News TV channels in Taiwan that I usually watch, very often use videos from Threads for local news reporting (stuff sent in by the public). X-originated ones pretty much disappeared for the same use. This doesn't account for millions of users (by a long shot), but definitely a noticeable shift.

Did you ever think that "what you see" is not the whole reality or even close to important to the state of the world?

You probably aren't their target demographic. Are you from the US or from EU?

It's probably country specific. The country you live in might be on Twitter, but many are on Threads.

Social networks live on network effects. You don't choose a social network, you just go where everyone else is.

It's just a bias of what cultures you are more exposed to. The same with messaging apps, different societies huddled in different apps.

[1]:

  name    tfic%  pop        pop%   B/D
  Taiwan  0.1056 23112793   0.0028 37.61x
  Japan   0.0822 123103479  0.0150  5.50x
  Vietnam 0.0413 101598527  0.0123  3.35x
  USA     0.0367 347275807  0.0422  0.87x
  Brazil  0.0229 212812405  0.0259  0.89x
  Others  0.7112 7423710059 0.9019  0.79x
  (total) 0.9999 8231613070 1.0000  1.00x

Looks like, Taiwan took it, maybe Japan too.

I'm guessing that the moral of the story is, social media cannot be multilingual/multinational. Either one culture dominates, or the system don't work.

1: https://www.similarweb.com/website/threads.net/#geography

edit: edited to add column C, D, E; Column E, B/D, is traffic divided by population count as share of world's, which I think should indicate how much differences in popularity there is.

Can you go into more detail?