Threads, an Instagram app

Post by pschuegr » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 3:24 AM UTC

russ wrote: post #319

interestica wrote: post #194

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I feel like Twitter could have launched “Nests” (flocks?) to replace subreddits in the face of a Reddit exodus and pretty much just reskinned twitter for the specific use case. Hashtags as top level organizing taxonomy (to replace subreddit). Then tweets as your “posts” with nested replies. Twitter had the infrastructure to just hit the ground running too.

Lol, I built this exact thing as a 120% project at Twitter in 2011. It was called “Flocks”. It even had transient/temporal flocks based on geo check-in and sound-fingerprint flocks for movies, tv shows, and events. We implemented the Shazam audio signature algo from a research paper we found. The thesis was: it’s more natural for people to have conversations when there’s a shared context. It became a widely known pro…

Post by keyle » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 3:25 AM UTC

ggasp wrote: post #366

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.

Threads.net https://www.threads.net/

Post by vlunkr » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 3:26 AM UTC

babl-yc wrote: post #111

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…

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.

Post by silverlyra » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 3:27 AM UTC

romwell wrote: post #364

russ wrote: post #339

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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 pr…

This would not be Meta killing Twitter, as much as Twitter doing a seppuku and Meta walking over Twitter's corprse.

Post by slimebot80 » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 3:30 AM UTC