Instagram Threads’ launch has been an overnight success, topping 100 million users within days of its arrival. Now, new data indicates the app has already achieved one-fifth of the weekly active user base of Twitter worldwide and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in the U.S., Truth Social, which […]
  • stopthatgirl7
    12•2 years ago

    I’m not surprised it’s so popular, but I’ll admit to being surprised it’s so popular in India and Brazil. Is Instagram really popular in those countries, or is it something else?

    • @perviouslyiner@lemm.ee
      8•2 years ago

      Facebook was subsidising the internet access? (search “internet.org” for why it’s controversial - when Facebook went offline people couldn’t even access government services or health services)

      • Jon Von Basslake
        -1•2 years ago

        people even shortened to Insta

        Everyone shortens it to insta, Facebook gets shortened to fb or face, youtube to yt or tube. Very few websites don’t get shortened, and those are usually the ones with short names, sometimes even monosyllabic names. Twitch, you can’t shorten that (at least no in any reasonable way), tiktok, and so on.

        The rest of your comment stands, I just took umbrage with your implication that Brazil is somehow different in shortening names of apps and platforms. They might do it more often than others, but they’re not unique or special just for doing it.