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| MrBeast became the first person to reach million followers on Threads |
Guinness World of Records recognised Jimmy Donaldson popular known as MrBeast as he became the first in the world to reached a million followers on the brand new social media app Threads – a text-based conversation tool to rival Twitter which went live on 5 July.
While technically his wasn’t the first account to reach the number, the others belonged to organizations like Instagram and National Geographic.
MrBeast’s bio on Threads reads: “Future Threads CEO”, and he earned a following of 1 million after posting just three times.
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| MrBeast became the first person to reach million followers on Threads |
His first post, shortly after the app went live, read: “Soooooo, how long until we’re also addicted to this app? Lol”.
He also invited his fans to like a post if they thought Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg should make him the app’s CEO.
MrBeast also cheekily joked: “I feel like I’m cheating on Twitter by using this app”.
Meta app Threads was pitched as a “friendly” alternative to Twitter, which has hit a few speed bumps ever since it was taken over by Space-X billionaire Elon Musk.
Like Twitter, users can publish posts including links, photos and videos, and others can like, reply and share them with their own followers.
Posts are limited to a maximum of 500 characters. And to make things easier for new users, people can sign in through Instagram, import their profile pictures and bios from the photo-sharing app, and even follow everyone they already follow on Instagram with the click of a button.
Threads is said to have quickly attracted more than 10 million users from its pool of the 2 billion Instagram accounts in existence.
Zuckerberg, who was the second person to reach 1 million Threads followers, wrote in a post: “The goal is to keep it friendly as it expands. I think it’s possible and will ultimately be the key to its success.
@guinnessworldrecords First person to reach one million followers on Threads 🧵 @MrBeast #threads #mrbeast #instagram #socialmedia ♬ original sound - Guinness World Records
“That’s one reason why Twitter never succeeded as much as I think it should have, and we want to do it differently.”
MrBeast, who is credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centre on expensive stunts and challenges, has a huge following across all of his social media channels.
38.5 million people follow him on Instagram and he has 165 million YouTube subscribers.
MrBeast holds a few other Guinness World Records titles, including highest-earning YouTube contributor (current) with a reported $54 m (£40 m) in 2021 and most subscribers for an individual male on YouTube.
Source: Guinness World Records
