• HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Maybe because they didn’t “sign-up”. I read somewhere that Meta just created accounts for all Instagram users automatically

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        1 year ago

        They announced that all Instagram users had a shadow account. I can’t remember if they were saying it was a mistake or not but it did happen.

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      1 year ago

      I believe Instagram usernames are reserved on Threads to ensure people can keep the same handle on both networks, but the users aren’t automatically signed up with a profile.

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      1 year ago

      even if that were true - it wouldn’t make sense. That would would a) create a huge disparity between signups and DAU b) they did make the signup process very frictionless which would explain the signups better and c) I believe it threads signups were in the millions whereas Instagram has over 1B accounts