Twitter killer ‘Threads’ reaches 100 million users in five days

Much to Elon Musk’s chagrin, Twitter rival Threads has crossed 100 million sign-ups and it’s been just five days since the micro-blogging website was launched.

Launched by Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Threads to announce that the steep climb to a 100 million was “mostly organic” and without much promotion.

It was only on Friday Zuckerberg announced that the app had crossed 70 million sign-ups, which he said was “way beyond our expectations.”

Climbing up the charts

At the time of writing this article, Threads achieved the highest number of downloads among free apps on Google…