I smell an antitrust lawsuit coming up. Whether we hate Twitter or not, they could have a valid case against Meta here as this shit is anti-competitive as fuck. If Elon is smart enough, and that's a big if, he could seize the opportunity to sue Meta over this and win. To just be able to recycle existing Instagram users gives Meta an unfair advantage over existing microblogging social media platforms.

Well, it's basically an extension to your insta account. So I imagine when you sign up, it sends requests to others you know to make it seem like everybody uses it.

big numbers for ego boosting headlines and ad sales

As horrible as this obviously is, it's also quite clever.

Is this a reported news, or a speculation? Really curious, before I start going around, repeating it.

yuck!

they can be sued for this right?

I have only an Instagram account, checked just now with a friend who has instagram, Facebook, and now threads. He cannot find me on threads at all, so either this isn't done to EVERYONE on Instagram, or these are just baseless rumors being spread around.

They did this with Facebook accounts to instagram too. My brother has never downloaded instagram yet he's my top follow suggestion all the time and it just uses his Facebook profile picture automatically

Not being up on (or caring about) what evil Meta is up to I was wondering how they got 90M users overnight, that splains it.

This seemed obvious the moment they said 10m accounts on launch. People aren't that proactive

Holy shit that's why they bundled it in with Instagram? So they can inflate the adoption rate?