
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
By all measures, Meta’s Threads app had a very good year. The app was Apple’s second-most-downloaded iOS app of the year, trailing only ChatGPT. Threads now has 400 million monthly and 150 million daily active users.
« There are consumers who are ravenous to consume the content. »
That growth is still coming mainly from Meta’s other platforms. « We do a lot of work in Instagram and Facebook to show off what’s going on in Threads, » Connor Hayes, the head of Threads, told me this week. The playbook: s …