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		dgrin91 on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Threads Surpasses 30M Signups I'm not a social media guy, I'm not going to use threads probably ever, and I understand that Threads is basically just an appendage out of Insta... But I still say hats off to the devs for making a product that scaled so well so quickly. How many day 1 launches fail due to servers buckling under the load? Props to you guys for a technical job well done.

gremlinsinc on July 6, 2023 [–]

to be fair, if load is just shared between Instagram servers, a lot of people are probably testing out threads and using Instagram less today. Though, I imagine twitters usage is dropping like a fly. How they retain any advertisers after this, I can't imagine.

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