Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows by wongarsu on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:16PM (#46685264)

WhatsApp became popular long before Meta bought it in 2014. Signal and Telegram both came late to the scene, both around the time of the WhatsApp acquisition. Whatsapp was simply in the right place at the right time with little competition, and a combination of network effects and Meta mostly leaving it alone make it hard to get enough traction for anything else

The US has more of an Apple-monoculture and apparently moved to unlimited SMS plans much earlier than Europe, so iMessage was able to fill the same niche

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Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows by wanderingstan on Monday January 19, 2026 @06:51PM (#46686206)

And to give them credit: WhatsApp also had brilliant engineering that was able to scale with their popularity.

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Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows by blitzar on Monday January 19, 2026 @06:11PM (#46685875)

Green bubble / blue bubble social and culture wars are not a thing in Europe.

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Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows by shiroiuma on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:11PM (#46687832)

They're not a thing almost anywhere outside the US (and maybe Canada).

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Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows by Longlius on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:15AM (#46689671)

They're not really a thing in the US either, outside of people trying to engagement bait on social media.

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