Threads Usage Overtakes X on Mobile

[p4r4d0x]

Both are controlled by absolutely disgusting people. There's little moral high ground using Threads over X.

 

[Tr55]

I find these usage figure suspicious.

Threads has almost no cultural effect, no-one cares what you write on threads, it is not in any way part of the zeitgeist of world ideas.

 

[Coleman2010]

bro no one actually uses threads. its only activity is due to instagram users being pushed to view a thread.

X is the goat of social media.

(haters gonna go ham on this post)

Our you're aged out of it.

 

[Gewurtz66]

I guess I count as a user of mobile Threads, when I accidentally press the button on Instagram and get switched into the app

 

[Abydos]

ok, I'll own up, I've never posted on either -- slashdot yes, David weber forums yes, but those nope

 

[psxp]

I stopped using that twiter thing, and never used this thread thing.. not my scene .. too much crap there

 

[boswald]

Threads is the modern day Google+.

Hey, I am one of the five people who actually liked that service.

 

[CarlJ]

Do we still need “formerly Twitter”? It’s been years.

Yes, because the name X is stupid, and ridiculously generic.

 

[jimbobb24]

X is great but needs training. I use it professionally and it take a few days of telling it you don't want to see any political post and then...they all disappear and only things I want to see show up. It's pretty useful to follow developments in my field and Apple stuff and FSD and AI stuff once you tell it consistently I don't want the politics stuff.

 

[rman0726]

People who use Instagram. Instagram displays Threads posts in the Instagram feed so one click you're in Threads.

I think that is the key. They do the same with Facebook. I sometimes click on the comments button because I can’t help myself and occasionally without even realizing it’s a threads post, I click, and oops I’m now a Threads “active user”. Lol

 

[Sasha-1]

Meta's Threads has now reportedly surpassed its rival X (formerly Twitter) in daily mobile usage globally.

Market intelligence firm Similarweb (via TechCrunch) reports that Threads recorded 141.5 million daily active users across iOS and Android worldwide as of January 7, 2026, compared with 125 million daily active mobile users for X.

The data indicates that Threads crossed ahead of X on mobile sometime between late October and early November 2025, following a prolonged period of steady growth rather than a sudden spike. While X continues to attract more mobile users than Threads in the United States, Similarweb estimates that X's U.S. daily active mobile user base has declined significantly, falling to roughly half of what it was a year earlier, as Threads continues to gain ground.

Despite Threads' gains on mobile, Similarweb's data shows that X maintains a decisive lead when web usage is included. As of January 13, 2026, X was attracting an estimated 145.4 million daily web visitors, compared with approximately 8.5 million daily web visitors for Threads. When mobile and web audiences are combined, X is estimated to exceed 270 million daily users, while Threads totals roughly 150 million daily users across platforms.

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I just can't believe some people still use anything from Musk.