Threads overtakes X on mobile, but still lags far behind
TL;DR
Meta's Threads now has more daily mobile users globally than X, reaching 141.5 million vs. 125 million as of early January. It overtook X in late 2023 after steady growth, not due to recent controversies, though X still leads in the US.
After launching almost three years ago, Meta's Threads is now reportedly attracting more daily mobile users than rival platform X. According to Similarweb data shared by TechCrunch, Threads has 141.5 million daily active iOS and Android global app users as of January 7th, compared to 125 million users for Elon Musk's mobile platform.
Similarweb reports that Threads actually overtook X sometime between late October and early November after a consistent period of growth, meaning this milestone wasn't suddenly achieved in reaction to recent Grok-related controversies. X still has more mobile users than Threads in the US, according to Similarwe …