GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA: With around 4.6 million followers on Twitter’s rival Instagram Threads, YouTube king Jimmy Donaldson aka 'MrBeast' has surpassed the app’s creator, Mark Zuckerberg, in terms of follower count. Not only this but with over 161 million followers, he continues to be the most successful individual creator on YouTube.
The significant accomplishment highlights YouTube King's enormous appeal and impact among social media users. Recently, a 25-year-old content creator even went as far as to jokingly say that he feels like he’s cheating on Twitter by using Threads.
'I feel like I'm cheating on Twitter by using this app'
In a thread posted by Mrbeast, just a few days after the Twitter rival's launch, he wrote, "I feel like I'm cheating on Twitter by using this app". Although the post was written in a humorous way, it managed to garner 260k likes along with several comments. Not only this, but Jimmy earlier posted a thread where he even celebrated its launching. He wrote, “I'm gonna give this Tesla to a random follower in 48 hours! Rethread so people are aware”. MrBeast also showed his likeliness to become the future CEO of Threads Instagram.
For context, Threads seem primed to confront Twitter in a way that other competitors like Mastodon and Bluesky were not able to. Threads enable users to upload a 5-minute video, links, and photographs in addition to 500 characters of text.
'Best quote till eternity'
There were several comments by Netizens on MrBeast's Thread. A user wrote, "It really does genuinely feel like we are cheating on twitter." A second user wrote, "Nah. Twitter is dead, I love the fresh thoughts and ideas on @threadsapp. It is creative and inspiring." A third user wrote, "I bet it feels good too! I already broke up with Twitter years ago, so I don't get the rush of cheating." A fourth user wrote, "Best quote till eternity." While a fifth user who seems to be an ardent supporter of Musk's Twitter wrote, "Isn't comfortable as like Twitter."
