I literally don't know anyone who uses Threads.
I literally don't know anyone who watches cricket, and yet it's a world famous sport beloved by many many people. Case in point, it's erroneous to judge an app by your local network.
Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36
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#62Twitter isn't focused on being a microblogging platform anymore, and X has a branding problem worse than that papa John's guy, John Schnatter. I like mastodon, but it has been described as going to a quiet restaurant only to be handed a meat cleaver and an oven. Bluesky's interface is clunky, slow by comparison. It is run by Jack Dorsey who, bless his good intentions, doesn't inspire faith in his management of a good…
Agree with a lot of this but Dorsey doesn't run Bluesky. The project was initiated at Twitter while he was CEO and he's on the board of the company, but he's not the day to day operator.
Which I would also suggest is the most questionable/concerning part of Bluesky: Twitter didn't invest in it in exchange for nothing.
What amount of control might X/Elon have over Bluesky as a company? Jack backing something other than Bluesky post-Twitter is not a good sign.
Re: Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36
#63Threads will probably only keep getting worse with time. Over the past year I've noticed a massive increase in ads on Instagram... Right now Threads is basically ad-free, but that won't last forever.
I know maybe one of two people that sometimes post on Thread, but it doesn't particularly feel like there's a strong sense of community. I think the era of public social media has kinda come to an end, and most interesting conversations have moved to private group chats and community Discord servers.
The only people I've seen participating regularly on Threads are people with massive followings, and even most of those barely seem to get any meaningful engagement.
Right now I just use Twitter to follow artists and a few tech personalities. But for most posters past a certain number of followers opening their replies is just utterly pointless. It's full of memes and irrelevant replies trying to farm views or engagement by leeching off the OP.
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#64Thank goodness for X. Frankly it may make sense to convert it into a non profit in the interim and then for profitize it once it can be run properly. If it were not for X then there is very little hope for American democracy.
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#66I literally don't know anyone who uses Threads.
I literally don't know anyone who watches cricket, and yet it's a world famous sport beloved by many many people. Case in point, it's erroneous to judge an app by your local network.
Perhaps his network is a robust sampling of people from all walks of life, and still he doesn’t know anyone that uses Threads.
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#67If Threads can manage to stick around for a few years I think it’s bound to pick up. Its catalyst might not be the current generations, it could be angling for Gen Alpha eventually.
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#68Twitter isn't focused on being a microblogging platform anymore, and X has a branding problem worse than that papa John's guy, John Schnatter. I like mastodon, but it has been described as going to a quiet restaurant only to be handed a meat cleaver and an oven. Bluesky's interface is clunky, slow by comparison. It is run by Jack Dorsey who, bless his good intentions, doesn't inspire faith in his management of a good…
>"Twitter isn't focused on being a microblogging platform anymore, and X has a branding problem worse than that papa John's guy, John Schnatter."
It is amusing that accessing "X formerly known as Twitter" by typing "x.com" in a browser still resolves to twitter.com. Is there a reason that a CEO who is unbothered by abrupt and radical changes can't or won't retire the twitter.com domain?
Is there a practical reason for this? Certainly "tiwtter.com" being hardcoded everywhere would not rise to the level of an intractable problem.
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#69I find X unusable with all the gore and shock content that makes its way into my feed.
For me it's 2008 Facebook junk memes.
Idk what that says about my watch stats, I swear I hate them
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#70I think if we were to see an X killer I’d much sooner predict Substack does it. I was sleeping on Substack a bit but it has many of the positive qualities of Twitter with many of the downsides removed: * Notes are a short form platform but Substack itself is more long form centric. A huge problem of Twitter was excessive short form creates emphasis on snappy talking points over substance, but Substack more naturally…
Substack has plenty of stigma [1], esp. among the type of people who left Twitter because they don't appreciate Elon's right wing extremism, including endorsement of actual Nazis [2] [1] https://cybernews.com/news/platformer-leaves-substack/ [2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-antisemitic-conspir...
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