Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5 million DAU on iOS and Android as of January 7, thanks to Instagram promotions, while X had 125 million DAU; X continues to dominate the web— A report from market intelligence company Similarweb suggests that Meta’s Threads is now used more daily than Elon Musk’s X on mobile devices.
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