This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads
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Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?
Even allowing people to follow that account?
Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.
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Ah. The Google+ approach to signing up "users".
Yeah all that mess with Google+ and all that came out of it was we lost the + operator in Google Search.
Added to my circle!
But you can't close your threads account without closing your instagram account.