With the crazy success of TikTok, do people care about text based content?
Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter had verification based on the account's noteworthiness, and now it doesn't. That was one of the main features of Twitter, and now Threads.net has it.
What does "noteworthy" mean? Who decides what's noteworthy?
Twitter did before, based on their own internal criteria. The system was flawed, but having a flawed system is better than no system at all, as we are seeing now.
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#73> @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.
I dunno, he's kinda growing on me. If people can like Elon, why can't they like the Zuck? Zuck is clearly more level headed than Elon, which to me makes him more likeable. Embracing the zuck monikor was a real power move, given that up until this point most people use that name in a disparaging manner :D
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Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
#74That 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…
It would have had more users if it released at the intended time of 10am tomorrow.
I suspect the surprise release today is to manage server load / "soft" launch. Wait until tomorrow for the real metrics.
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#75How about we not support data mining and go to Lemmy?
I'm starting to become convinced that a significant portion of internet users in 2023 not only tolerate data mining, but have some kind of Stockholm-Syndrome-induced personal data exhibitionism fetish.
I miss the era when the internet was just broadband desktop users, with none of the people who exclusively access it via smartphone.
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#76For comparison, "Google Plus had 10 million users two weeks after its launch on June 28, 2011."
Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
#77That 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…
2 million users in 2 hours is incomparable to any social network growth rate I've seen.
Where as the entire Fediverse has 11 million registered users in 7 years.
I don't know how that 2M in 2 hours is 'oddly low' but at that rate, Threads will surpass the entire Fediverse in less than 24 hours and will be centralizing the Fediverse when it turns on ActivityPub.
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#78How is this any better than twitter when you still have to log in?
Yeah, seems like just a different master.
What was wrong with mastadon?
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#79clicking on the threads.net badge on a profile (https://www.threads.net/@zuck) says
"Soon, you'll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, like @zuck@threads.net."
That seems to be a pretty strong commitment. If they pull this off and manage to bring the Fediverse into the mainstream and kill Twitter off in the process this is far from just a clone. Genuinely excited for this one.
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#80I signed up but not gonna use it because it’s just twitter with less content
Yes, but they have meaningful verification (apparently), while Twitter doesn't.
> Yes, but they have meaningful verification (apparently), while Twitter doesn't.
Depends on what you mean by "meaningful". Threads uses Instagram's verification, which, like Twitter's, is now pay-to-play[0].
[0] https://about.fb.com/news/2023/02/testing-meta-verified-to-h...