My beef with threads is that it’s just like IG. I was promised a text based social but lo and behold, I open it and find more sexy people posting short form videos. It’s so boring.
Threads users down by more than a half
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> 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 new…
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a deliberate strategy to lure only "normals" away from Twitter, so that the remaining faithful X users will be the loudest, edgiest, most politically polarized ones, speeding up the vicious cycle of X becoming nothing more than a toxic culture war battleground.
Hopefully a battleground that no one will care about because the normies got lured away. Twitter not being a cultural network is probably much better for society because these always online losers currently seem to have much higher influence on society than they should.
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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.
If a structural engineer points out that a bridge is unsafe, you don't call them "engineerbrained" and gesture at all the motorists still using the bridge. Why do we accept this bollocks in software engineering? Meta are not trustworthy and it's reasonable to want nothing to do with them.
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#404My beef with threads is that it’s just like IG. I was promised a text based social but lo and behold, I open it and find more sexy people posting short form videos. It’s so boring.
My initial experience was I had to access through an app on my phone. No thanks, I am not interested in contributing to the surveillance economy anymore. No data-vacuuming apps, no WEI.
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#405A very short time with TikTok showed me I need to delete it instantly. It was too good at delivering crack. Twitter is pretty good, mixing up my follows and some random stuff that I enjoy. Threads is useless at figuring me out. Inane self promotion, all noise and no signal whatsoever.
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#406It'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…
journalists leaving twitter is an improvement.
Care to expound on that? Journalists are typically the ones bringing any sort of credibility to topics. Without journalists, it's just randos and bots shit-posting their hot takes.
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It’s hard to say. What I see is a lot of people in my network really scaling back or dropping Twitter and maybe playing with the alternatives but not really embracing them. I suspect that for many it will be a case of “Social media was nice while it lasted.”
I think that's an excellent point. Social media fatigue seems at its peak in this time of transition, further accelerated by the COVID era. People are becoming aware of their over-usage and the largely minimal or even negative benefits that come from social media altogether. Or just bored and indifferent about it. The fatigue is further strengthened when they soon learn that the alternatives are worse or at best just…
I’m so unable to relate to perspectives like this on social media. I have Insta and my connections on there are almost entirely my real friends, we all post stuff we’re actually doing in our lives, and send messages to each other, etc… as in, we actually use it for socialising. I follow a small handful of celebrity accounts, and browse reels occasionally, but the main reason I like using it is to interact with my friends.
Re: Threads users down by more than a half
#408It'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…
I just see a beat down not wild times. Meta is trying to clone twitter and the only win they have is the signup process and people seeing what the fuss is about.
Re: Threads users down by more than a half
#409It'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…
I just see a beat down not wild times. Meta is trying to clone twitter and the only win they have is the signup process and people seeing what the fuss is about.
Idk, the way I see it, they built a solid seed fan-base to eat more of twitter’s lunch.
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Mastodon was really never going to be that place where most of the internet moved. It would've been nice in a perfect world, but it's simply not set up as an advertiser-friendly social networking site that would attract celebrities and brands, and quite frankly I think the vast majority of its userbase considers that a feature and not a bug. Still, I believe that BlueSky and Threads remain a looming existential threa…
I'm getting regular bluesky invites, and people use them. It looks like the most "correct" implementation to me at this stage, although the having to jump through hoops to share videos is frustrating.
That tracks with what I'm seeing - BlueSky is where most of my twitter-addict friends have either already ended up or are angling to get into. A few of them have Mastodon accounts too.