Wednesday afternoon, Meta turned the social media landscape upside down. In less than two hours, the company reported that its new app, Threads, reached 2 million users. Now, after just a few short days, that number has climbed even higher, with notable celebrities and influencers migrating to the platform.
That has ruffled some feathers at Twitter. Twitter, owned now by Elon Musk, is filing lawsuits and taking aim at Meta’s new app.
With all the speculation and punditry around the latest piece of social media, we check in with how Americans are reacting to Threads in five charts below. CONTINUED
Clifford Young & Sarah Feldman, Ipsos
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