Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by matthasfun » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #21

Network Effects > Privacy With all the privacy invasive things that Threads tracks people with on its app, this is still proof that network effects trump privacy any day when it comes to social networks. Privacy as a feature that Mastodon touts is simply and clearly not enough to sway normal users to use it, after many Twitter fuck ups by Elon and over 6 years of Mastodon's existence.

Yeah I was thinking the same. 2 million accounts in 2 hours is wild. Not surprising just wild to me.

According to https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount there are about 13m mastodon accounts across all instances.

Threads might pass this by the time I wake up.

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

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Post by yk » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC

relyks wrote: post #28

Is this working for people in Firefox? I can't get the site to work for me

Tried it, FF with NoScript, Disconnect and uBlock and that didn't work even if given site permissions for NoScript. (Didn't seem to be able to debug it quickly.)

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

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Post by firecall » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC

dvt wrote: post #7

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 pr…

I opened it and immediately saw a post from GaryVee.

Who was sanctimoniously instructing people to 'collectively be more civil'.

Not a platform I want to use, but the App seemed decent; smooth UI animations, clean interface, simple onboarding with an overall decent UX.

I think Instagram people who are Twitter curious will jump on it.

If they can get Celeb style Tweets and memes without having to interact with the Garbage Fire that is Twitter, then I think it's going to be a nice easy win for Meta.

Not a raging multi-billion dollar success like Instagram, but an OK casual slow burn that offers value to Instagram users.

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

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Post by pickingdinner » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC

geenat wrote: post #10

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

Especially another facebook app. Those in the category of "app only heavy social media consumers" have been addicted to tiktok for too long already. Any offering less than that by the place they left is not good enough.

And those like myself who are no longer interested in the current iteration of social apps do not need another offering from this iteration of social apps.

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

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Post by duped » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC

asadotzler wrote: post #31

Let's see, FB has about 2 billion daily actives, Insta has like 3 to 4 billion? Assume half of them are sleeping there should still be a couple billion Meta user online about now and only 2 million of them so far have downloaded it? We got 8 million downloads (not updates, full downloads) in one day back in the desktop era when there were only a couple billion people online in total. This feels pretty weak to me. I w…

People haven't written the bots yet

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

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Post by dvt » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #35

cottsak wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that mean? Doesn’t the blue tick verification on Twitter require a valid credit card ?

Threads copies verification from Instagram which is mostly celebrities, public figures, brands, etc. You may not agree with the choices of noteworthiness, but they are at least checked for validity. https://help.instagram.com/854227311295302 Twitter has verification which is "anyone with spare change who wants to shout louder than others".

You can pay for verification on Instagram as well. I had a blue checkmark last month when I kind of just paid for fun to see if it would increase engagement (I'm not an influencer or popular in the least, just have a few hundred followers). So I'd say Instagram/Threads' verification is equally worthless.

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

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Post by vehemenz » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC

dvt wrote: post #7

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 pr…

Marketers and influencers have a lot of pull, though. Journalists might follow if that's where the money is. When the journalists leave Twitter, it's over. Though personally I think Twitter was done once they got rid of verification.

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

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Post by 2h » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:43 AM UTC

> @zuck

seeing that freaks face made me physically shudder. If they were smart they would distance this product from him as much as possible. it should be painfully obvious that he is toxic for this and any brand.

pay him whatever, let him stay in charge, but please for the love of god STOP PUTTING him as the face of anything.

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

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Post by paxys » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:43 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #30

I wonder how much the threads.net domain cost Updated Date: 2023-04-07T13:53:29Z Creation Date: 1997-05-27T23:00:00Z

.net domains aren't all that valuable. Funny enough threads.com seems to be a random Slack clone which will probably get acquired by Meta down the line for their domain name.

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

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Post by okrad » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:43 AM UTC

dvt wrote: post #7

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 pr…

Lots of room for improvement like no multi account support, as you mentioned discoverability, and feed options.

I downloaded it directly from the App Store because I’ve heard about it through external channels. Are they somehow notifying users to check Threads via their other apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp)?