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Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?
Even allowing people to follow that account?
Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.
It’s funny how people continue to think that joining threads is optional.
Of course that's why they had so many new accounts so fast! And that's why removing the Threads account also deletes your Instagram one! No way a bad app like that, missing the basic features (front what I've read in reviews), would have so many users so fast!
Is this a reported news, or a speculation? Really curious, before I start going around, repeating it.
yuck!
big numbers for ego boosting headlines and ad sales
Not being up on (or caring about) what evil Meta is up to I was wondering how they got 90M users overnight, that splains it.
This seemed obvious the moment they said 10m accounts on launch. People aren't that proactive
Holy shit that's why they bundled it in with Instagram? So they can inflate the adoption rate?
They did this with Facebook accounts to instagram too. My brother has never downloaded instagram yet he's my top follow suggestion all the time and it just uses his Facebook profile picture automatically
I have only an Instagram account, checked just now with a friend who has instagram, Facebook, and now threads. He cannot find me on threads at all, so either this isn't done to EVERYONE on Instagram, or these are just baseless rumors being spread around.