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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by srvmshr »

I tried using Threads religiously for few days alongside Twitter:

* The feed is chaotic & no guarantees people (and by extension, Topics) whom you followed will show up primarily. Seeing a machine learning thread between a Barbie post & scantily clad influencer is bizarre.

* The feed is jumpy with tiny accidental refreshes. You could be reading the thread and do a deep dive, and come out to find the timeline slightly/significantly different.

* No message/DM. No bookmark feature. No topic suggestions - Just pure Instagram-like scrolling.

The good part is no ads. But that could be a matter of time. Overtaking Twitter in engagement will be hard. Social networks have some inertia & needs some key users to remain successful (I forget the paper name - but it describes growth/implosion of network graphs when some key community members used/left. Like a hole in the graph. If any HNer knows about it - It came about 7-8 years ago.)

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

#142

Post by lquist »

andrewstuart wrote: post #125

I 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. Fa…

Meta has a history of churning out MVPs and doubling down on what works. Launching with a desktop client, EU, etc are in direct opposition to a lean MVP. Meta definitely has some missteps but not sure this is one.

Tying in to Instagram was what made it resonate with such a large audience vs all the other Twitter clones. Carrying over the social graph was a wise decision imho.

The Starship analogy makes little sense as well. Starship is not an MVP and well on track to continue to push forward the state of the art of rocket engineering.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

#143

Post by bhauer »

x0x0 wrote: post #82
nerdawson wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Twitter isn’t going to be that place with each new chaos monkey attack from Musk, but what the successor place is going to be remains to be seen. First, Mastodon was going to be the new place. It wasn't. Then Threads came along and again everyone said it would be the death knell for Twitter. It wasn't. My takeaway would be quite the opposite. While everything that comes along…

Maybe give threads more than 3 weeks before declaring it hasn't dethroned Twitter.

Is this sarcasm?

If not, maybe wait more than 3 weeks before declaring it Twitter's successor.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

#144

Post by gabereiser »

In other news, man-child wars between tech bros end with both failing to find product fit and alienating all their customers.

Facebooks growth was because it was where your friends were posting. Twitter growth was because of where influential people posted that you were interested in their (brief) thoughts. X was a failed payments platform that eventually became PayPal and sold to eBay (due to eBay being their only true partner at the time). Facebook/Meta keeps buying their way into the cool club only to realize they’re not cool. The bodies of friendstr, MySpace, phpbb, and even reddit now, as the tech bros learn that “features” aren’t what bring people in. People do. Make it friendly to people like the growth days. Not friendly to corporations so you can milk more advertising dollars. I’ll stay on the “I deleted my meta and I’m not coming back” fence.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

#145

Post by dorfsmay »

srvmshr wrote: post #141

I tried using Threads religiously for few days alongside Twitter: * The feed is chaotic & no guarantees people (and by extension, Topics) whom you followed will show up primarily. Seeing a machine learning thread between a Barbie post & scantily clad influencer is bizarre. * The feed is jumpy with tiny accidental refreshes. You could be reading the thread and do a deep dive, and come out to find the timeline slightly…

And no browser version, mobile only!

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

#147

Post by voisin »

lquist wrote: post #142
andrewstuart wrote: post #125

I 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. Fa…

Meta has a history of churning out MVPs and doubling down on what works. Launching with a desktop client, EU, etc are in direct opposition to a lean MVP. Meta definitely has some missteps but not sure this is one. Tying in to Instagram was what made it resonate with such a large audience vs all the other Twitter clones. Carrying over the social graph was a wise decision imho. The Starship analogy makes little sense a…

> Tying in to Instagram was what made it resonate with such a large audience

Resonate, or was simply them leveraging their current user base? I don’t think the use of an Instagram login and having your current contacts imported made it “resonate” with anyone. It was just a growth hack.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

#148

Post by andrewstuart »

lquist wrote: post #142
andrewstuart wrote: post #125

I 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. Fa…

Meta has a history of churning out MVPs and doubling down on what works. Launching with a desktop client, EU, etc are in direct opposition to a lean MVP. Meta definitely has some missteps but not sure this is one. Tying in to Instagram was what made it resonate with such a large audience vs all the other Twitter clones. Carrying over the social graph was a wise decision imho. The Starship analogy makes little sense a…

>> Tying in to Instagram was what made it resonate with such a large audience vs all the other Twitter clones.

This is false.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

#149

Post by bhauer »

nomel wrote: post #61
kayodelycaon wrote: post #52

Earlier 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.

I consider myself a pretty frequent Twitter user. I don't pay and I've never run into the daily limit.
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