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Show HN: I built a dashboard tracking the number of Threads users

by ckardat123 on 7/6/23, 11:56 PM with 23 comments

  • by skizm on 7/7/23, 12:43 AM

    This can be a cool German tank problem type deal where you have a bunch of random numbered accounts and don't know what the top numbered account is and have to estimate how many total accounts there are assuming the accounts are numbered 1 to N.
  • by ckardat123 on 7/6/23, 11:57 PM

    Note: These numbers are estimates which are generated using the Threads account numbers shown on Instagram pages.

    This page is currently being updated semi-manually, which may cause delays in the estimated user count.

  • by redox99 on 7/7/23, 12:37 AM

    I think a better (but harder to obtain) metric would be activity. Given that people use their Instagram account, the user account isn't too relevant since you don't really need to sign up.
  • by 32gbsd on 7/7/23, 12:07 AM

    That's alot of accounts that will be dead in a week. I am not signing up for anything else. Too hard to get rid of once you create them.
  • by quickthrower2 on 7/7/23, 6:57 AM

    The free advertisement they get by potentially being sued by twitter surely helps https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66129215
  • by leavenotracks on 7/7/23, 12:15 AM

    Anyone have a view of the percentage of accounts that are likely to be fakes/bots? Is this even a thing? Or is there some sort of verification on sign-up?
  • by acover on 7/7/23, 1:33 AM

    When will it surpass Twitter? 3 weeks?
  • by sys_64738 on 7/7/23, 12:18 AM

    So it's just screen scraping Instagram numbers? Isn't this something that Elon got grumpy about so wonder what Zuck thinks of it.
  • by kanaey on 7/7/23, 12:21 AM

    Yahoo