By the Numbers: The state of Threads one year later

It hasn’t dethroned X yet — but Threads has made its mark.Threads was thrust into the world on July 5, 2023. Some might suggest it was released as a half-baked, opportunistic knee-jerk move by Meta, with bare-bones features that were clearly inspired by old-school Twitter.
But opportunity knocked when X began throttling the number of posts users could see in an attempt to battle bots. Threads was released early and immediately raked in users: 30 million users signed up in the first d