Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?
Even allowing people to follow that account?
Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.
Yet another example of meta being extra fucking creepy
Threads isn't "successful", they just happen to own the social graph. Why can't people see this?
So it's made of mostly fake accounts from Instagram. That has to be the shadiest thing I've seen from a social media app. Just making "shadow" accounts from other social media apps to artificially boost it's analytics.
I especially noticed this as someone that lives in the EU and decided to check it out using a VPN. 90% of my friends are also from inside the EU and can't download the app but they were all in my list of suggested people.
In other news, Facebook Messenger somehow knows I have a Facebook account!
i knew accounts were being automatically created and thats why i don't believe the numbers
Copy, paste, succes
They already advertised this in a way though.
I think one of the links for IG is Threads.instagram.con
That alone made me think they’re going to end up finding a way to merge the two or make them paired.
big numbers for ego boosting headlines and ad sales
Well, it's basically an extension to your insta account. So I imagine when you sign up, it sends requests to others you know to make it seem like everybody uses it.
It’s funny how people continue to think that joining threads is optional.
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