Threads is the new Twitter

Meta announced Threads has hit a new milestone a month before it's 3rd birthday: 

Today we’re announcing that Threads has reached 500 million monthly active users, a milestone that reflects people’s desire for a public space built around conversation. This growth is driven by communities — groups of people showing up around the conversations they care about, from books to basketball to parenting to music. Those communities built Threads into what it is and now, we’re adding new tools to help them become even more meaningful and dynamic.

Threads quickly became my favorite short form, "digital Time Square" shortly after X started to go downhill for me content wise. There are still a lot of important people that I follow of X, especially a lot of Marquee product managers for a lot of the Google apps and services that I use daily. A good example of this dance I have to post between Threads and X is that Josh Woodward, VP at Google Labs announced something I'm glad I didn't miss as I was randomly scrolling X yesterday: 

Want unreleased @GeminiApp features before anyone else? Love breaking, testing, and shaping new tech?

We're opening a limited number of slots for power users to join the Gemini Trusted Tester program.

With a Google Form link to sign up. It was only an hour later, which is an eternity for this sort of things, where Joana Carrasqueira, product manager at Google Deep Mind reshared Josh's post. 

To think Threads is already at 500M monthly active users despite not having major announcements from big players and brands on the platform truly is a testament to the vast strength of community on Threads. Exclusivity aside, Tech Threads is a much healthier and vibrant community than Tech-X, formerly known as Tech Twitter. 

Threads has always surpassed X's daily active users last year.