Fri. 07/07 – I’ve Never Seen Anything Like Threads
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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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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