CALIFORNIA: Meta’s social media app Threads has overtaken Elon Musk’s X in day by day cell utilization, in keeping with a latest report.
In January 2026, Threads recorded 141.5 million day by day customers on iOS and Android gadgets, surpassing X, which had 125 million day by day cell customers.
Over the previous 12 months, Threads’ day by day consumer base has steadily elevated, whereas X has seen a gradual decline in cell engagement.
Each platforms had been roughly equal in consumer numbers in the course of the fall of 2025, however Threads has now pulled forward, aided by Meta encouraging Fb and Instagram customers to undertake the platform.
The report famous that whereas Threads has surpassed X on cell, X maintains a big lead on its net model.
Threads’ net day by day customers reached solely 8.5 million in January, in comparison with 145 million day by day customers on X’s net platform.
Earlier, simply because the digital world was settling into its morning scroll, a wave of frustration rippled throughout the globe. Elon Musk’s X platform, the social media big previously generally known as Twitter, instantly went darkish, leaving hundreds of customers looking at frozen feeds and clean screens.
Panic, confusion, and memes erupted on-line as customers struggled to entry their favourite corners of the platform.
In keeping with Downdetector, over 41,000 customers within the US reported points by 10:35 am ET, whereas hundreds extra throughout the UK, Canada, and India confronted related disruptions.
The outage affected each the X app and web site, with sections like “For You” and “Following” failing to replace or present new posts. Earlier this week, the platform skilled the same outage, peaking at greater than 28,300 reported points within the US and over 8,000 within the UK.
