This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads - eviltoast

Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

  • Meruten@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    This feature can be achieved very easily by them without making accounts. They already have a list of Instagram usenames. When a new user makes an account on Threads, check the username against a simple list of Instagram usernames and if it matches, throw an error stating the username is not available.

    Why does that person need to have an actual account on Threads?

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      1 year ago

      Why does that person need to have an actual account on Threads?

      They don’t. They just use their existing Instagram account.