Zuckerberg’s Threads starts 2026 ahead of Musk’s X in user count

Meta’s text-based social media platform Threads has outpaced its main competitor, X, which was previously known as Twitter. The platform has around 320 million active users and an average of 143 million active users on mobile as of January 2026, according to Forbes, citing Similarweb data. In December 2025, more than 30 million new users […]