YouTube fame MrBeast is first to get one million followers on Threads

YouTube fame Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast has reportedly become the first person to hit a million followers on Meta’s newly launched Twitter rival Threads.

YouTube fame Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast has reportedly become the first person to hit a million followers on Meta’s newly launched Twitter rival Threads.

Meta’s brand new social media app is also estimated to have amassed more than 44 million users since its launch a little over 24 hours ago.

The 25-year-old YouTuber reached a million followers at 9.42 am EST on Wednesday, July 6, just a few hours after joining the app. Being the first individual to reach this milestone has earned MrBeast a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, AP reported.

A video from Guinness World Records shows the exact moment that MrBeast’s 999K Threads followers turned to 1 million.

But when the record-keeping company tweeted the video, MrBeast responded: “Shhhhh, don’t let the twitter police know I’m cheating on them.”

MrBeast’s bio on Threads reads: “Future Threads CEO”, and he earned a following of 1 million after posting just three times.

What is Threads that MrBeast is on?

Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries – including the US, India, Britain, Japan and Australia.

But it is notably unavailable in the European Union.

New arrivals to the platform include celebrities like Oprah, pop star Shakira and chef Gordon Ramsay.

The new short-format social media app, which Meta says provides “a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations,” is launched at a time when many are looking for Twitter alternatives to escape Elon Musk’s raucous oversight of the platform since acquiring it last year for $44 billion.

But Meta’s new app has also reportedly raised data privacy concerns.