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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by markdown »

user_named wrote: post #338
markdown wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this was a massive miss-step IMO, and will be their unthreading. I and half the people I know on Twitter are not owners of Instagram accounts. It's absurd to require Insta to login to Threads.

If you think like this you're engineerbrained and don't live in the real world. The account linking was a quick fix, the app was released early, and the accounts will not be forcibly linked later on. You won't need an Instagram account to sign up to Threads. But still, if you don't have one, just sign up to Instagram as you would Threads, and you already have your account made.

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Post by madeofpalk »

dahwolf wrote: post #315

It's pretty common that after a peak of new signups, most do not convert to long term active users. This doesn't even take into account that most "active users" tend to never post anything, they just leech. They still count as MAU. I'm sure that Meta has plenty of ways to boost that number in the long term but overall I find the entire thing underwhelming. Threads is text-based Instagram. But not even that as you can…

> Twitter is raw, edgy and toxic. It's also known for its real-time coverage of events, which Threads so far lacks.

Yeah, for the "chronically online". But twitter is also celebs and brands, and the "normals" following them. I think for those Threads will find an audience. It will be... Twitter, but for Instagram.

Twitter has always had an outside impact compared to it's actual userbase, mainly due to nailing the news media + politics segment. Threads could fail to pick up the same cultural impact, but still be a thriving business/website, especially if brands and advertisers prefer it over Twitter.

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Post by klyrs »

dahwolf wrote: post #315

It's pretty common that after a peak of new signups, most do not convert to long term active users. This doesn't even take into account that most "active users" tend to never post anything, they just leech. They still count as MAU. I'm sure that Meta has plenty of ways to boost that number in the long term but overall I find the entire thing underwhelming. Threads is text-based Instagram. But not even that as you can…

> they just leech

Isn't that Threads's whole thing? Everybody gets the same feed, no matter what you post?

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Post by dorkwood »

operatingthetan wrote: post #170
engineeringwoke wrote: post #124

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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 p…

>For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being Really? A bunch of engineering types who work for big corporations and who also dream and or do start their own hopefully big corporations prides themselves as being "counter-cultural?" That seems like a tough generalization to support.

The top-voted comment on any article is usually a comment claiming the article is wrong. We're definitely counter-something.

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Post by gerdesj »

hcurtiss wrote: post #291
_jal wrote: post #262

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Xitter has moved from offering 50% off ad purchases of $250k a couple months ago to threatening removal of "gold checks" from companies that don't spend $1k. That is not the strategy of a healthy advertising-driven company. It isn't even a strategy, that's flop-sweat.

I wouldn't be so sure. Tesla lowered prices and the press made the same kinds of predictions. Come earning season Tesla clobbered its competitors.

This isn't Tesla - its Twitter or X.

You might as well jabber on about tulip bulbs.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by user_named »

markdown wrote: post #341
user_named wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think like this you're engineerbrained and don't live in the real world. The account linking was a quick fix, the app was released early, and the accounts will not be forcibly linked later on. You won't need an Instagram account to sign up to Threads. But still, if you don't have one, just sign up to Instagram as you would Threads, and you already have your account made.

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You already know that Threads and Instagram accounts are linked, that you need an Instagram account and then login to Threads with that.

So what you claim to be a problem isn't a problem because you and every other prospective user knows how to create a Threads account.

Porting over the Instagram graph to Threads is literally how they created the network effect that made it the fastest growing app ever.

Engineerbrained.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by madeofpalk »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #197
justapassenger wrote: post #180

It’s super funny to see people framing that as Threads failing. They totally may fail. But even after that initial drop (which is expected, for something that managed to get so much hype) they’re likely still the biggest app in the history in terms of DAU in few weeks after the launch. And if there’s one thing Meta knows how to do is to copy successful idea and slowly grind the growth till it dominates market.

First of all, I doubt the premise of this entirely, e.g. Pokémon Go almost certainly had higher DAU weeks after it launched (and it was growing rather than shrinking). But secondly, I'm skeptical that it's even fair to talk about Threads stats using the same measurements as any "new" app, since it's really an extension of Instagram. You don't make a new account for Threads, you just use your Instagram account. They a…

> I'm skeptical that it's even fair to talk about Threads stats using the same measurements as any "new" app, since it's really an extension of Instagram.

Well, you could compared it to Instagram's previous Threads app, which no one used https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-i...

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by madeofpalk »

potatototoo99 wrote: post #305
justapassenger wrote: post #180

It’s super funny to see people framing that as Threads failing. They totally may fail. But even after that initial drop (which is expected, for something that managed to get so much hype) they’re likely still the biggest app in the history in terms of DAU in few weeks after the launch. And if there’s one thing Meta knows how to do is to copy successful idea and slowly grind the growth till it dominates market.

What is one thing Meta succeeded in copying and beat the original?

The all time classic would be Instagram copying Stories from Snapchat.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by tamimio »

nologic01 wrote: post #206

Its inevitable that online social media platforms will split in two types. The type I that attracts those with something authentic to say . And the type II that attracts those with something to sell . The first type is the future fediverse. Its the 15%. The art house cinema. The colorful city center street. Flexible, innovative, human centric, low budget, soul nourishing. The second type is Meta-stasized and coming i…

Thank you, that’s how I see it too -maybe with different ratios-, and that’s why I’m happy to see the traditional corporate sponsored social media platforms are crumbling like Twitter/Reddit/threads, it’s overall and in the long term better for societies.
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