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Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by threeseed »

herbst wrote: post #13
HatchedLake721 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They reached 100M users without any advertising. Purely word of mouth.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

vik0 wrote: post #22
o10449366 wrote: post #18

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The stock market isn't representative of how real world actors are doing at any given moment. I'd recommend reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb. But I'm glad you made money

I find him impossible to understand. It also doesn't help that he is a bully.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by herbst »

threeseed wrote: post #31
herbst wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They reached 100M users without any advertising. Purely word of mouth.

Pretty sure there was (and still is) a very obvious button in Instagram, they didn't spend money on advertising is what I understood.

At 1.2 billion monthly users that's a pretty average CTR for that kind of thing. A little extra because threads still isn't available worldwide so some traffic was just lost.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by rapsey »

rglullis wrote: post #26
o10449366 wrote: post #18

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Let me try to ask you in the most neutral way possible: how do you feel about being an investor in a company with such a troubled history of privacy violations and one of the key enablers of Surveillance Capitalism?

You can find moral arguments against investing in practically any company. At the end of the day your stance makes no actual difference. The only thing you are doing is missing out. If you are so moral, spend effort into something more meaningful instead of making yourself poorer.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by zimpenfish »

herbst wrote: post #33
threeseed wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They reached 100M users without any advertising. Purely word of mouth.

Pretty sure there was (and still is) a very obvious button in Instagram, they didn't spend money on advertising is what I understood. At 1.2 billion monthly users that's a pretty average CTR for that kind of thing. A little extra because threads still isn't available worldwide so some traffic was just lost.

> they didn't spend money on advertising is what I understood

They didn't have to, though - the news outlets were running stories on Threads and its impending arrival nearly every day. To claim, as GP does, it was entirely "organic" is nonsense.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by surgical_fire »

rglullis wrote: post #26
o10449366 wrote: post #18

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Let me try to ask you in the most neutral way possible: how do you feel about being an investor in a company with such a troubled history of privacy violations and one of the key enablers of Surveillance Capitalism?

Nobody should be in the stock market evaluating if companies behave ethically. Most companies do not.

I do not invest in Meta specifically, but I would likely not vouch for any companies in my investment portfolio. It's up to the government and the courts to go after them, not me with a paltry few thousand dollars worth of shares.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by pityJuke »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #16
adonese wrote: post #11

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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…

You’re not wrong. The FYP, at least for my unused account, is garbage tier. Hell, the latest phenomenon it has picked up on is meme pages used to advertise OnlyFans and gambling, and outright pornography and porn ads. Some of the worst human beings are on there spreading ideas about race theory. Responses to anything vaguely popular are filled with blue check marks either trying to make money with engagement bait, or clout chasing by reply spam.

But Twitter allows you to curate your graph with the Following tab way better. There are enough sub-communities and funny people for it to still work.

And all recommendation algorithms are vulnerable. Thread’s head honcho had to release a statement because the recommendation algorithm on Threads became awful over the holiday period. And they aggressively want you on the FYP!

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by threeseed »

herbst wrote: post #33
threeseed wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They reached 100M users without any advertising. Purely word of mouth.

Pretty sure there was (and still is) a very obvious button in Instagram, they didn't spend money on advertising is what I understood. At 1.2 billion monthly users that's a pretty average CTR for that kind of thing. A little extra because threads still isn't available worldwide so some traffic was just lost.

Instagram promotion was added in September [1].

Threads reached 100M users in July [2].

[1] https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/threads-banks-on...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/07/10/with-10...

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by Jare »

Offtopic but here we go:

Once Threads became available in the EU I, like I assume many others, made an Instagram account from my FB account in order to check it out.

2 days later, and without having posted anything except perhaps a "Hello world", my Insta account was banned for generic reason (breaking the TOS, nothing concrete). I only found out 2 weeks later, as I hadn't even visited the site(s) again. Their "Appeal" button leads to a request to send a confirmation code to my phone, but no code ever arrives (Spanish phone, not a complicated country). There's no button or link to tell them that it doesn't.

I know of others who have experienced the same thing. Move fast and break things indeed.

Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

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Post by waihtis »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #32
vik0 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The stock market isn't representative of how real world actors are doing at any given moment. I'd recommend reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb. But I'm glad you made money

I find him impossible to understand. It also doesn't help that he is a bully.

congratulations on just playing right into Taleb's hand

whether he's a bully or not has zero effect on the correctness of his statements

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