Facebook buys Instagram then make a Facebook knockoff by Instagram
Threads, an Instagram app
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#332The privacy listing is once again atrocious and a deal breaker for me. Health data? Browsing history? Financial Info? Purchases? Location? Sensitive info? Hell no!!!
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#333Wait, 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.
> A big part of twitter is the web client
Depends on which user base they’re focusing. For people who treat tweeting as work, that’s probably not the case.
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#334I'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…
Just like Google+
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#335The privacy listing is once again atrocious and a deal breaker for me. Health data? Browsing history? Financial Info? Purchases? Location? Sensitive info? Hell no!!!
I'd be surprised if 99.9% of the targeted userbase of this app cares about this. I don't.
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#336When was the last time, Facebook launched a successful standalone product? - WhatsApp - acqusition - Instagram - acquistion - Messenger - acquisition - Oculus - acquisition Facebook has DNA to optimize feeds. It, simply, lack the DNA to build good products from scratch. My gut feeling no one will care about Threads, 6 months from now. EDIT: - Facebook was all-in on cryptocurrencies. The project is fully gone. - Faceb…
You forgot Friendfeed which I believe was the engine behind Facebook feed when it shifted to auto-pull.
Thanks.
TIL.
Updated my comment.
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#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure Threads is a replacement for Twitter, not Reddit
How silly of me! I guess I was hoping for both, somehow. A kind of fever dream where adding site:threads.fediverse.instagram.com to searches works for finding useful human generated content..
FWIW, I feel like that's the next step: there is a natural mapping from Twitter's data model to reddit's and Meta already has experience handing over the moderation keys to sub-communities from Groups on Facebook; that will also make the existence of this separate app really become powerful.
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems closer to the ending at this point (for Twitter).
So, the ending of twitter is to switch to Threads with FB's content moderation guidelines? I don't think so. We have social media fatigue rn. Twitter is is ok to get info really fast, rarely goes down, you have access to all kind of views (from extreme left to extreme right). This is the main reason gab, truth social, etc... won't be mainstream. Fb hasn't been original from a long time. From trying to launch a substa…
The only "extreme left" account I followed on Twitter (Chad Loder) was personally banned by Elon because his #1 priority post-Grimes breakup has been trying to become a made man so the internet fascists will let him into their gang.
There are certainly tankies on there, which is a kind of person that claims to be left but is actually a reactionary.
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#339I'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…
There’s a big graveyard of products/companies that have tried to kill Larry over the years.
Meta has been trying since 2009. Back then, a former, well-known Facebook employee once told me not to join Twitter (thankfully, I didn’t listen). He said they, “have a wall at the office with a list of all the things Twitter does well. Every week someone checks another item off. We’re going to kill Twitter.”
This moment is probably Meta’s best chance. I’d say, if it doesn’t happen this try, it probably never will.
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#340When was the last time, Facebook launched a successful standalone product? - WhatsApp - acqusition - Instagram - acquistion - Messenger - acquisition - Oculus - acquisition Facebook has DNA to optimize feeds. It, simply, lack the DNA to build good products from scratch. My gut feeling no one will care about Threads, 6 months from now. EDIT: - Facebook was all-in on cryptocurrencies. The project is fully gone. - Faceb…
Reels and Stories, while directly ripped from TikTok and Snapchat have probably taken quite a bit of market share from each of those apps from people who already use Instagram as their main platform.
I suspect this has some potential to keep users who were getting FOMO on Instagram from signing up to Twitter.