MrBeast first YouTuber to get 1M followers on Threads

San Francisco: American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson aka ‘MrBeast’ has become the first person to hit one million followers on Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival. just hours after launch.
The 25-year-old YouTuber hit a million followers on July 6 at 9:42 a.m. EST, just a few hours after signing up for the app.
MrBeast has also earned a place in the Guinness World Records for being the first person to reach this milestone. Guinness World Records in a video on Twitter showed the exact moment when MrBeast’s 999K Threads followers turned to 1 million.
MrBeast replied, “Shhhhh, don’t let the Twitter police know I’m cheating on them”.
At the moment, MrBeast’s Threads account has over 2.7 million followers, while on Twitter he has over 21 million followers.
Threads became available on Wednesday to users in over 100 countries — including the US, India, Britain, Japan, and Australia.
Last year, MrBeast surpassed Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePie to become the most subscribed individual on YouTube.
Presently, MrBeast has over 164 million subscribers on YouTube while PewDiePie has over 111 million subscribers.