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Fri. 07/07 – I’ve Never Seen Anything Like Threads

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🗓️ 7 July 2023

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It’s been my job for over a decade now to analyze the competitive landscape of the tech industry, and I’ve simply never seen anything like what Threads has achieved in less than 48 hours. Though, Elon is threatening to sue. Uber, DoorDash and GrubHub are suing NYC. Volkswagen is rolling out its self-driving cars. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Earnin App (type in Techmeme under PODCAST when you sign up) Links: Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App, Raising Twitter’s Ire (NYTimes) Zuck's Threads halo (Axios) Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads (Semafor) OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available (TechCrunch) Food-Delivery Companies Sue New York City Over Minimum Pay Law (NYTimes) Volkswagen's Self-Driving Cars Begin Testing In Texas (Jalopnik) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (The Atlantic) The Man Who Broke Bowling (GQ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, July 7th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:08.8

It's been my job for over a decade to analyze the competitive landscape of the tech industry and I've just never

0:14.8

seen anything like what Threads has achieved in less than 48 hours though Elon is threatening

0:20.6

to sue.

0:21.6

Uber, Dordash, and Grub Hub are suing.

0:23.7

New York City, Volkswagen is rolling out itself driving cars.

0:26.4

And of course, the weekend long rate suggestions.

0:28.9

Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech. So as of right now, though this is sort of unconfirmed, I believe

0:38.9

threads has passed 70 million user sign-ups, which given that we still aren't even 48 hours into

0:45.4

this means that threads has surpassed chat gp-GPT as the fastest growing product

0:49.7

ever or maybe that's GPT just generally.

0:53.0

Will Threads be at 100 million users by Monday, by tomorrow?

0:58.0

Quoting the New York Times.

1:00.0

In less than a day, Threads, which is aimed as a rival to Twitter, appears to have taken the

1:05.2

crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever.

1:07.8

It easily outstripped ChatGPT, the Chatbot, which was downloaded one million times within its

1:12.2

first five days, according to Open AI,

1:14.8

ChatChiP's Maker.

1:16.5

And Threads is on pace to exceed 100 million users within two months, a feat achieved only

1:21.1

by ChatGPT, according to the analytics firm similar web and

1:24.8

quote I've simply never seen anything like this I've never seen a product

1:29.4

adopted this quickly but again I did kind of call it. Someone go back to that episode last year

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