American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, extra popularly referred to as MrBeast has set a Guinness World Record (GWR) for turning into the primary individual to achieve 1,000,000 fans on Meta’s newly-launched platform Threads. Easily surpassing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg relating to follower depend, the social media character completed this feat inside a couple of hours of becoming a member of the app on Thursday and by means of sharing simply 3 posts.
The 25-year-old’s success was once introduced by means of GWR on Twitter with a video appearing the precise second when his 999K Threads fans became to one million. At the time of scripting this file, the YouTuber had over 3 million fans.
“I feel like I’m cheating on Twitter by using this app,” the YouTuber joked on Threads after attaining the milestone. He later tweeted to GWR and mentioned, “Shhhhh, don’t let the twitter police know I’m cheating on them”.
His profile bio at the platform dubbed as ‘Twitter-killer’, states, “Future Threads CEO” and he additionally requested his fans in a publish whether or not Zuckerberg must make him its boss. He wrote, “Like this if @zuck should make me CEO.”
MrBeast is the sector’s most-subscribed YouTuber with a subscriber base of over 165 million on his channel. At provide, he has over 21 million fans on Twitter. However, this isn’t the primary account to breach the million mark. Accounts of Instagram and National Geographic had crossed the quantity previous, GWR famous.
Other early famous person customers of Threads come with Oprah, Shakira and chef Gordon Ramsay.
Threads, a text-based app constructed by means of Meta to rival Twitter, become to be had Wednesday night time to customers in additional than 100 nations – together with the USA, India, Britain, Japan and Australia. The Twitter rival has already racked up greater than 44 million customers since its release a bit over 24 hours in the past.