As the first user to amass 1 million followers on Threads, MrBeast has created history.
On July 5, a brand-new social media app Threads, which competes with Twitter and is a text-based chat instrument grew to become dwell.
The YouTuber, whose actual identify is Jimmy Donaldson, gathered a considerable following in a few hours. He reached the milestone at 2:42 p.m. (BST) / 9:42 a.m. (EST) on 6 July.
He at present has 2.2M followers on Threads.
MrBeast and Mark Zuckerberg have been neck and neck within the race to 1,000,000 app followers all through the hours when Meta opened the door to Threads. Meta CEO has 1.7M followers on Threads.
Just 12 hours after the platform’s introduction, Threads surpassed 15 million customers, and never lengthy after that, the platform’s first 1,000,000 follower accounts began to seem.
MrBeast’s bio on Threads reads: “Future Threads CEO,” and after simply three posts, he already has over 1,000,000 followers.
He requested his followers to ‘like’ a put up in the event that they agreed that Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg ought to make him the app’s CEO.
MrBeast holds just a few different Guinness World Records titles which embrace having essentially the most subscribers for a single male on YouTube and being the highest-earning YouTube contributor (now) with an estimated $54 million (£40 million) in 2021.