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Post by uptownfunk »

dlivingston wrote: post #173
uptownfunk wrote: post #69

Interesting product moves. Reinforce insta as a “platform” where features are now labeled as “apps”. Continues to reinforce engagement metrics at insta app level, so big win politically for the insta org inside meta. I’m sure a lot of promos coming down next cycle. Also very easy user acquisition since it piggy backs on existing insta user base. Insta maps more to the public facing vibe that Twitter does, whereas Fac…

> ...it may leach away engagement from Twitter, so probably not very favorable for Twitter stock price. Fortunately Twitter is privately owned, so I think they will escape the market reactions this time. :)

Ah, right. Thanks for clarifying that

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Post by notatoad »

photonerd wrote: post #15
duncan-donuts wrote: post #4

Big signals that Musk made a lot of mistakes with twitter if Meta scrambled to ship a competitor like this. I don’t use Twitter so I won’t use this either but it’ll be interesting to see if the instagram folks can take this market from twitter.

This has been known to be coming for quite a while, so it’s probably just opportune timing on their part being close enough to ready to ship. But hooooly crap does it underscore how much of a catastrophe Musk’s actions are.

>This has been known to be coming for quite a while

since before the acquisition closed? i thought i heard somewhere they started working on this january-ish.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by slimsag »

jeroenhd wrote: post #67
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #9

No web version? I guess it makes sense to launch iOS first since those are usually regarded as the highest status users / demographic.

There's an Android version as well. https://www.threads.net/ shows a blank page titled "Instagram" but I'm guessing it'll soon show some kind of website once the server goes live.

It shows a countdown timer with a QR code now.

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Post by latenightcoding »

rayxi271828 wrote: post #153
mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…

I hope Threads won't exhibit the same hostility towards the users as IG does. (What's up with IG and its hostile UX? Videos can't be fast forwarded or tracked at all, profile pictures can't be zoomed, clicking on it brings you to stories, images can't be copied easily, etc.)

And you can't hide who you are following (even tho you can on fb), which is a big deal.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by notatoad »

keyle wrote: post #189

Wait, where is the web version? A big part of twitter is the web client... and embedded tweets all over the internet. Did they start this product by cloning instagram and removing the image centric approach? Why is this not a website first? My gut feel is that this competes as much with instagram as it does with Twitter.

>where is the web version

... not on the iOS app store?

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Post by dhruval »

mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…

I am willing to take the other side of this bet.

Not because I love twitter but rather because of the following

1.Network effects are just that powerful.

2. This looks like a group chat killer rather than a Twitter killer.

So I think the blue bird will go on to live a rather long life.

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Post by [deleted] »

rayxi271828 wrote: post #153
mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…

I hope Threads won't exhibit the same hostility towards the users as IG does. (What's up with IG and its hostile UX? Videos can't be fast forwarded or tracked at all, profile pictures can't be zoomed, clicking on it brings you to stories, images can't be copied easily, etc.)

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Post by thrdbndndn »

vineyardmike wrote: post #200
keyle wrote: post #189

Wait, where is the web version? A big part of twitter is the web client... and embedded tweets all over the internet. Did they start this product by cloning instagram and removing the image centric approach? Why is this not a website first? My gut feel is that this competes as much with instagram as it does with Twitter.

Instagram has a web version, and the ability to HTML embed instagram posts, so it seems likely that this will have a web version.

Instagram's web version has a serious bug that when you scroll down fast enough, it constantly loads the same content again and again.

This bug has been there for months and basically renders it unusable.

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Post by yieldcrv »

mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…

I think Crypto Twitter and Racial Insensitivity Twitter will be pretty sticky over there

between the OnlyFans models and AI bots roasting people on demand, its a bit of an amusement park!

Believe it or not, there are also group chats in the DMs

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Post by wholinator2 »

heyoni wrote: post #166
shaunxcode wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am completely ok with this. Let the mainstream have their thing and keep mastodon weird. Right now it’s got a usenet/bbs vibe and I love it. That goes away as the mainstream/tide comes in.

Totally agree with that. It’s kind of like Reddit vs HN, the latter of which I’m done with..:I just feel more like a person here

Latter refers to the item at the end of the list, i.e. that HN is the one you're done with. Prior is one of the words that's acceptable to refer to the start of the list.
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