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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by tayo42 »

rglullis wrote: post #527
tayo42 wrote: post #521

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they dont use a cloud provider...

https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google While Twitter hosts some services on its own servers, the company has long contracted with Google and Amazon to complement its infrastructure. Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things.

I worked there, I think i know what I'm talking about

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by rglullis »

tayo42 wrote: post #531
rglullis wrote: post #527

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google While Twitter hosts some services on its own servers, the company has long contracted with Google and Amazon to complement its infrastructure. Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things.

I worked there, I think i know what I'm talking about

So is the information of Twitter having a contract with Google a complete fabrication?

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by touisteur »

oxfordmale wrote: post #460
pohl wrote: post #377

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they just leech We prefer the verb “lurk”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lurker

I am a lurker. I have zero followers, and as such writing the nth comment on a Tweet with often n>100 is pointless, even before Musk took over. I also don't have the time or the energy to put out quality content. It is draining to put out good content and have a handful of moaners criticise it in a toxic manner. It is even worse if they criticise your content, because 3 years ago you said something about Musk/Tesla t…

The joys of lurking or being a low-volume is when you follow some people and they do something interesting that you may have done, or you might have the little interesting data point. It sometimes happens you have published a paper on the exact topic but in another field, or you're wondering whether there's a connection to something you know.

It's an amazing way to reach very interesting people doing very interesting things and to be amazed almost every day (if you like to learn, or just like human ingenuity). It needs curating, and liberal use of blocking, muting... but having (or watching) a short conversation with a security expert, programming language warrior, database benchmarker, or HPC researcher is something I feel I couldn't do elsewhere.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by housemusicfan »

bruce511 wrote: post #434
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…

There are a lot of news articles about Twitter because journalists use twitter, and have come to depend on it to boost their readership. Just this week there was an article on HN front page about journalism school requiring twitter accounts, and pushing journalists to build "their own brand" by getting lots of followers. These journalists hate the changes in twitter, and dont want it to go away. Hence the endless art…

> These journalists hate the changes in twitter, and dont want it to go away. Hence the endless articles about Musk, and Twitter and anything even tangentially related.

No, journalists hate that Musk took away the digital caste system that they took advantage of, where they (blue checks) were an elite ruling class. Now they are on equal footing as, and are forced to engage with, whom they perceive as the "Dalit scum" of the platform, who bought their way in for a measly $8.

Twitter was one of the most segregated societies on the planet, and Musk upturned its power structure nearly overnight and made it a more democratic society (albeit one with a benevolent dictator). Yet we all sat and watched while celebrities and journalists threw public temper tantrums, reminiscing about a time when life was better in their online universe, during the digital apartheid days, and their followers who sympathized. Talk about disruptive.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by vhold »

the_snooze wrote: post #161
srvmshr wrote: post #141

I tried using Threads religiously for few days alongside Twitter: * The feed is chaotic & no guarantees people (and by extension, Topics) whom you followed will show up primarily. Seeing a machine learning thread between a Barbie post & scantily clad influencer is bizarre. * The feed is jumpy with tiny accidental refreshes. You could be reading the thread and do a deep dive, and come out to find the timeline slightly…

>The feed is chaotic & no guarantees people (and by extension, Topics) whom you followed will show up primarily. Seeing a machine learning thread between a Barbie post & scantily clad influencer is bizarre. I follow some local weather sources. The algorithm decided that I'm really big into weather and started feeding me weather sources in other cities. Thanks, Threads. Good job trying to guess what I want instead of…

I'll never figure out why it turned my entire feed into NBA players and teams, I didn't follow a single one. I had to mute dozens of accounts to get it to show me something else. I actually found it kind of entertaining though, they could make the mute button a little more satisfying and then you'd have a game there.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by cubefox »

bombolo wrote: post #436
bruce511 wrote: post #434

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There are a lot of news articles about Twitter because journalists use twitter, and have come to depend on it to boost their readership. Just this week there was an article on HN front page about journalism school requiring twitter accounts, and pushing journalists to build "their own brand" by getting lots of followers. These journalists hate the changes in twitter, and dont want it to go away. Hence the endless art…

journalists use twitter and love to pretend that everybody else does too, and pass a few tweets as "the people have spoken" all the time.

Yes, journalists confuse (or confused) Twitter with what "the people" are thinking.

A prominent case: A few years ago, J.K. Rowling wrote an article on gender bathroom policy. I'm pretty sure most random people, when given the piece to read, would have judged it to be some rather moderate opinion. But on Twitter the author encounterd a massive wave of accusations and hostility. The journalists were probably sympathetic with those people, and moreover thought them to be in the majority among the general population (because the JKR criticisms were in the majority on Twitter).

So the journalists went out and wrote news pieces casually describing Rowling as being a transphobic, as if this was an uncontroversial description of fact, like the sky being blue, when it was really a serious accusation by the journalist. Their Twitter filter bubble confuses them about which views are common and which are fringe.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by cubefox »

touisteur wrote: post #533
oxfordmale wrote: post #460

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a lurker. I have zero followers, and as such writing the nth comment on a Tweet with often n>100 is pointless, even before Musk took over. I also don't have the time or the energy to put out quality content. It is draining to put out good content and have a handful of moaners criticise it in a toxic manner. It is even worse if they criticise your content, because 3 years ago you said something about Musk/Tesla t…

The joys of lurking or being a low-volume is when you follow some people and they do something interesting that you may have done, or you might have the little interesting data point. It sometimes happens you have published a paper on the exact topic but in another field, or you're wondering whether there's a connection to something you know. It's an amazing way to reach very interesting people doing very interesting…

Blocking / muting to get rid of replies by unwanted people? I myself never use that feature as a "lurker".

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by jug »

This is expected as the insane growth and usage as it was released in tandem with Typical Crazy Elon Moves was clearly unsustainable for years, much less even a few months. As for success, ask me again in 2024.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by cubefox »

justapassenger wrote: post #331
potatototoo99 wrote: post #305

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

2 most recent - stories basically destroyed Snaps growth potential and Reels are on track to overshadow TikTok.

I don't see Reels being anywhere close to that. YouTube Shorts seems to be a more successful TikTok copy.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by oxfordmale »

cubefox wrote: post #537
touisteur wrote: post #533

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The joys of lurking or being a low-volume is when you follow some people and they do something interesting that you may have done, or you might have the little interesting data point. It sometimes happens you have published a paper on the exact topic but in another field, or you're wondering whether there's a connection to something you know. It's an amazing way to reach very interesting people doing very interesting…

Blocking / muting to get rid of replies by unwanted people? I myself never use that feature as a "lurker".

I blocked Musk and Tesla, and that filters out a lot of the note toxic tweets.
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