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Threads Is Generating 8.3X More Engagement Than Twitter

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Careers, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Neil Patel and Eric Siu talk about why Meta’s Threads is getting a lot of attention right now and how you should maximize it for your brand.  TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:00] - Is Threads better than Twitter? [01:31] - Neil Patel performed an engagement disparity test between Threads and Twitter. [02:20] - What is the reason behind the current surge in attention towards Threads? [04:10] - How can you maximize Threads’ organic reach as a brand-new platform [05:30] - You’re missing a lot of things if you’re not using Threads This podcast is on our Youtube Channel. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/Qyckt7WXTxA Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Don’t forget to help us grow by subscribing and liking on YouTube! Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us:  Single Grain << Eric's ad agency NP Digital << Neil's ad agency Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

All right, so we are going to talk about how Threads is generating 8.3x more engagement than

0:06.4

Twitter.

0:07.4

So I'm going to let Neil take this one away.

0:09.7

So I've been traveling when Credds first came out but...

0:13.4

Dreds, not Treds.

0:15.8

What did you say?

0:16.5

Threads not Treds.

0:18.0

That's what I said, no?

0:18.9

She said Treads.

0:20.0

All right, I'll go with you.

0:21.3

So, um, I was traveling when threads first came out and for the first few days I wasn't on and my team signed me up.

0:29.7

Then over the weekend I started using it and it became a rabbit hole for me because anything that's new and marketing

0:35.2

I kind of just get addicted and I spend a little bit too much time on so I probably spent three four hours

0:40.0

easily over the weekend and I wasn't just looking at my account because I

0:45.1

started posting some of the same stuff I post on Twitter and LinkedIn on

0:48.2

threads to see the difference in engagement and I was mainly comparing Twitter

0:52.4

with threads and then I started looking at all these engagement. And I was mainly comparing Twitter with Threads.

0:53.4

And then I started looking at all these other people that are on

0:57.6

threads that are also on Twitter, which is the majority of the people.

1:00.8

And I also started looking at the content that they're posting on threads versus

1:04.0

Twitter and funny enough a lot of people are posting the same type of content not

1:08.1

everyone and I started comparing their follower ratios because most people don't have the same amount of

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