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didn’t set up any conversion events just wanted more visitors to my home page for SEO purposes

ser what does that mean? genuinely asking, how do direct clicks from Threads help your SEO purposes?

viewed as more of an expert by google if your domain is in demand and people stick around

how would google know that, if they're not coming from google itself? are you saying they're using google analytics that you've installed on your website in their SEO rankings, is this documented somewhere?

gotcha, do you use google analytics on this website?

A lot of SEO stuff is woo woo. Core thing is you want to be a domain expert and google looks at a few things for that. Anything to help works favourably.