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Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by tempera » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 6:51 AM UTC

extr wrote: post #54

I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…

I don't know about other people, but this comment comes off as fake and fabricated to me.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by planb » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 10:09 AM UTC

imran0 wrote: post #160

planb wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You make it sound like they (meta) are dumb for making these decisions. Probably, their goals shifted from "get as many users as possible" to "earn as much money as possible". I guess they know very well what they are doing.

I've got 1 word for you. Metaverse.

Ok, good point...

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by BigBar » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 1:48 PM UTC

HDThoreaun wrote: post #198

cbeach wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nobody has a better track record ... than Meta * Data breach of 533M users * Record-breaking €1.2bn fine in Europe for illegal data transfers * Record-breaking $5bn FTC fine for privacy violations * Psychological experiments run on unconsenting users in 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-... * Cambridge Analytica

Users don't give a shit about any of this

Sadly, this is spot on.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by JSavageOne » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 6:52 AM UTC

dan1234 wrote: post #58

JSavageOne wrote: post #49

I'm not going to download this because there's no web application. It's clear that they intentionally did not release a web application in order to maximize app installs and thus maximum control over their users (eg. scrape your contacts, push notifications, and most importantly to show you ads). In 2023 nobody wants to install yet another app, so this is a clever strategy to optimize for app installs. Not going to w…

Deny access to contacts and push notifications, use DNS based ad blocker should take care of those problems. Are people actually typing thought provoking, in-depth analysis into Twitter?

There actually is high quality content in Twitter threads. Of course most content on Twitter isn't high quality though.