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Well, you can't overthrow a government with a piece of cloth. So I still don't see how it could be called an insurrection.
Just because you suck at doing something doesn't change what you're attempting to do. They were there to execute elected officials and attempt to stop required processes in the belief that would invalidate an election they lost. Sounds like an insurrection to me.
Twitter does not need a replacement. There seem to be a popular opinion that it does, but it's not something people are willing to act on. It's a better app than it used to be, overall.
You can't view Tweets without being signed in. API access is banned. Third party apps are banned. A verification badge used to signal trustworthiness, now it can be bought. All your posts are being used to train an AI model without the ability to opt out. Every second Tweet is a crypto scam. How exactly is the experience better than before?
They gave those out to Gawker bloggers. The only think the OG blue checkmark stood for was "someone who was friends with a Twitter insider".
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It reminds me of google plus. Technically better than the existing top dog, but the forced migration and trying to bootstrap with a huge but only semi involved userbase let it fizzle soon after the start. Has there ever been a successful case of bootstrapping a new social media product with an existing userbase? Like not just added features or merging two together.
Not sure how you define "technically better" but in any way I'd add "citation needed". G+ was kinda horrible with a couple good ideas and I think the lack of widespread adoption spoke for that.
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What the hell are you doing or saying to warrant that kind of negative attention?
All you have to be is a proponent of ________ politics, LGBTQ, an opinionated woman, etc and you will receive death/rape threats on twitter. I’m sure 99% of them are bots, but still it can be unnerving. A strong opinion on a contentious topic will get you death threats eventually. That’s why I have DMs turned off and block/mute rather than engage trolls
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The difference in moderation is night and day. Soon after Musk took over, I started having accounts wishing me violent deaths, repeatedly commenting on everything I said with graphic details (broken bones, poisoning, dragging my body over the pavement, etc.). That happened occasionally before, but they typically got banned. After the takeover, those were gone (and my account got blocked a couple of times for quoting…
What the hell are you doing or saying to warrant that kind of negative attention?
The fact that you don’t know and people offer dozens of credible guesses should probably tell you the problem is widespread.
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Well Facebook bootstrapped using the MySpace userbase.
When MySpace essentially died. There was no such void to fill for Google+.
Touch of genius really.
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Just because you suck at doing something doesn't change what you're attempting to do. They were there to execute elected officials and attempt to stop required processes in the belief that would invalidate an election they lost. Sounds like an insurrection to me.
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I would argue the insurrectionists got off relatively lightly. One person was killed and the ones jailed all got far lighter sentences than they deserved.
Which part of "they were there to execute government officials" are you failing to understand?
I don't always agree with the government, but I also don't decide to murder people just because I'm upset, which is what the insurrectionists intended to do.
I still feel that an enormous amount of why threads shows up in data analytics is because Instagram just added it on and made an account for everyone. It wasn't adopted, it was falsely created. I'd go even further to say that it isn't a social network, it's an add-on to another social network.
No they don’t. That’s untrue. The fact that so many replies are speaking as if it’s true is quite telling. Instagram continually pesters me to create a Threads account, but doesn’t just “make one for me”. Threads’ user growth would look very very different if this were true. It’s another app. Instagram won’t even let you expand one of the stupid Threads posts it shows you until you install the app.
Facebook is doing the same with Threads. Sure you don't have a default account, but the pestering works, and it is "tying".
Is it all the ways that matter? The author mentions one way, DAU. Sure, that is important but I can think of other things that matter. The number of “creator” accounts matters just as much as the number of lurkers. From my experience Bluesky is way better and has respect for the user’s choice front and center. Lists of users to follow is a first-class citizen feature. Their algorithm is a chronological feed, not boos…
Here's one metric that matters – revenue per user. Bluesky's is, I assume, zero, and soon that will have to change. Threads meanwhile has the largest social media ads and monetization platform in the world behind it ready to make the dollars flow at the push of a button.
Yet it was definitely the place to go and get the latest updates.