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

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Post by jacooper »

joegahona wrote: post #112
jacooper wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything is better than twitter at this point.

Well there’s plenty to choose from. Threads, Mastodon, Substack Notes, Post.News, Bluesky, and all the tangential copycats (Nostr, Spill, T2 Social, Truth Social, Hive). We have to be reaching oversaturation in this space. I really wonder if all these projects are misjudging the appetite for a Twitter replacement.

None of them other than threads has reached enough traction, threads is growing incredibly fast, and will have critical mass for users to migrate. Also there is nothing new to learn, just use your existing Instagram account/create one and you are ready.

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

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Post by s3p »

ryan29 wrote: post #119
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

It’s really strange, and awesome, to see them launch on a .net domain. I have a decent (8 letter) .com with the .net and others to match. I want to build something on the .net, so I hope this builds some awareness for the TLD. I would love to hear an explanation of why they chose a .net. I always think of it as an OG TLD that throws back to a time when the internet didn’t suck, but I doubt that’s it. Lol. It can’t be…

Maybe because threads.com was taken by another company?

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

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Post by jamesgreenleaf »

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 don't want to necessarily block MrBeast, I just don't want to see him when I don't follow him.

Is there a mute feature like on Twitter? I use that all the time.

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

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Post by jacooper »

_justinfunk wrote: post #115
jacooper wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything is better than twitter at this point.

Why?

Did you see what elon did last week? I am not going to pay for a social media site which still gives me ads and has rate limits.

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

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Post by asadotzler »

chimeracoder wrote: post #70
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.

Yeah. That was wildly off. ChatGPT strikes again, or rather my ability to get chatGPT to give me useful information strikes again. Seems like closer to 1 billion or less?

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

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Post by treyd »

joegahona wrote: post #112
jacooper wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything is better than twitter at this point.

Well there’s plenty to choose from. Threads, Mastodon, Substack Notes, Post.News, Bluesky, and all the tangential copycats (Nostr, Spill, T2 Social, Truth Social, Hive). We have to be reaching oversaturation in this space. I really wonder if all these projects are misjudging the appetite for a Twitter replacement.

Truth Social is just a fork of Mastodon and is a terminal grift on followers of that particular political personality. Hive was a school project by 2 people that managed to secure funding without a real strategy and afaik hasn't really been able to reach a critical mass.

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

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Post by asadotzler »

asadotzler wrote: post #135
chimeracoder wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Yeah. That was wildly off. ChatGPT strikes again, or rather my ability to get chatGPT to give me useful information strikes again. Seems like closer to 1 billion or less?

I wonder if I was getting all Meta users or something. Well, doesn't matter too much in the end. FB has billions of users and a few million upsold to the new free app isn't terribly impressive to me.

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

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Post by impulser_ »

paxys wrote: post #5

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.

They said it coming soon, but the more you follow people the more your feed becomes filled with posts and replies from the people you follow. It's not as bad as when you first join.

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

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Post by x86x87 »

dagmx wrote: post #40

First impressions of the app are that it’s a bit slow and need some work. Some taps take several seconds to complete or just fail without feedback. But I guess that’s just server load that will even out and be designed around. Scrolling is not as fluid as either FB or IG, which is surprising given how much Meta invest in their feed. But better than most mastodon apps I’ve tried. Interface is pretty minimal and pleasa…

all those FB engineers that have designed twitter in an interview thousands of times and they cannot get this to be fast out of the gate? guess actually building a system is different than a power trip in an interview

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

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Post by heartbreak »

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…

> they have literally all of Instagram + Facebook's userbase to push it on

They haven’t even gotten to the “push” part yet and they’re now over 4 million users.

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