It pushed a bunch of sponsored ad content that wasn’t targeted correctly, and never really showed me anything from my friends. It got annoying fast, so it got deleted.
Threads users down by more than a half
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe give threads more than 3 weeks before declaring it hasn't dethroned Twitter.
What replaced AIM? Facebook messenger? Discord? Twitter? Whatsapp? Twitter can go away without being replaced by a singular entity.
MSN Messenger replaced AIM globally.
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#123It turns out that the network effect is indeed powerful.
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#124This is being reported in a strange way. We don't typically write about startups gaining initial signups and then compare them to the active users as if they lost something by not getting 100% of them to engage. Do we even have numbers for what percent of twitter users actively engage versus total user base? I don't think they are doing very bad considering it's mobile only right now.
For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being, I find it a bit hard to believe just how much the media has shaped the story here. There's a lot of reason to be skeptical... it's not that I like Musk but the media doesn't like him and that's no secret. I find it to be quite the opposite of what you're saying, that their press team has done a good job of shaping the story positively for Meta.
The puff piece in the WSJ combined with the all the positive press over the success of Threads, with now a quite rosy view of how it has played out since. I'm personally not a believer that they internally think Threads is a success, but to each their own. I constantly hear from my engineering co-workers about how much Twitter has changed and how the sky is falling, but the user numbers don't back that up and my user experience seems to be much the same.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/zuckerberg-channeled-og-mark-to...
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#125I can’t see how threads can be “launched” without a desktop client.
That’s not even an MVP, it’s non existent.
Some of these supposed genius tech leaders are really showing themselves to have very questionable decision making capability.
It was also extremely off putting that it was so tightly linked to instagram.
They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads.
Failing also to launch is Europe.
Honestly it doesn’t seem that hard, if you weird the resources that Zuckerberg does. You say to them “clone Twitter”. It’s not like Twitter is the biggest technical challenge in the world to clone… why couldn’t Meta do that?
The outcome looks like what you’d expect - the Meta equivalent of a Musk Starship launch.
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#126They should've launched globally. Not including Europe was a big mistake in my opinion.
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#127I followed people who post yet when I open the app my first 2 posts (the only posts visible) are from accounts I'd never follow (right now Paris Hilton and ESPN) and could care less about. I don't want to scroll through their suggested bullshit trying to get to what I actually want to read. Maybe this works when you are following no one.
Meta has no ability to not try to control your attention and divert it toward ads. They are institutionally incapable of anything other than control and divert. It is why I didn’t sign up for Threads and wouldn’t use Oculus if I were given one for free. The only Meta product I have access to is Facebook because my community is obsessed with FB Marketplace and posting upcoming IRL events on FB rather than email. I hat…
Oculus has no ads though. It has a store with recommended apps, which is no different to Steam.
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#128The app is missing so many core components, no DMs, no web interface, no trends, it's hard to find people. This absolutely has a market; but honestly given how half-baked it is, they probably should have waited for another Musk crucial mistake, which is inevitable.
It's missing everything necessary to make it for you and your interests; instead, you get what Zuck wants you to see. No hashtags (needed to build an audience if you want to post about things or find interesting people to follow), and it's not on the web (given how completely shitty the Instagram web interface is, they could care less about the web). I think they released it to capitalize on Elon's stupidity but with something that barely works. I'm not interested in some generic stream of celebrities and influencers I could care less about.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you kidding? Twitter has limits on how much you can read now. It's useless for me.
I don't have a twitter account. Do you regularly hit the 1,000 tweet view limit? That's over 83 tweets an hour, for 12 hours.
Twitter doesn't track your eyeballs to see how many you literally read. It's how many has been sent to your device.
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#130- Not letting you see just posts from your follows sucked.
- Building up a good group of people to follow takes a long time
- A lot of the people who I follow on Instagram I do not want to follow on Twitter.
- Just felt like an inorganic extension of Instagram. Like the difference between a fake real estate developer created neighborhood and a real one.