Overview
- Threads reached about 141.5 million daily active users on iOS and Android versus X at roughly 125 million as of January 7, 2026, according to Similarweb.
- X remains far larger on the web, drawing about 145–150 million daily visits compared with roughly 8.5–9 million for Threads as of mid‑January.
- Analysts describe a months‑long trend favoring Threads on mobile rather than a short‑term spike, with X still holding a narrow U.S. mobile lead that Similarweb says is shrinking.
- Regulators are probing xAI’s Grok after users generated non‑consensual sexualized images, with an investigation by California’s attorney general and others, and X has limited image generation features.
- Appfigures reports Bluesky saw a near 50% jump in iOS installs in the week starting January 7, coinciding with heightened attention to Grok‑related content issues on X.