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Meta-owned app Threads has seen a surge in activity in Taiwan, while it faces a dwindling user base in the US. Its newfound popularity is suggested to be due to a presidential election.<\/p>\n
While Threads boasted impressive results following its launch<\/a> on July 6, 2023, with over 10 million people registering in just seven hours, it has since seen a substantial decline.<\/a><\/p>\n Users are now spending a mere average of three minutes a day on the app in contrast to rival X which sees an average of 31 minutes per day on the platform.<\/p>\n Threads have had a second wind in one East Asian country though, with the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election said to have given it another shot.<\/p>\n Austin Wang who studies social media in Taiwan has traced the platform\u2019s rise to November of last year. Speaking to MIT Technology Review<\/a>, he said: \u201cMany (worried) pan-green supporters noticed that their complaints on politics were promoted to more readers on Threads than any other social media platforms (especially Facebook and Instagram)\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cSo more and more pan-green supporters gathered to Threads and used it as a mobilization tool.\u201d<\/p>\n Although the election concluded in mid-January, other political figures are said to have reactivated their Threads accounts to join the conversation.<\/p>\n This has resulted in Threads<\/a> being the most downloaded social network app in both Apple and Android app stores in Taiwan on almost every day of the past three months.<\/p>\n Wang goes on to say that there are two major demographics among Taiwan\u2019s Threads users today \u2013 the pro-green votes and younger students in middle school and high school: \u201cIn recent weeks, there is a considerable amount of discussion on how to choose colleges, majors, and even high schools.\u201d<\/p>\n Meta has long come under fire when it comes to political topics. Just two months ago, in February, it announced the development of an opt-out setting to limit political content visibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n This has been added to the \u2018Content Preferences\u2019 section under account settings on Instagram and will follow through to Threads as well.<\/p>\n This will give users the chance to reduce political content from people they don\u2019t follow if they choose to.<\/p>\n Featured Images: Photo by Azamat E<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThreads and Taiwan politics<\/b><\/h2>\n