January 25, 2026 Priya Shah – Business EditorBusiness
Meta-owned social media platform Threads is reportedly surpassing X in terms of mobile usage.
Threads now has more daily usage on mobile devices than Elon Musk’s X,TechCrunch reported Sunday (Jan. 18), citing data from Similarweb.
Meta introduced Threads, a text-based app seen as its answer to Twitter/X, in 2023.Although X, formerly Twitter, still beats Threads among web-based users, the Threads mobile app has seen a continued increase in daily active users over the last several months, the report said.
The data shows that Threads had 141.5 million daily active users on iOS and Android as of Jan. 7, following months of growth, while X has 125 million daily active mobile users. by contrast, threads has had little traction among web-based users, while X’s audience on that front is around 150 million user visits each day.
According to the report, this growth seems to be due to longer-term trends, rather than a response to recent controversies surrounding X. These include the discovery that some users were employing Grok, the
