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 vehemenz » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:46 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

I'd be surprised if it was more than $20k. Maybe in the $3-10k range? Seems to be the going rate. .Nets usually aren't that valuable, but I suppose if you have the network of Meta you can _make_ anything valuable.

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

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Post by impissedoff1 » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:47 AM UTC

How about we not support data mining and go to Lemmy?

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

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Post by re » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:47 AM UTC

relyks wrote: post #28

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

Disable "Enhanced Tracking Protection" for the domain, since it needs to load scripts from fbcdn.net domains.

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

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Post by LeoPanthera » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:47 AM UTC

I signed up. And the first thing I saw was a whole bunch of posts from people I don't follow.

They had the opportunity to learn directly from Twitter's mistakes, and they failed right from the start.

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

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Post by vehemenz » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:48 AM UTC

yalogin wrote: post #53

How is threads going to be different from Instagram? The tools available for content creators will be different but if I am just browsing they should be similar, no?

It's a separate app like Twitter, mostly text with some photos instead of all photos.

The list of people you follow is also different (important).

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

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Post by u2077 » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:48 AM UTC

Feels like they were too eager to scoop up Twitter refugees. The platform is still missing basic features and new users turn away immediately. Nobody’s going to join a platform and then keep their account open for 6 months while the platform plays catch-up. The launch would have been much more successful if they waited another month. I understand this is a peak time to capture former Twitter users, but in the long run it may have been a mistake. Will be interesting to see how they market it as things develop.

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

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Post by joegahona » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:48 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…

Are there large banners or advertisements on Instagram or Facebook pushing people to use Threads? (I’m on neither.) A few more things that might affect signup numbers: Threads requires an app to use, and it’s not available in the EU yet. Also the announced go-live was tomorrow.

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

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Post by colesantiago » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:49 AM UTC

edandersen wrote: post #54

Whats the consensus over on Mastadon at the moment? Will the major Mastodon instances block federation with Threads purely out of spite I wonder.

We know that Mastodon.social will not.

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

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Post by impissedoff1 » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:49 AM UTC

How is this any better than twitter when you still have to log in?

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

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Post by chimeracoder » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:49 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…

> Let's see, FB has about 2 billion daily actives, Insta has like 3 to 4 billion?

I agree that 2M "signups" is not actually impressive, but I'm not sure where you're getting the figure of 3-4 billion DAUs for Instagram. Everything I'm seeing is significantly lower than that.