Comment by famouswaffles

>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.

How does that make DAU/MAU growth meaningless ? Threads has special context. That's it. Almost all the other software applications that orbited that record are staples of internet life today. So because one entry had some special circumstances to take into account (that users weren't gained from scratch), the growth as a concept or comparison (for uses gained from scratch) is meaningless ? How does that make any sense ?

Also, yeah strong adoption (which is the real point here beyond just the growth) is a strong signal for satisfaction. It's very strange to claim most people don't like the output of what has half a billion weekly active users and is one of the most visited sites on the planet.

>Besides that being a wild jump on its own, it's incorrect.

It's not incorrect. Threads was the fastest to hit some early milestones (like 100M) sure but since growth stalled, ChatGPT is still the software application with the fastest adoption because it reached further milestones threads hasn't and may not reach.