Wake me up the first time news (web, tv, radio, paper) say that somebody twitted something on Threads.
I keep seeing tweets embedded in web pages and referenced on TV. No mention of Threads after the launch.
Threads users down by more than a half
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That's not accurate. There's often an early "tyre kicker" phase, with people signing up to explore a service. Or to ensure that others don't misappropriate well-known account handles. User attrition / retention rates for sites, services, and apps are well-studied and closely watched. E.g., "Retention rate on day 30 of mobile app installs worldwide in 3rd quarter 2022, by category" https://www.statista.com/statistics/…
That mostly only makes the number of users to fall if new people stop coming at some point. To some non-stablished service, people stopping to come is death.
People do in fact stop coming at some point.
As an example, Facebook (the site, distinguished from other aquisitions) has seen stagnant or falling usage in certain markets, notably the US and EU, as of about 5--6 years ago:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/31/16956818/facebook-q4-2017...>
http://www.businessinsider.sg/facebook-hits-wall-usage-falls...>
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#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Yet not only is Twitter not growing but it’s shrinking. Source? Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would lie, but my impression is not at all that Twitter is shrinking. There's a whole lot of discussion about Twitter shrinking and high profile people leaving, but they don't. Stephen king comes to mind as a big critic that threatened over and over to leave, but he…
> new all-time monthly user record I have been using Twitter almost since the beginning. Never have I ever seen this many bots and fake accounts on the platform. So I would be highly dubious of that user record count.
Well, this is Twitter after all. Probably the average LLM posts higher quality stuff than the average user there.
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#424It’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?
Marketplace? I miss when Craigslist used to be popular :(
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#425I don't know how funny a social network is that to be part of it you have to have an instagram account. I didn't find anything misleading on this social network I signed up to take a look as a programmer and I already regretted it
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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 fri…
That isn't 'social media', that is a friend network utilizing a social media network already in place as a communications device.
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#427It'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…
The live news is unreal. It's not unique to Twitter but seeing multiple accounts of any event anywhere in the world within seconds is kind of insane.
I remember when the Beirut explosion happened so quickly you had footage of what had happened.
This kind of latency is unachievable by traditional news
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#428Contrarian opinion. I don't think the microblogging concept holds much relevance for the bulk of internet users, especially not in 2023. The best Meta could hope for is to convert a percentage of existing Twitter users. Shallow platitudes of kindness aren't going to help either, especially not from someone who once referred to his userbase as dumbfucks, among other unkind words.
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Yep. Leeching is mostly used in the context of torrents. Generally, while you're downloading, you're "leeching." But also, if you don't seed a file after you download it, you can call that leeching. Lurking is when you frequent a forum but never post.
To leech, leeching and to be a leecher has been around since people used to download warez. It far predates torrents. I remember a local sysop in the 80s who ran an Apple II ASCII Express download site with two 5.25” floppy drives. You’d write him a text message and save it as a file. He was a cab driver and he’d come back home once in awhile and check the messages. If you were lucky he’d put your requested software…
That sounds like such an awesome experience. As inconvenient as it sounds sometimes I wish I grew up in the beginnings of computers.
My uncle told me a story of when he was at his first programming job carrying a box of at least 500 punch cards across a factory floor on his 2nd or 3rd day. Someone opened a garage door somewhere and a gust of wind came and blew every single punch card across the factory. They were everywhere he said. My uncle was terrified of losing his first job meanwhile these factory guys are pissing themselves laughing and almost literally rofl.
Turns out it's a prank they pull on everyone. There's only been a few that held onto the box and the cards are complete trash.
It sounds fun.
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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 fri…
That isn't 'social media', that is a friend network utilizing a social media network already in place as a communications device.
This seems like a very peculiar attempt at gate keeping to me. It’s a social network application that we use to share the content that we’ve created with each other. That’s what social media is, and the use case I’m describing is basically what it was initially created for.