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How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by adonese »

cheviethai123 wrote: post #3

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It's actually okay-ish so far. The people and the news are still on twitter but with the bots (twitter) and Facebook support (infrastructure, integration with existing fb products and the leaner upselling) I can see that it does have a good product market fit

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by okokwhatever »

realprimoh wrote: post #10
puttycat wrote: post #5

The amount of (very impressive) human labor that went into building something that was dead on delivery. Kudos to them for being able to incentivize engineers to pull through this.

Dead on delivery? That’s pretty dramatic (and incorrect). 100M users in 5 days and it’s quite active today - very far from dead on delivery.

mostly Ig users who got left the platform after a couple of days... quite impresive.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by herbst »

HatchedLake721 wrote: post #9
cheviethai123 wrote: post #3

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Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me. They used a small team to build an app in 5 months that handled going from 0 to 100 mil users in 5 days. Doesn’t sound neither lots of money and engineering, or false idea if it had 100 mil signups in 5 days.

It's kinda awkward that they insist on that 100 mil in 5 days number when they compare to apps that didn't have the half world available to aggressively advertise to for free.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by verdverm »

DeathArrow wrote: post #4

What is Threads?

It's ActivityPub based, Twitter like, social media from Meta

It's been pretty chill over there, lacks the crazy that is Twitter

For me, it opens the potential for a federated social media protocol. Having a big player like Meta means everyone will likely benefit. Federated means we can move between servers without losing the network, allowing for competition in moderation, algorithms, and monetization

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by jonathanstrange »

adonese wrote: post #11
cheviethai123 wrote: post #3

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It's actually okay-ish so far. The people and the news are still on twitter but with the bots (twitter) and Facebook support (infrastructure, integration with existing fb products and the leaner upselling) I can see that it does have a good product market fit

Honestly, I can't believe any real person still uses Twitter. I haven't subscribed to anyone and have no subscribers. Nevertheless, whenever I open it, I'm swamped with US Neo-Nazi tweets, as well as pro-Russia and pro-Hamas content. I'm not saying it's the only content I see, but enough to make Twitter look like the front page of a terrorist organization. Apparently, the Twitter algorithm has learned that I'm using it to look up political tweets from time to time by following links, and adjusted its content accordingly to convince me of a hundred times more radical positions than I would ever endorse or want to see.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by glimshe »

realprimoh wrote: post #10
puttycat wrote: post #5

The amount of (very impressive) human labor that went into building something that was dead on delivery. Kudos to them for being able to incentivize engineers to pull through this.

Dead on delivery? That’s pretty dramatic (and incorrect). 100M users in 5 days and it’s quite active today - very far from dead on delivery.

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Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by realprimoh »

glimshe wrote: post #17
realprimoh wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dead on delivery? That’s pretty dramatic (and incorrect). 100M users in 5 days and it’s quite active today - very far from dead on delivery.

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Not sure how that correlates with usage. Your personal experience isn’t a generalizable experience.

Nobody in my circle uses Snapchat, yet it’s worth $27B…

If anything, this might mean your circle is quite small.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by wayfinder »

realprimoh wrote: post #10
puttycat wrote: post #5

The amount of (very impressive) human labor that went into building something that was dead on delivery. Kudos to them for being able to incentivize engineers to pull through this.

Dead on delivery? That’s pretty dramatic (and incorrect). 100M users in 5 days and it’s quite active today - very far from dead on delivery.

Instagram has like 2 billion users and I got spammed the shit out of to open a Threads account.

That’s like saying it’s impressive I made a million dollar company after my dad gave me 2 billion.

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