Threads
Meta, Menlo Park, California, United StatesThreads 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.
The platform is also being integrated with the decentralized "fediverse" using the 
ActivityPub protocol, enabling interoperability with other fediverse servers such as 
Mastodon and 
WordPress (with the ActivityPub plugin installed), where users can follow accounts and interact with posts across platforms.
According to our data, Threads ranks 18th among the social media platforms we track.
It has 0.5% of the social media market share and is detected on 0.3% of all websites.
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Threads is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Social Media
- Rank: 18
- Market share: 0.5%
🏆 Threads 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.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Malaysia in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Pakistan in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Egypt in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
⚡ Sites Using Threads
We have data on 9,346 websites that use the Threads social media platform. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Threads is yahoo.com.
| # | Website | 🔗 | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yahoo | #16 | United States | American English | |
| 2 | linktr.ee | #44 | Australia | English | |
| 3 | guardian_us | #55 | English | ||
| 4 | verge | #56 | American English | ||
| 5 |  usatoday.com |
usatoday | #113 | American English | |
| 6 | uspostalservice | #200 | United States | English | |
| 7 | #260 | United States | English | ||
| 8 | latimes | #282 | United States | American English | |
| 9 | letterboxd | #410 | English | ||
| 10 | mailerliteofficial | #411 | English | ||
| 11 | kleinanzeigen_official | #570 | Germany | German | |
| 12 | delgarm | #762 | Iran | Persian | |
| 13 | #773 | Vietnam | Vietnamese | ||
| 14 | nhl | #1,017 | United States | English | |
| 15 | olympics | #1,150 | United Kingdom | American English | |
| 16 | myudn | #1,170 | Taiwan | Chinese | |
| 17 | umntwincities | #1,264 | United States | English | |
| 18 | protonprivacy | #1,267 | Switzerland | English | |
| 19 | ohiogov | #1,294 | United States | English | |
| 20 | cbssports | #1,310 | United States | English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Threads:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Threads are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- United States 30.5%
- United Kingdom 9.5%
- Germany 6.8%
- Japan 4.3%
- France 4%
- Brazil 3.6%
- India 3.4%
- Spain 3.4%
- Italy 3.2%
- Other 31.3%
Most Threads users speak English, Spanish, or German.
- English 64.8%
- Spanish 5.9%
- German 4.8%
- Japanese 3.3%
- Portuguese 3.3%
- French 3.1%
- Italian 2.3%
- Chinese 1.7%
- Dutch 1.2%
- Other 9.6%
The Threads social media platform is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 47.6%
- .org 10.7%
- .de 3.4%
- .net 3.2%
- .co.uk 2.1%
- .com.br 1.9%
- .it 1.6%
- .fr 1.4%
- .edu 1.1%
- Other 27%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Threads include business, education and reference, and blogs and wiki.
- Business 10%
- Education/Reference 9.7%
- Blogs/Wiki 8.8%
- General News 7.4%
- Entertainment 7.3%
- Marketing/Merchandising 5.9%
- Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO 5.5%
- Online Shopping 4.7%
- Sports 4.5%
- Other 36.2%
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What is the company behind Threads?
Threads is owned by Meta Platforms, Inc., headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.
Is Threads free?
Yes, it is a free social media platform.
Which country uses Threads the most?
The majority of Threads users are from the United States.
Who uses Threads?
According to our data, Threads is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as yahoo.com,
linktr.ee, and
theguardian.com.
Is Threads used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by ohio.gov. In total, we found Threads on 38 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Threads?
Yes, quite a few! The most notable of these is umn.edu. Overall, we know of 103 academic websites in the United States that use Threads.
How does Threads compare to its competitors?
Threads is a fairly popular social media platform, ranking ahead of 69 other social media platforms we track.
What are the alternatives to Threads?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Threads may include 
X, 
Bluesky, and Micro.blog.
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🗃️ 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.