# Threads Continues to Rise in Newest App Obtain Rankings

Whereas Meta hasn’t supplied any official replace on Threads’ lively person rely because the platform reached 200 million month-to-month lively customers in late July, the app does appear to be gaining momentum, primarily based on whole obtain numbers not less than.

As you’ll be able to see in this chart, printed by app analytics supplier AppFigures, Threads rose to sixth total, and second place on the iOS obtain charts in August, with 28 million cumulative downloads for the month.
Threads has been steadily climbing the obtain rankings, rising from eighth on the checklist again in January, to seventh in July. And now, it’s up at sixth within the whole cumulative downloads show, which would appear to recommend that Meta’s Twitter substitute is gaining traction, and step by step taking extra viewers share within the micro-blogging area.
As a result of Threads’ important competitor, in X, isn’t even listed in these prime rankings.
As of proper now, X is at the moment forty third on the overall obtain itemizing for iOS within the U.S., and 56th on Android. It’s ranked equally in different areas as properly, however then once more, the figures are primarily based on whole downloads, which suggests folks actively reloading the app to their system. And on condition that X has already been downloaded by thousands and thousands of individuals, that is probably not one of the best comparative indicator, given Threads is new.
But, on the identical time, Instagram, Fb and TikTok proceed to paved the way.
Nonetheless, at 500 million month-to-month actives, and 250 million each day customers, X continues to be a great distance forward of Threads in precise customers, and it stays a ordinary connector for a lot of, many individuals. It’s onerous to see Threads unseating X anytime quickly, however the traits do appear to be pointing to Threads powering as much as develop into an actual competitor to Elon Musk’s social venture.
X has additionally misplaced thousands and thousands of customers in Europe, in accordance with its personal reporting, whereas it was just lately banned in Brazil reducing off one other 20 million or so customers.
So whereas X is steadily shrinking, Threads is steadily rising, which may make Threads an even bigger consideration over time.
Once more, it is probably not fairly there but, however the numbers do recommend that Threads is steadily gaining traction, and could possibly be on monitor to exceed 300 million actives earlier than the yr is out.
Andrew Hutchinson