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Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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Post by ulfw »

meepmorp wrote: post #56
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know Linda Yaccarino well, but so far all her statements, internal and public, read like cringe parody of corporate mediocrity.

They're corporate anodynes meant for a specific audience. Her job is to be corporate and professional - she's there to get advertisers back onboard with Twitter. She's the grownup there to soothe their worries about the instability in the platform. Or she was, until Musk decided to randomly change the basic value proposition behind the site with no warning, undoing anything she'd already accomplished and making it pl…

You mentioned Musk "undoing anything she'd already accomplished.

What has she accomplished?

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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Post by tentacleuno »

ulfw wrote: post #42
rumblerock wrote: post #26

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My question is – what trade secrets does Twitter even have that Meta didn't already have the existing infrastructure for, or competency to build themselves (probably better)?

There's zero "trade secrets" (everyone knows how twitter works) and no technical secrets necessary. Threads is just instagram. It works and looks the same way. Instagram is photos with text, Threads is text with photos. The latter is not exactly rocket science to build when you already have built the former at scale and ran it successfully for years. And that's the genius of it!

How does everyone know how Twitter works? Doesn't it use proprietary code?

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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Post by goodbyesf »

perlgeek wrote: post #39

So was the unauthenticated read block related to Twitter being afraid that Meta scrapes their user base for easier migration?

Makes you wonder. Imagine if Meta was literally cloning twitter to make it easier for twitter users to migrate to threads.

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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Post by paxys »

warunsl wrote: post #55
paxys wrote: post #34

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And the reason they are all immediately on Threads is that they saw the existential threat to their careers when Twitter went private and restricted their accounts to viewing 600/6000 Tweets last week. It's clear that with the daily random rule changes and service interruptions Twitter isn't the reliable platform that they need, and Instagram has a great track record of it.

I think these big accounts were given access to Threads much before the rate limiting debacle. And that was great tactic by Threads IMO. Having a lot of "Verified" accounts engagement on the app on day 1 when rest of the world joined gave it instant credibility.

The Instagram influencer type accounts, yes. The journalists mentioned in the post all joined after launch.

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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Post by dodgson »

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #11
minimaxir wrote: post #8

Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's weird tweet about how great Twitter is ( https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1676965566597464065 ), the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter.

I don't know Linda Yaccarino well, but so far all her statements, internal and public, read like cringe parody of corporate mediocrity.

I don’t know her at all, but I know she’s someone who looked at Musk’s handling of Twitter over the past few months, his personal behavior, and the offer to work with/for him in this environment and said, “Yeah, this seems like a good idea.”

And that’s more than enough.

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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Post by dodgson »

ulfw wrote: post #61
meepmorp wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're corporate anodynes meant for a specific audience. Her job is to be corporate and professional - she's there to get advertisers back onboard with Twitter. She's the grownup there to soothe their worries about the instability in the platform. Or she was, until Musk decided to randomly change the basic value proposition behind the site with no warning, undoing anything she'd already accomplished and making it pl…

You mentioned Musk "undoing anything she'd already accomplished. What has she accomplished?

Assumably some backchannel conversations with existing advertisers or advertisers she’d like to lure back, assuring them that Twitter is a stable platform and its users will be able to do things like, for example, see tweets, for the foreseeable future.

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Post by meepmorp »

ulfw wrote: post #61
meepmorp wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're corporate anodynes meant for a specific audience. Her job is to be corporate and professional - she's there to get advertisers back onboard with Twitter. She's the grownup there to soothe their worries about the instability in the platform. Or she was, until Musk decided to randomly change the basic value proposition behind the site with no warning, undoing anything she'd already accomplished and making it pl…

You mentioned Musk "undoing anything she'd already accomplished. What has she accomplished?

She's been talking to advertisers, trying to convince them that Twitter is a good, stable place to work with and they can resume/expand their ad buys. I don't know that she's achieved anything specifically, but I do know that if she has, it's dead now.

Musk hired her to help improve revenue, and then basically made it impossible for her to ever achieve that goal.

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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Post by meepmorp »

dodgson wrote: post #67
ulfw wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mentioned Musk "undoing anything she'd already accomplished. What has she accomplished?

Assumably some backchannel conversations with existing advertisers or advertisers she’d like to lure back, assuring them that Twitter is a stable platform and its users will be able to do things like, for example, see tweets , for the foreseeable future.

Right? Imagine selling ad impressions and suddenly the entire scenario changes with zero warning. No doubt executives are falling all over themselves to get in on that shit.
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