Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

Not having a news feed with just people I follow makes it near unusable. At the moment there is just too much garbage content from "influencers" cluttering the app, and very little you can do to curate it.

Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

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Post by pcurve » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:29 AM UTC

Still trying to figure out the 110MB download size.

Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

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Post by dvt » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:29 AM UTC

That feels oddly low. It was released at 5ish PM PST on a Wednesday, and considering they have literally all of Instagram + Facebook's userbase to push it on, it seems pretty low. The "sign up" was also just a "log in with FB/Instagram" button where the form was already auto-filled. So it's not like people had to convert, it's pretty much about as pure a product-market-fit test you can get.

Discoverability is also pretty awful with a ton of cringe "influencer content" polluting my main feed. I don't want to necessarily block MrBeast, I just don't want to see him when I don't follow him.

In any case, my prediction is that this experiment is going to be comparable to when they tried to copy Snapchat's story feature or when reels were meant to replace TikTok. These were nice cute distractions, but didn't materially impact Snapchat's business or TikTok's popularity. And in spite of their blunders, I think Twitter is here to stay.

Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

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Post by jfoutz » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:29 AM UTC

That's amazing.

The website seems to be crumbling a bit, everything redirects to get the app. Hope they can scale up a few instances so browsing returns.

Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

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Post by dukeofdoom » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:30 AM UTC

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Post by geenat » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:30 AM UTC

App required = not so sure about this.. not in a rush to try it out.