July 3 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' ( META ) newest social media

offering, Threads, has over 175 million monthly active users,

CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Wednesday, two days ahead of its

first anniversary.

"What a year," said Zuckerberg in a Threads post. In

February, he had put the Threads MAU figure at more than 150

million.

The monthly user count gives only a limited picture of the

popularity of Threads, which has not revealed key metrics like

the daily active user count and average time spent per user.

A challenger to Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter,

Threads hit app stores on July 5 last year and garnered 100

million users in less than a week.

The initial surge was partly because of an easy way for

users of the popular platform Instagram to set up Threads

profiles. Some early users subsequently dropped off.

Threads does not have advertising and, as such, makes little

to no money for Meta. The platform recently came on the

Fediverse, a group of social media sites that support the

ActivityPub protocol and whose users can interact across those

platforms.