Comment by famouswaffles
6 months ago
Asking your Instagram Users to hop on to your ready made TikTok Clone is hardly in the same sphere as spinning up that much users from nothing.
And while Threads growth and usage stalled, ChatGPT is very much still growing and has *far* more monthly visits than threads.
There's really nothing meaningless about ChatGPT being the 5th most visited site on the planet, not even 3 years after release. Threads doesn't make the top 50.
I think you just precisely explained why MAU / DAU growth is a meaningless metric in such discussions.
Seems like it's only meaningless if you ignore basic context.
What basic context is being ignored? Here's how the thread has gone:
"chatGPT has the fastest growing userbase in history which shows users really like the output!"
This unsourced (and wrong) claim was offered in rebuttal to another post saying people don't like the output of LLM's. This rebuttal offers DAU/MAU as a metric of how much people like the app, I presume, and thus the output of the app. Besides that being a wild jump on its own, it's incorrect. As I pointed out - threads almost immediately beat that DAU/MAU record, and I'd offer a claim it hasn't exactly been a tremendous success either in popularity or monetarily. Pointing out that they got that DAU/MAU by registering their own users to it is precisely the point that is being made - this metric is a meaningless gauge of how popular an app is, and especially when viewed from the context of this argument, which is whether the popularity of the app (as it relates to DAU/MAU growth) also suggests people love consuming the output of it.
No offense, but are you sure you're following this conversation?
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