YouTuber MrBeast becomes first to get 1 mn followers on Threads

American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson aka ‘MrBeast’ has turn out to be the first individual to hit a million followers on Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival. simply hours after launch.

The 25-year-old YouTuber hit one million followers on July 6 at 9:42 a.m. EST, only a few hours after signing up for the app.

MrBeast has additionally earned a spot within the Guinness World Records for being the first individual to attain this milestone. Guinness World Records in a video on Twitter confirmed the precise second when MrBeast’s 999K Threads followers turned to 1 million.

“The second @mrbeast reached a million followers on Threads… (sure, that is how we monitored the document),” it tweeted.

MrBeast replied, “Shhhhh, do not let the Twitterpolice know I’m dishonest on them”. At the second, MrBeast’s Threads account has over 2.7 million followers, whereas on Twitter he has over 21 million followers.

Threads grew to become obtainable on Wednesday to customers in over 100 international locations — together with the US, India, Britain, Japan and Australia.

Last yr, MrBeast had surpassed Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePie to turn out to be essentially the most subscribed particular person on YouTube.

Presently, MrBeast has over 164 million subscribers on YouTubewhereas PewDiePie has over 111 million subscribers.

(With inputs from IANS)