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STORY: From a fast-growing challenge to Twitter, to chaos in Hollywood, this is the Week in Numbers

100 million is how many people Mark Zuckerberg said had signed up to Threads within five days of launch.

That’s his new so-called Twitter-killer.

The numbers meant it dethroned AI phenomenon ChatGPT as the fastest-growing consumer app ever.

Over 375 million is how many items members around the world bought during Amazon’s Prime Day.

The e-commerce titan said those were record numbers for the annual two-day discount event.

Analysts said consumers were hungry for bargains amid a cost-of-living squeeze.

160,000 is how many film and TV actors could be going on strike.

That’s the membership of Hollywood’s biggest union, SAG-AFTRA, which is demanding a new deal on pay for the streaming era.

Union president Fran Drescher says the studios are behaving badly:

"I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things, how they plead poverty, that they're losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs."

With writers already on strike, the move could spell deeper chaos for the entertainment industry.

12.4% was the slump in Chinese exports in June.

That was the sharpest drop since the onset of the global health crisis three years ago.

The number added to jitters over the global economy, and raised pressure on Beijing to step in with more stimulus measures.

And $77 billion is the annual sales target LG Electronics wants to hit by 2030.

But the South Korean giant doesn’t want to rely on consumer gadgets any more.

It’s eyeing big growth in car parts, EV charging and digital healthcare.