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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by voisin »

wodenokoto wrote: post #133
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…

Wasn't Instagram iPhone-only for a very long time?

Yes and their web presence only very recently allowed you to upload from your computer. It was half baked on the web for a very, very long time.

Also, WhatsApp and Instagram still don’t have an iPad app. Given the scale of their users and the company’s resources it is unfathomable to me that they haven’t tried to make their products more seamless experiences across the devices users use. But then I remember it is Meta and I would be hard pressed to think of a more user-hostile company.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by gumballindie »

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…

They probably use react or a similar framework, so building it would require hundreds, if not thousands, of people working on it for years.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by rglullis »

Reading at the comments here, I'm baffled to see all the people trying to find a reasonable justification for why they are not using it. (They didn't launch a web app, they didn't launch in Europe, they didn't do X, they should've done Y)

It should be a lot simpler. We should all have learned by now that any and every product from Facebook is radioactive waste.

Hopefully Threads is indeed DOA. Anyway, we should have been asking ourselves why is it that 100M people even managed to sign up in the first place and how to make sure they don't even try again.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by BoorishBears »

davidkuennen wrote: post #126

They should've launched globally. Not including Europe was a big mistake in my opinion.

Wasn't at all, they couldn't even get a desktop client in place, why would they want to play with GDPR?

This is ChatGPT again, over all Europe will be increasingly isolated from the rest of the internet because their politicians were tricked into thinking they had more influence over the forefront technology than they actually do: You can't be a steward of good policy from the back of the train, you'll just get kicked off the train.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by vikramkr »

mrguyorama wrote: post #63
davidw wrote: post #4

It seems to have enough people that it has some legs. I am really looking forward to a web version of it, but otherwise enjoy it, despite some growing pains. Edit I'm here: https://www.threads.net/@davidnwelton Edit2 If I think about it some, the biggest drawback about Threads for me is swapping one egocentric billionaire who is rapidly going off the rails for another who is, for the moment, more stable, but has stil…

>Mastodon seems like the alternative if you really hate that kind of setup, but... it doesn't seem to have much traction. People keep saying this as if the only "success" mastadon can have is by being in everyone's pocket. It's not an SV unicorn startup, it's not trying to buy out some investors. It's doing exactly what it is designed to do: be a user owned platform. Not everyone will want that all the time, and some…

for social media though that's a pretty important end goal. If the people I want to follow aren't using it, then I don't want to use it either. It's like with messenger apps - the one that everyone else is using is the one that wins. And if they aren't using it and I am, then part of my use of the platform becomes trying to get the people I want to talk to onto the platform. It's not a silicon valley thing - it's a communications thing. "everyone is using it all the time" was an important end goal for the post office too, and highways and other shared infrastructure with network effects.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by bhauer »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #100
explain wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

87.6% of Twitter active-seconds are mobile, according to Elon's most recent data. Would've expected closer to 70/30 personally.

And do you actually believe this statistic? I don't know a single person who willingly prefers a limited, bogged-down experience of any product (social media or otherwise) over a full-fledged desktop client.

I don't think it's a matter of preference.

Of course I prefer doing all of my computing on my desktop computer. But I don't take my desktop computer with me to the grocery store. And I use Twitter to entertain myself when I'm waiting in line at the grocery store, for example. When I am at my desktop computer, I'm much less likely to be interested in using Twitter.

That said, one of many reasons I didn't bother creating a Threads account is precisely that reason: no desktop client. Unless forced, I won't use anything that is exclusively available on mobile devices.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by nickthegreek »

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.

I feel like this is a battle that will be measured in years at this point.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by Karellen »

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…

If your core target audience is people who use their phone for 99% of their computing/internet needs, why would a desktop client be part of your MVP?

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by marcosdumay »

nerdawson wrote: post #41
dhosek wrote: post #23

I don’t use Twitter because I like Twitter, but because that’s where the people that I like to interact with (mostly writers) are. 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. Threads failed the smell test early on because it started out with algorithmic feed only and the algori…

> 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…

Meanwhile, Twitter keeps its slow death.

People are certainly going somewhere (outside?), what isn't happening is for all of them going to the same place. IMO, that's a very good thing, but it does break any ambition of social world domination large companies may have.

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