on text-based communication. Users can post threads, engage with others through likes and replies, and share media files like photos and videos. Threads gained initial popularity by leveraging Instagram's user base. It features a feed similar to X (formerly known as Twitter), and has a character limit of 500 for posts, compared to X's 280-character limit. However, Threads faced initial privacy concerns and criticism for not allowing users to delete their Threads accounts separately from their Instagram accounts. While it achieved significant downloads and user activity upon launch, time will tell if Threads can sustain its popularity and potentially rival X as a leading microblogging website.
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The Greatest App of All Time Day 5: Snapchat vs. Vine
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1y ago
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In a March Madness bracket challenge to determine the greatest app of all time, yesterday's contest saw iMessage advance with 54 percent of the vote, defeating Flappy Bird. Today, Snapchat goes up against Vine, which was a six-second video platform introduced by Twitter in 2013. While Snapchat has evolved and faced competition from Instagram, Vine was unable to find success as a business and was eventually shut down in 2017. However, TikTok has emerged as a popular platform that took over where Vine left off. Readers can vote for their favorite app in the poll.
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Meta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram
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1y ago
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Meta plans to temporarily shut down its messaging app, Threads, in Turkey from April 29. This decision comes after an interim injunction was imposed by the Turkish competition authority, which accused Meta of abusing its dominant market position by combining user data from Threads and Instagram without user consent. Meta has faced multiple regulatory issues in Europe, including a $267 million GDPR fine over WhatsApp breaches and the forced sale of Giphy. The company will appeal the interim order and hopes to bring Threads back to Turkey soon. In the meantime, users will have the option to delete or deactivate their profiles.
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Meta's new Threads, a rival for X, is now Apple's most downloaded app
Business Insider
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1y ago
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Threads, the text-based social media platform from Meta, has skyrocketed in popularity and become the most downloaded app in Apple's US app store. Threads initially faced usage decline due to its lack of features, but the team behind it made improvements and added new functionalities. Since its launch, Threads has gained over 150 million downloads and has shown steady growth in users. In contrast, X, which Elon Musk acquired and rebranded as Twitter, has experienced a decrease in daily and monthly active users, with advertisers fleeing the platform due to controversial tweets by Musk.
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Meta’s X rival Threads reaches more than 130 million monthly users
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1y ago
Medial
Instagram Threads has seen a growth of 30 million in its monthly active users, reaching a total of 130 million, according to Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg. While the initial interest in the app faded, Threads now has more active users than during its launch peak. Threads is part of Meta's family of apps, which collectively had 3.19 billion daily users in Q4 2023. Meta reported $40.1 billion in revenue for the quarter and expressed progress in advancing AI and the metaverse.
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Threads users can now turn off post suggestions for Instagram and Facebook
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1y ago
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Meta's Threads now allows users to disable post suggestions for Instagram and Facebook. Users can go to the privacy section of the Threads app, uncheck the toggles for Facebook and Instagram under "Suggesting posts on other apps" to prevent their posts from being suggested on these platforms. The feature aims to boost engagement on Threads, which reportedly has nearly 100 million monthly users. The app also introduced new features like view counts, polls, GIFs, and pinned posts.
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Threads is adding live scores for sports games, starting with the NBA
TechCrunch
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1y ago
Medial
Threads, the app from Instagram, is testing live scores for NBA games and plans to expand to other leagues. The feature aims to attract users who want to discuss live games and stay updated. Threads also allows users to tap a team's logo and join the conversation about that team, connecting with other fans. Basketball has become one of the most popular topics on Threads, and the addition of live scores is part of the app's vision to become a hub for sports discourse. The feature enables users to search for game start times, current scores, and final scores. This move by Threads is part of its ongoing effort to compete with X by offering similar functionalities, such as trending topics.
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