ByConor Murray,
Forbes Staff.
Threads, Meta’s text-based social media platform, widened its lead over Elon Musk’s X in the first few weeks of 2026 after first surpassing the rival platform in daily active users on mobile devices late last year, according to data shared with Forbes by Similarweb.
Threads had an average of 143.2 million daily active users on mobile devices worldwide in the first 13 days of January, according to Similarweb, a considerable lead over X, which had an average of 126.2 million daily active users over the same period.
X has lost users over time, with its number of daily active users dropping 11.9% year-over-year as of January, while Threads has made massive gains, recording a 37.8% year-over-year boost in users as of January.
