• Cat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @small44, did you already have an Instagram account and get automatically signed up? Just curious if that is what they are doing to get so many users.

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      1 year ago

      What they’re doing is making it very easy to sign up. You just need to go to your Instagram and click a few buttons and you’ve created a threads account.

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        1 year ago

        Then my guess is a lot of users are seeing something new and clicking along out of curiosity. Then they walk away and don’t look at it again :-)

    • small44@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I believe that it’s creating the threads account based on your Instagram credentials just like you get signed up on many sites without your Google account