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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by renewedrebecca »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #228
vineyardmike wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instagram has a web version, and the ability to HTML embed instagram posts, so it seems likely that this will have a web version.

Instagram's web version has a serious bug that when you scroll down fast enough, it constantly loads the same content again and again. This bug has been there for months and basically renders it unusable.

To get around it, actually grab the scrollbar with your mouse until you see new content. Scrolling will work again work a while then.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by bmarquez »

sixQuarks wrote: post #263
mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…

Couldn’t disagree with you more. Threads will be a flop. The accounts that are most active/followed on Twitter are not the type of people that have Instagram accounts. People with large followings are not going to simply switch, no matter how much they hate Elon.

I share your sentiment. I use Twitter for business and Instagram (before I deleted it) for friends. I follow very different accounts on each. I'm not going to mix business and pleasure so to speak, especially with Meta's poor privacy reputation.

And for people who have strong negative opinions on Musk, most of them hate Zuckerberg too. For them, Threads might have a better chance if it was a non-Meta product.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by rodgerd »

babl-yc wrote: post #111
mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…

The key thing for me is whether it's really a text focused app or they ruin it by trying to cross promote Instagram/Reels and turn it into a mindless time suck. If they get the little details right, I see this as the only real competition to Twitter right now. After trying Mastodon for a few months, it's certainly not it.

If?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by romwell »

russ wrote: post #339
mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…

There’s a big graveyard of products/companies that have tried to kill Larry over the years. Meta has been trying since 2009. Back then, a former, well-known Facebook employee once told me not to join Twitter (thankfully, I didn’t listen). He said they, “have a wall at the office with a list of all the things Twitter does well. Every week someone checks another item off. We’re going to kill Twitter.” This moment is pr…

This would not be Meta killing Twitter, as much as Twitter doing a seppuku and Meta walking over Twitter's corprse.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by ggasp »

keyle wrote: post #189

Wait, where is the web version? A big part of twitter is the web client... and embedded tweets all over the internet. Did they start this product by cloning instagram and removing the image centric approach? Why is this not a website first? My gut feel is that this competes as much with instagram as it does with Twitter.

Threads.net https://www.threads.net/

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by TheCleric »

dhruval wrote: post #226
mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…

I am willing to take the other side of this bet. Not because I love twitter but rather because of the following 1.Network effects are just that powerful. 2. This looks like a group chat killer rather than a Twitter killer. So I think the blue bird will go on to live a rather long life.

The blue bird is going to die soon with Musk at the helm. He only seems to make decisions in the dumbest and most haphazard ways possible.

That's not to say that something else will kill it. It's more likely that for most folks, they'll just stop or shift to something different that's not like Twitter (e.g., Instagram).

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by sgc »

jeremyjh wrote: post #313
astrange wrote: post #267

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Nobody uses hashtags anymore. You can actually tell when someone is a clueless LinkedIn refugee because they hashtag random words in their sentences.

Interest groups do.

It's a good way to follow Ukrainian news, for example (#ukraine, #ukrainewar). It definitely has its place.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by frankacter »

john_max_1 wrote: post #198
vineyardmike wrote: post #192

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How was messenger an acquisition? wasn't it simply taking FaceBook Chats and making it a standalone app? It seems that meta just has a very curated list of products, and most seem to be hits, and most seem to be regularly iterated upon. > Facebook has DNA to optimize feeds. Isn't that the exact thing that Threads would need to succeed? It's a new feeds-based app, piggybacking their existing social graph. That means y…

Facebook Messnger was a service named Beluga - https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/facebook-beluga/

>Facebook Messnger was a service named Beluga

Facebook Messenger existed prior to the acquisition. Beluga was a mobile only product that was essentially an acquihire of the 3 member team to work on the existing Messenger mobile platform.

>Facebook was all-in on Messenger as a platform. The project is gone as well.

Facebook Messenger platform is still very much alive and well in both the games and the support / chat bot / reservations space.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by shivz45 »

skiman10 wrote: post #232
delecti wrote: post #155

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Agreed. I think this succeeds or fails based on the ability to follow different kinds of things from users separately. If I can follow someone's Threads and not their Reels, I'd be glad to have such an easy migration path off of Twitter (I'm having a lot of fun on bluesky, but it's not ready). I'm not optimistic about that though, because you already can't choose to not follow reels separately from pictures.

I never got a Bluesky invite and I've seen a couple comments mentioning "it's not ready" so I'm wondering why people keep saying that? It has been in development for a while, so I would assume it is ready at this point in time.

Bluesky is where ppl bash twitter and no other comments
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