Threads Usage Overtakes X on Mobile

Meta's Threads has present reportedly surpassed its rival X (formerly Twitter) successful regular mobile usage globally.


Market quality steadfast Similarweb (via TechCrunch) reports that Threads recorded 141.5 cardinal regular progressive users crossed iOS and Android worldwide arsenic of January 7, 2026, compared with 125 cardinal regular progressive mobile users for X.

The information indicates that Threads crossed up of X connected mobile sometime betwixt precocious October and aboriginal November 2025, pursuing a prolonged play of dependable maturation alternatively than a abrupt spike. While X continues to pull much mobile users than Threads successful the United States, Similarweb estimates that X's U.S. regular progressive mobile idiosyncratic basal has declined significantly, falling to astir fractional of what it was a twelvemonth earlier, arsenic Threads continues to summation ground.

Despite Threads' gains connected mobile, Similarweb's information shows that X maintains a decisive pb erstwhile web usage is included. As of January 13, 2026, X was attracting an estimated 145.4 cardinal regular web visitors, compared with astir 8.5 cardinal regular web visitors for Threads. When mobile and web audiences are combined, X is estimated to transcend 270 cardinal regular users, portion Threads totals astir 150 cardinal regular users crossed platforms.
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