"We're seeing more people coming back daily than I'd expected," Zuckerberg said.
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Zuck says Threads doing better than expected despite losing over half of users
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Threads are unraveling, but at a slower rate than light speed. This is good news! Please fund my alternate universe no one is interested in.
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A big take up followed by a significant dip, followed by a slow return as features improve seems logical.
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It is a shame that they went for the Facebook/Instagram model of aggressively capturing user data and trying to control your feed. Had they gone the Whatsapp route I would have given them the benefit of the doubt.
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Can't say I'm surprised, the majority of Threads content is just:
-Reposts of Twitter
-Accounts made by people stealing the identities of Twitter users
-Complaints about how Threads lacks a ton of Twitter's features
"We're notX[insert company name here]!" isn't a great long-term strategy.
-Reposts of Twitter
-Accounts made by people stealing the identities of Twitter users
-Complaints about how Threads lacks a ton of Twitter's features
"We're not
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Again, not a fan of Elon Musk when his actions are taken in aggregate...but if you hate him and X/Twitter more than you hate Zuckerberg and Meta/Facebook, I have to assume you're just not paying attention and/or your memory is very selective. I might have missed it, but I don't recall anyone ever accusing Twitter of destroying people's dreams of virtual reality, or, you know, enabling genocide.
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It's not surprising. The onboarding process is extremely easy for anyone with an Instagram account, but that also means new users have low investment. The app is a minimum viable product that still needs a handful of essential features before it's competitive.
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As Threads soars, Twitter rival Bluesky adopts a new personalized, algorithmic feed
The general trend in tech is that if your company is not run by a sociopath, your product should gradually get better as bugs get fixed and features get added.
The general trend in tech is that if your company is not run by a sociopath, your product should gradually get better as bugs get fixed and features get added.
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As I understand it, Threads is the answer to what Instagrammers have been asking for a while, a place to basically have some kind of micro-blog space for themselves and their communities.
I don't think it was ever meant to be a general purpose micro-blog platform for everyone, so it does make sense that most people who sign up decide to drop off.
It'll be interesting to see if it does stick around I suppose.
I don't think it was ever meant to be a general purpose micro-blog platform for everyone, so it does make sense that most people who sign up decide to drop off.
It'll be interesting to see if it does stick around I suppose.
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Never a Twitter user (although like some other things I did try it), so no interest an alternative.
Can't say my life has suffered.
Can't say my life has suffered.
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Threads doesn't really need users, it's coasting off the money generated by Facebook, Whatsapp, etc...
It's Twitter that needs users. Any amount of users migrating to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, etc... ensures it will go out of business.
It's Twitter that needs users. Any amount of users migrating to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, etc... ensures it will go out of business.
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Enshitification is driven by VC pressure to 100x investments, not by the temperament of the CEO.
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As as someone who just pressed the button because I use Instagram to promote. The week everyone signed up was when it seemed like there was no advertisement as long as you had enough people on your list that were feeding the stream. Now everyone's died off it's all random people. Like ALL random people. Unlike Instagram where it re-feeds you some old stuff and then random stuff.
To the use for a Microblogging site kind of dies off fast when your feed becomes everyone you don't know just because the people you do know aren't rabid posters.
Problem #2 is as far as i can tell. If the people weren't on your instagram when you joined. You have to manually go to the "add all" function again.
To the use for a Microblogging site kind of dies off fast when your feed becomes everyone you don't know just because the people you do know aren't rabid posters.
Problem #2 is as far as i can tell. If the people weren't on your instagram when you joined. You have to manually go to the "add all" function again.
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Moving from Twitter to Threads feels like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. If you refuse to use Mastodon, then you would be better off trying Bluesky or Spoutible.
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I am unfortunately chained to Whatsapp, since my sister was the first among us to get a smartphone back in the day and Whatsapp allowed her to get around texting limits. Our family chat has been around since before Zuck bought them out, and trying to move them off WA would be like trying to get Google Fiber installed in the average city.
Luckily, I deleted my Facebook account a decade ago, I own nothing with Oculus branding and I've never used Instagram. Unless there's some Nestle-level spider web of brands that are secretly held by Meta, I can otherwise avoid Meta pretty easily.
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In looking at how I used twitter, this is PROBABLY how most people use this kind of social media. They're NOT going to go on it EVERY DAY. Only when something of interest pops up, or if they have something to say.
If Facebook had the expectation that people who signed up for Threads would USE IT EVERY DAY, they had no clue how a messaging board like Twitter really works. It's different from Facebook's shit.
On MY twitter feeds, I only checked in if someone posted something and I got a notification. I'd also check in on other feeds if someone I was following posted something, and occasionally I'd click on a tweet in a news story.
IF that's typical of most users, then it would be misguided to expect people to engage with it every day.
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Default-inclusion of your existing Meta network was a bad call. I'd bet the overlap between most people's Facebook/Instagram network and Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon network can be counted on one hand
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Twitter is not just enabling, but actively supporting the trans genocide.
Not paying attention is an understatement, if you cannot see the campaign to exterminate people born trans and all lgbtq from daily life.
When it comes to genocide: Facebook turns a blind eye and cares only about making profit. Twitter purposely encourages it on decree of its new owner. They both suck, but the intention makes twitter worse in my eyes.
I am very happy not using either of them. Mastodon has grown to the point where I am getting more out of it than I ever got out of the others.
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I'm another one who launched threads, fiddled with it for a few minutes, found it annoying and filled with absolutely nothing aligned to any of my interests, and haven't opened it since.
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I’m not sure “if you ignore that Meta has every family conversation I’ve had for the past decade, I avoid Meta” is that impactful. They know all about you, they’re profiting off you, and that info is shared between Meta companies anyway.
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Musk literally reinstated the account of someone who posted CSAM. The same day the account was banned for posting CSAM.
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I'm entirely aware of that. The point is that WA is the primary method by which my immediate family stays in contact, and every effort I have made to move them to something like Signal or Telegram or something else has been met with "why does it matter?" Sure, I could try and go back to texting them via SMS, but the point is that I then get to miss out on seeing pictures of my nephews and nieces and sisters because my family refuses to stop using Meta services.
And it's still a far sight better than actually spending money on their services/products the way that Oculus users do.
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Meta generated $23B in profit last year alone. If you think they're killing off Threads any time soon, I've got a social network to sell you.
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This makes sense. Many of those people likely only signed up to have a look around. The onboarding was easy, and so the growth is not organic in nature. Things will probably stabilize over a few months.
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elaineonkauai
Smack-Fu Master, in training
Threads has to be accessed via Instagram (no, thank you), and is only available on a cell phone, but not on a desktop (also a no, thank you).
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Very much intentionally, and lied about how the account literally displayed the image to millions.
“Only people on our CSE team have seen those pictures,” Musk tweeted, referring to the company’s child sexual exploitation staff. “For now, we will delete those posts and reinstate the account.”
In fact, the image in question had drawn more than 3 million views and 8,000 retweets, according to Twitter statistics on a cached version of the tweet from Tuesday.
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The signups weren't people abandoning Twitter; they were people who already had Instagram accounts clicking a button to see what Threads was like. Because of the way Threads currently works, there has been less and less incentive to return over time.
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Not only that, the image was watermarked. Dude is monetizing child porn on Twitter.
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It's bad at that, though, is the thing. Instagram has hashtags that you can use to find "interesting" content. Threads doesn't. Threads also has no method to see posts from only people you follow, while Instagram does.
So yeah, I'm not surprised usage has fallen off. You open it, and you get a whole bunch of random tweets, mostly from brands advertising stuff. And since that's pretty much everyone's experience, the only posts on it are from people (well, brands and news sites, if we're honest) cross-posting the stuff they'd post to Twitter anyway, since no one is bothering to post stuff no one else will ever see anyway.
The lack of a way to search for posts or trending topics hurts in the same way. (At least, I think you can't search for topics, the search seems to be user accounts only.) There's basically no way to start a conversation about things you care about.
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