Here’s how you get 150 million “monthly” users and app downloads. Spam all 2 billion of your Instagram users with Threads posts in their feed which are then unwittingly followed leading to the app being downloaded and voila you’ve got a monthly user. Nobody is actually using Threads it’s such nonsense. .
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Most Downloaded iPhone Apps of 2025: ChatGPT, Threads, and Google
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I'm not sure why not? I know it's just my corner of the world, but I have never used X/Twitter, and none of friends or close family ever used it, pre or post Elon. Plenty use ChatGPT, though.
Meta's Threads has the potential to be a really viable alternative to X (formerly Twitter). It does need a few more refinements and ESPECIALLY better control by moderators to make it really viable. I'd like to see if increase its character count per post to 1,000 and possibly third-party moderators who have no political agenda to make it work.
I hope you've at least tried Stardew Valley, even if not on iOS. I'll never complain about Stardew Valley making a top list.
sorry, never even heard of it
Bingo. Anytime you go on instagram you get hit with ads for Threads and then if you click them you're prompted to download it to view it. No one is opening nor using Threads daily to check what's going on. Twitter/X is pretty much the only app of that type that gets any real use.
The list might be a little depressing, but it very much what would have been expected. It’s pretty much either what people use their phones for, or what is being carpetbombed at them.
Focusing on data, rather than speculation, Twitter and Facebook are not increasing their userbase, going by this data. Older users might be staying, but younger, newer users are not joining up.
Teenagers are obviously going elsewhere, and the teenagers of today are the adults of the near future.
I’d guess the download figures are accurate. Those figures don’t show if the apps are underused or removed from the device.
Or, like Facebook, people have simply given up on it. The elephant in the room is that the average age if Twitter and Facebook users has risen every year of these platform lives, and are more and more just slop and advertising. They’re quickly becoming „old man shakes fist at sky” compounds. Like Elon himself, it’s an aging userbase still desperately wearing teenage clothes.
Focusing on data, rather than speculation, Twitter and Facebook are not increasing their userbase, going by this data. Older users might be staying, but younger, newer users are not joining up.
Teenagers are obviously going elsewhere, and the teenagers of today are the adults of the near future.
Does that include bots (from Meta or otherwise)? Meta really do love their bots.
Threads has the greatest echo chamber among social apps ever that people can love or hate the exact same thing.
I’m surprised to see Threads rank so high as when I compare the same posts across social media platforms they seem to have little engagement on Threads. I suspect the popular Instagram promotes downloading it to its users, but like me they never use it after that.
Most people I know use several Google apps on their phone, and the gmail app seems to pretty popular.
Either way, where is this big button? I'm not using any extensions or an adblocker.
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Notice I went to maps.google.com. I deleted the Google Maps app many years ago when I quit Google–it is an evil company and I try to have as little as possible to do with them. Notice google still knows I downloaded the google app once and is trying to get me to download it again. I don't want to do that. This doesn't bother me all that often because I don't use Google Maps even on the web. However, there are times that websites will have a link to Google Maps and I will get an annoying download prompt when I click on their address link.
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