Meta's Threads Soars to 130M Monthly Users, Triples Downloads as Musk Twitter Spurs Competition
• Threads now has over 130 million monthly active users, up 30 million from last quarter, announced Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg • Threads is growing steadily and now has more active users than its initial launch peak, per Zuckerberg • Threads competes with various startups and open source social apps that sprang up after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter • Threads tripled downloads in December to become the 6th most downloaded app across iOS and Android app stores • Meta family of apps used by 3.19 billion people daily in Q4 2023, up from 3.14 billion last quarter, now with 3.98 billion monthly active users total