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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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AmericanChopper wrote: post #442
aydyn wrote: post #440

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No they're right. If all you're doing is keeping up with a tight-nit group of friends, you could use a million other services. Group SMS, I-message, discord, Hangouts, even plain old email. Obviously there's a a key difference between instagram and all those others services I just mentioned and I posit that common difference is why you're using instagram instead. What is it?

> Obviously there's a a key difference between instagram and all those others services I just mentioned and I posit that common difference is why you're using instagram instead. What is it? It’s the media bit… Insta is created to share pictures and videos with your _own_ selection of followers. You couldn’t do that in WhatsApp without creating some horrific cartesian product of different groups chats for every node o…

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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by thomashop »

ggm wrote: post #480
thomashop wrote: post #477

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I weigh a tweet by the BBC more than the tweet of my racist neighbour. I weigh a news article in a tabloid newspaper less than I would an article in the New York Times for example. Why do we need to make a blanket statement about social media being untrustworthy? Information without context can't be trusted no matter the medium.

Perhaps I have a weak line of argument. It does cause widespread harm, if not to you certainly to others. At root it shouldn't matter. But, it seems it does. It's like dope. Why all the furore when mature reasonable adults can self police their use and avoid trouble? It's everyone else, who overdo it, who become lost in psychosis, who turn to crime. Sure, decriminalise it. But... look how the Dutch are saying it's fa…

Would you eg say teenage girls are not at risk? That people with mental health issues are not at risk? Not that it defines it as "ban it now" but "where's the harm" seems disinegenuous. There's harm. How much, what remediates, unclear. For me, it's avoid. You differ.

Every piece of information that is transmitted between humans carries the risk of harming someone.

I genuinely believe that society at large is better due to social media.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by newZWhoDis »

eertami wrote: post #470
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #370

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Elon is trying to turn Twitter/X into the wests WeChat. So at least he’s doing something interesting? I’m back in the Elon corner. Is he goes down, it’ll be doing something interesting at least. Meta might have a head start with WhatsApp, but I don’t see them doing anything interesting or well.

There is no feature Twitter/X could bring to chat that would take users away from WhatsApp. It already covers 100% of it's users needs, is free, and has near complete market penetration in many regions. (If you are talking to anyone in Europe by text, you will always use WhatsApp)

I don’t know a single person who uses “WhatsApp”. I have never had anyone, personally or professionally, give me a “whatsApp” username.

In the US, if you met someone via online dating and said “here’s my whatsapp” 99% of people would think you are a scammer or something.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by baby »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #370
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…

Elon is trying to turn Twitter/X into the wests WeChat. So at least he’s doing something interesting? I’m back in the Elon corner. Is he goes down, it’ll be doing something interesting at least. Meta might have a head start with WhatsApp, but I don’t see them doing anything interesting or well.

Yet twitter still has the worse DM experience of all platforms lol

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by baby »

newZWhoDis wrote: post #483
eertami wrote: post #470

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There is no feature Twitter/X could bring to chat that would take users away from WhatsApp. It already covers 100% of it's users needs, is free, and has near complete market penetration in many regions. (If you are talking to anyone in Europe by text, you will always use WhatsApp)

I don’t know a single person who uses “WhatsApp”. I have never had anyone, personally or professionally, give me a “whatsApp” username. In the US, if you met someone via online dating and said “here’s my whatsapp” 99% of people would think you are a scammer or something.

I’m in the bay area and everyone uses whatsapp, and after that telegram or signal or insta

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #439
dessimus wrote: post #406

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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.

> Journalists are typically the ones bringing any sort of credibility to topics. Not at all. "Journalists" are as biased as they come. They'll sing any tune prescribed by the hand that feeds them. That hand is most often advertisers but may also be governments. Chances are the articles they produce are actually hidden advertisements or propaganda. How could anyone with such massive conflicts of interest bring credibi…

> What makes you think these "journalists" aren't just randoms themselves? They're not really any better than any person on this site.

It's pretty ridiculous to compare someone who has a university degree, years of training and experience, professional qualifications, and maybe a strong reputation, with a "random" posting on an internet forum.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by baby »

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?

Snapchat

(I’d say that twitter killed clubhouse also)

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by baby »

randomdata wrote: post #437
TX81Z wrote: post #393

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Yea, this is a truly impressive launch. If even 25% of people who logged in just to see the new shiny thing stuck around and became a DAU that’s utterly remarkable. This framing is absurdist.

It would be remarkable for a lot of businesses, but given that it’s just a new Instagram feature, double digit million users long term would be an abject failure for Meta. Other new-ish Instagram features like Stories and Reels now have DAUs into the billions . Still time to right the ship, of course. Also, keep in mind this is Threads “2.0”. Threads was first launched in 2019[1]. As such, it may even be a stretch to…

Na it’s a separate app

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by baby »

vitorgrs wrote: post #277
skc wrote: post #32

Threads will be alright in the end. They launched it at a very opportune time when Twitter was having massive technical issues. That was enough to get millions of people to kick the tires and more importantly, create awareness. The next time Twitter goes down, and it will any day now, people will again flock to Threads and notice that it got a little better. Twitter will get fixed again, and a lower percentage of Thr…

That's exactly how Telegram growth. WhatsApp always had outages and some problems. With every problem, people used Telegram - and Telegram was better. That's how Telegram have 700 million active users.

As someone who prefers the security benefits of whatsapp, I gotta say telegram’s user experience is much better

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

nomel wrote: post #203
kayodelycaon wrote: post #101

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Clicking into a thread will use up those views really fast. Could easily hit 200 views in 5 minutes.

So, you hit the limit often? I'm trying to find if there's anyone who regularly experiences hitting the limit.

I'm pretty sure the limit was one of his experiments that he's since rolled back on. It may even have been an emergency measure to mitigate the worst effects of another bug, but I'm not sure if he's ever been openly honest about any of this. There was certainly a weekend where the limit was imposed, then raised, then—I think—raised again... and I don't think we've really heard anything about it since.
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