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

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Post by Apofis »

afavour wrote: post #92

I feel like there’s a chicken and egg problem for Threads: it uses your existing Instagram social graph to populate your Threads account. Of course FB is going to do that otherwise they lose a massive edge against any competitor. But for me at least my Twitter is a very different social space to my Instagram and there’s very little crossover. So Threads looks like it’ll be text posts with your Instagram friends. Whic…

Instagram comments are not very good and rarely create a discussion, if that's what they're extrapolating it's going to the Meta-Graveyard pretty quickly.

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

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Post by julianeon »

rvz wrote: post #77
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…

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.

Consider: these are the engagement numbers for the now-defunct Google Plus.

In 2011, Google+ had 10 million users two weeks after the launch.[14] In a month, it had 25 million.[15] In October 2011, the service had 40 million users, according to Larry Page.[16] At the end of 2011, Google+ had 90 million users.[17] In October 2013, approximately 540 million monthly active users used the social layer by interacting with Google+'s enhanced properties, such as Gmail, the +1 button, and YouTube comments.[18] Some 300 million monthly active users participated in the social network by interacting with the Google+ social-networking stream. According to ComScore, the biggest market was the United States followed by India.

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

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Post by danielvaughn »

I cherish the fact that I got my Twitter account in 2009 and thus have my actual name "danielvaughn" as my handle. It's gonna take something really special to pull me away from Twitter, much as I dislike the direction it's going in. Threads is not special enough to pull me away.

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

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Post by nkozyra »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #164
rockinghigh wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you bootstrap the feed?

Let me CHOOSE if I want to see "suggested" or "promoted" content. Have "followers only" and "monetized influencer crap" tabs. At least make it an option.

You can't cold start like that. There has to be something when you open the app or it's DOA.

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

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Post by Freeboots »

colesantiago wrote: post #68
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.

Won't block Threads? Oh god.

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

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Post by qbasic_forever »

88913527 wrote: post #149
afavour wrote: post #92

I feel like there’s a chicken and egg problem for Threads: it uses your existing Instagram social graph to populate your Threads account. Of course FB is going to do that otherwise they lose a massive edge against any competitor. But for me at least my Twitter is a very different social space to my Instagram and there’s very little crossover. So Threads looks like it’ll be text posts with your Instagram friends. Whic…

Text posts with your Meta friends sounds like Facebook from 2010. What is old is new again, I suppose.

Facebook minus all your annoying boomer parents/relatives (who have no idea what Instagram is or how to install an app) and their political posts and screeds sounds amazing.
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