🆚 Threads vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Threads.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia.
- 🌍 Threads is more popular in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.
Threads
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About
Threads is a microblogging and social media platform from Meta designed for sharing text updates and participating in public conversations.
It requires either an 
Instagram or a 
Facebook account to sign up, allows posts up to 500 characters with photos, links, and videos up to 5 minutes, provides algorithmic and following-based feeds, and supports topic tagging and flexible reply permissions.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Taiwan in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Mexico in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in India in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.