Meta says they now have half a billion monthly active users on #Threads.
This is about 100x that of #Bluesky, and about 500x that of #Mastodon, at only about 3 years old. How do *you* explain this?
about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta…
New Features to Celebrate 500 Million Monthly Users on Threads
We're launching new communities features on Threads to celebrate reaching 500 million monthly active users.Meta Newsroom (Meta)
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Johannes Ernst • • •Don Marti
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Andy Piper
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •@_elena why do we “need” to trust them, or be in awe of (or chase) whatever number they invent?
It’s all financial engineering, highly speculative.
If they are going to put up numbers like that, then they should be completely transparent and auditable. That’s never going to happen.
Nik
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •@_elena to be specific: cohenmilstein.com/case-study/d…
> Documents produced by Meta have confirmed that senior executives at the company knew for years that its “potential reach” metric was inflated – yet they failed to do anything, and even took steps to cover up the problem. [...] For example, among 18-34-year-olds in Chicago, Meta asserted its “Potential Reach” was approximately 4 times (400%) higher than the number of real 18-34 year-olds with Facebook accounts in Chicago.
Facebook Potential User Reach Litigation - Cohen Milstein
Cohen MilsteinLuca Sironi
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •well, if only they would have implemented real, serious, two way #fediverse federation, we could have seen all those wonderful posts ...