The logo is eerily similar to the Tamil letter 'ku'. Can anyone confirm if thats the case or what the logo is supposed to mean?
Threads, an Instagram app
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#352I don't get this at all. To me it seems like it will obviously fail.
1. Twitter is all about who is there. How will they make people start posting on this?
2. New platforms take off because they innovate, not because they do what others do but slightly tweaked.
3. I have a really hard time seeing people mass escaping twitter to this du to morals. Facebook/Zuck is just as reviled as Twitter/Musk. If not more reviled. Mastodon has the moral high ground, but still can't take off.
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#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter will persist as long as Journalists stay on it, and everyone paying attention knows that, including Musk.
Journalists are not that critical to it. They actually get paid for contributing to other sites, some of which Musk has now banned like Substack, and they specifically don't get paid to tweet. There are other large communities on Twitter. These include sports, semipro artists, the nation of Japan, people in politics, and a variety of assorted insane people and scammers like crypto, VCs and vaccine skeptics. The reaso…
Your comment makes no sense. Why would a vaccine skeptic be in the same group as a venture capitalist and why would they be in the same group as a scammer. And why do you think two people have something in common because one of them is Japanese and the other is a sport athlete?
This seems like some contrived way for you to just state your hatred towards certain people, and not much more. Keep on hating I guess, but that doesn't say anything about Twitter.
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#355Oh Zuck def sensed the opportunity!
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#356The logo is eerily similar to the Tamil letter 'ku'. Can anyone confirm if thats the case or what the logo is supposed to mean?
Looks like a play on @ sign
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#357Really liked the last time they offered this app (only to subsequently pull it)
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't disagree more. I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great, and the fact that they're heavily branding it with Instagram, using Instagram logins etc suggests to me that they're just looking for another angle to vacuum up user data. Maybe I'm unusual but the accounts I follow on Instagram and Twitter do not have a huge amount of crossover so the fact that their onboarding process tries to…
> I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great To be fair, I don’t think I’ve seen much sign that Twitter understands what made Twitter great, either. (both before and after Musk)
At least pre-Musk Twitter quick to adopt popular user-innovations as first-class features (RT, QT, threads & more); features filtered upwards from users. Musk-Twitter is very top-down in trying to incentivize specific monetizable/political behaviors.
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#359I'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…
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
The key thing for me is whether it's really a text focused app or they ruin it by trying to cross promote Instagram/Reels and turn it into a mindless time suck. If they get the little details right, I see this as the only real competition to Twitter right now. After trying Mastodon for a few months, it's certainly not it.
Agreed. I think this succeeds or fails based on the ability to follow different kinds of things from users separately. If I can follow someone's Threads and not their Reels, I'd be glad to have such an easy migration path off of Twitter (I'm having a lot of fun on bluesky, but it's not ready). I'm not optimistic about that though, because you already can't choose to not follow reels separately from pictures.
Social media needs to be destroyed, not enhanced, empowered or encouraged. Don't give Meta PMs ideas.
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