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Updated on June 1, 2024
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Content Writer
Published March 23, 2024
Instagram Threads is a great place to connect with your client’s followers and join conversations via short texts, photos, videos, memes, and more.
Afterall, the platform is fairly new.
That means competition isn’t as fierce, allowing you to establish your client as an early adopter and gain a head start over competitors who have yet to create their IG Threads account.
To help you get a better feel of the new platform, checkout the Instagram Threads statistics we put together below.
We scoured the web and saw several interesting stats about IG Threads.
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri said this about Meta’s Threads app…
“The idea is to hopefully build an open, friendly space for communities.”
The question is, did IG Threads succeed at being the space it was designed to be?
Before diving into the stats, let’s look at the general details about Instagram Threads.
Owned by | Meta Platforms, Inc. |
Headquarters | California |
Launch date | July 6, 2023 |
Platform type | Social media or networking |
Availability | The U.S. and 99 other countries(except China, Iran, and Russia). Threads wasn’t available in the EU until December 14, 2023. |
Popular as | An X (Formerly Twitter) alternative |
Supported languages | Over 30 languages (for the app) |
Post character limit | Maximum of 500 characters of text, including videos of up to 5 minutes long, photos, and links. |
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Evercore’s research department, International Strategy & Investment (ISI), projects the following Instagram Threads revenue for the next three years.
Threads generated an average of 73 million downloads within the first month of the app’s release.
Most Threads downloads came from India, Brazil, and the United States.
Here’s a breakdown of Instagram Threads downloads by country:
Source: www.statista.com
Threads had over 30 million signups within 24 hours of its launch and had more than 100 million signups within the first five days. It overtook ChatGPT to become the fastest app to reach 100 million users.
Check out these other details on Instagram Threads user and usage statistics.
According to a 2023 survey in the U.S., most Gen Z users downloaded the Threads app because it looked fun.
A general portion of the surveyed respondents downloaded the app because they wanted to try a new social media platform, and more than 20% tried Threads because families and friends were on it.
One in five users wanted an X (formerly Twitter) alternative.
Let’s take a look at the breakdown of the survey results.
Source: www.statista.com
Threads had over 30 million signups within 24 hours of its launch. The user signups included celebrities, journalists, major brands, and other prominent people.
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While you can’t schedule posts to auto-publish on Threads yet (everyone’s waiting for the API to be available), you can do so with your clients’ Instagram content.
And the best social media management platform for the job is Vista Social.
The platform’s features help you plan, develop, manage, and schedule your clients’ Instagram and other social media posts (including Threads in the near future!)
You can use Vista Social’s Publisher to create your clients’ Instagram in-feed posts, Reels, and Stories and schedule them to auto-publish.
The Publisher feature includes an AI Assistant that instantly generates photo dump captions, Story taglines, and photo and video descriptions for you.
You can also use the AI Assistant to reply to followers through the platform’s Social Inbox, a unified inbox for all your clients’ social media profile messages and comments.
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Additional tip: Use the AI Assistant to generate other content, including Instagram Notes.
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You can manage all your clients’ drafted, published, and scheduled Instagram and other social media posts with the content calendar.
Another awesome Vista Social feature is Vista Page, a link in bio tool with customizable landing pages and micro websites.
Through robust reporting and analytics tools, Vista Social can also provide actionable insights into your clients’ Instagram content performance and audience engagement.
Check out these other resources to help your clients nail their Instagram marketing and audience engagement efforts.
The latest data shows that Threads has 160 million users.
Professional football player Neymar’s Threads account has the highest number of followers (13.7 million).
Yes, but most of Threads’ analytics features are still in development since the app is pretty new.
Threads can give you data on users who liked, replied to, reposted, and quoted your clients’ posts.
Based on the fourth quarter results for 2023, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that Threads is growing steadily, with roughly 130 million monthly active users.
Zuckerberg added…
”With the current growth rate, it could achieve the mark of a billion users in the next few years.”
He stated that the platform has more active users now than it did during the peak of Threads’ initial launch.
Knowing the latest Instagram Threads numbers equips you with valuable insights into trends, user behavior, and the platform’s evolution.
Staying informed puts you in a better position to optimize your clients’ audience engagement strategies and content to dominate Threads.
Supercharge your Threads and Instagram content planning and development with Vista Social.
Create your Vista Social account today to accelerate your social media management workflows.
About the Author
Content Writer
Jimmy Rodela is a social media and content marketing consultant with over 9 years of experience, with work appearing on sites such as Business.com, Yahoo, SEMRush, and SearchEnginePeople. He specializes in social media, content marketing, SaaS, small business strategy, marketing automation, and content development.
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