More than 100 million users have downloaded the Threads app, which Instagram released as a Twitter rival, in less than five days.
According to data tracking websites Monday, this seea Thread overtake CHATGBT’s records of the fastest growing users.
While ChatGPT took two months and TikTok took nine months to gain 100 million users, Instagram took two and a half years after its 2010 launch to reach that milestone.
Threads went live late Wednesday in 100 countries on Apple and Android app stores, but it is not available in Europe because parent company Meta is unsure how to overcome the European Union’s data protection rules.
Twitter is expected to have approximately 200 million regular users, but it has seen numerous technological difficulties since Elon Musk purchased the platform last year and laid off hundreds of employees.
Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has also alienated many users by charging for previously free services and reintroducing banned right-wing accounts on the network.
