Meta's Threads app now has half a billion monthly users The company says its in-app "communities" are fueling recent growth. By Karissa Bell June 16, 2026 7:00 am EST Meta's Threads app has amassed more than half a billion users. …
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… If I wanted to obscure that a leading social platform was potentially hemorrhaging daily users, that’s certainly what I would do. …
… While the impacted users are a small percentage of Meta’s overall user base of billions, these people are more likely to consider an alternative platform when and if they choose to return to social media, making them good potential customers for services like Acorn to target. …
… While Meta beat expectations on revenue, declines in user growth had the company's stock price dropping on Wednesday evening. …
… The stunning growth in the platform's user base was linked to an exodus from rival chat app WhatsApp, which concerned many of its users with a confusing privacy policy update that seemed to imply that more of their data would be shared with Facebook. …
… Every problem in a cross-platform chat is a subtle nudge to the user to return to the safety of iMessage. …
… 61 It reported no growth in monthly users, 62 and indicated it expected revenue growth to stall. 61 It also expected measures taken by Apple Inc. to protect user privacy to cost it some $10 billion in advertisement revenue, an amount equal to roughly 8% of its revenue for 2021. …
… 117 On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads , a social network platform connected to Instagram that allows users to make public shortform blog posts comprising text, photos, and videos, as well as to converse with other users and reblog other users' posts. Threads aims to compete with Twitter . …
… 407 Competition WhatsApp competes with messaging services including iMessage estimated 1.3 billion active users 408 , WeChat 1.26 billion active users 409 410 , Telegram 1 billion users 411 , Viber 260 million active users 412 , LINE 217 million active users 413 , KakaoTalk 57 million active users … …