Meta’s new social media platform Threads has gained over 100 million users since its launch last week, according to figures published by data tracker firm Quiver Quantitative.

Reaching the 100 million mark in just five days, Threads has beaten the two month period it took OpenAI's ChatGPT to gain the same number of users.

Threads is still behind Twitter on audience numbers, with figures from statista revealing that the rival platform had 368,000 million active users as of December 2022.

Last week Twitter threatened legal action after accusing Meta of stealing trade secrets to develop its new app Threads.

In a letter shared by news platform Semafor, Twitter attorney Alex Spiro told Meta founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg that the company has serious concerns that the social media giant has engaged in “systematic, wilful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”.

Spiro wrote that Meta had hired dozens of former Twitter employees who continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.

The Play Store listing describes Threads, which has accumulated 30 million users in just three days, as a place where communities come together to discuss everything from the "topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow".

Users can sign into Threads through Instagram, with users able to post ‘threads’ and have other users respond to them on an interface similar in style to Twitter.

When asked whether Threads will become bigger than Twitter, last week Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg said: “It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will.”

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