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Post by pseudopersonal »

sixQuarks wrote: post #263
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…

Couldn’t disagree with you more. Threads will be a flop. The accounts that are most active/followed on Twitter are not the type of people that have Instagram accounts. People with large followings are not going to simply switch, no matter how much they hate Elon.

Threads can succeed on sports alone. NBA/NFL moving from Twitter to Threads will pull millions. And those users are IG friendly

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by dmix »

gochi wrote: post #268
afavour wrote: post #234

Earlier 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…

There's two channels here. From a user perspective "what made Twitter great" is also the least attractive parts for any other company to try and mimic. The absurd levels of pornography, the anonymous fan and joke accounts. From a business perspective, "what made Twitter great" was the easy to digest brands, the non-anonymous accounts sharing their day, and journalists/other named professionals providing up to date in…

> "what made Twitter great" was the easy to digest brands, the non-anonymous accounts sharing their day, and journalists/other named professionals

You should be in sales lol, just sell the B2B folks on ads and sign them up for multi-year deals like Spotify, by selling a tiny set of uber celebrities and brand names that no one gives a shit about enough to switch platforms. Forget what the users are doing which is posting as much as ever.

I'd loved to bring up old HN threads announcing the death of Facebook using similar broad strokes. Apparently Meta is the competent one now because they pigeonholed a cloned feature on their platform + the alternative is no longer cool among the tech crowd on a niche programmer/startup forum.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

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…

Agreed. Everybody here is thinking about how they as technical users have used twitter and use mastodon/bluesky. The general public doesn’t care. Twitter has more friction now and this threads thing seems like it won’t. If Facebook got the permissions/privacy right, this could be their next big thing

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Post by comte7092 »

afavour wrote: post #276
irishloop wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see any evidence Musk understands what made Twitter great, either. At this point, someone just needs to stand up a Twitter clone that can handle the traffic because I think most regular Twitter users are having a much worse experience on there now -- from my own anecdotal experience as a semi-heavy twitter user.

> I don't see any evidence Musk understands what made Twitter great, either. Oh, I totally agree. I just don't think that means Meta will win here.

Meta is an exceptional copier. They might not be coming up with many novel features but they are great at stealing from their competitors.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by Torkel »

captaincrowbar wrote: post #389
Torkel wrote: post #352

I 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.…

1. Facebook has more than 10 times as many users as Twitter. They don't need to add new users, they just need to make it easy for FB users to also use Threads. 2. But the whole point here is that others aren't doing this any more. Threads isn't supposed to be an innovation, just a Twitter replacement. Twitter is dying, Mastodon is too complicated for non-geeks, BlueSky could have been a contender but they didn't get…

1. The people who are possible users of something like this are already on Twitter. The target audience is not all of Facebook, so not 10x.

2. I have seen data that can be used to argue Twitter is slipping. But to claim Twitter is dying is a great exaggeration, based on data. There are perhaps cases where a company will totally mess up something and a replacement can take over, but this doesn't seem to be it.

3. Well, hard to tell. To me the geek information bubble is the conviction that Twitter is dying. Also, I think Zuckerberg is a lot more famous that you account for. But I could not find data on it.

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Post by dotnet00 »

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 feel like this has been being said repeatedly (remember the "Twitter will irrecoverably go down any day this week!" craze from late last year after the layoffs?) and yet hasn't really materialized in a meaningful sense.

Sure, the fediverse has been growing, but most users haven't left Twitter, they've just also made an account on the fediverse. I don't see how this will be any different. It's already normal for people to have both a Twitter and an Instagram account, or even stuff like both a TikTok account and posting shorts on YouTube.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by throwaway290 »

I have Threads on my phone. for a long time I was using it exclusively instead of the trash fire that is Instagram app.

But for more than a year now it says it was discontinued at start, and I cannot login again.

I am so likely to use Threads from Instagram /s

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Post by wilg »

dotnet00 wrote: post #416
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 feel like this has been being said repeatedly (remember the "Twitter will irrecoverably go down any day this week!" craze from late last year after the layoffs?) and yet hasn't really materialized in a meaningful sense. Sure, the fediverse has been growing, but most users haven't left Twitter, they've just also made an account on the fediverse. I don't see how this will be any different. It's already normal for peo…

> It's already normal for people to have both a Twitter and an Instagram account.

This is the key! Because now if Twitter or Elon annoys you, you just delete Twitter and are already on an identical service with all your followers essentially.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by moneywoes »

gochi wrote: post #133
publius_0xf3 wrote: post #118

I was never able to create an Instagram account because Instagram would just instantly ban any account I created for paranoid anti-spam reasons. Apparently this is [a common problem]( https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/85wbk1/banned_im... ). So I'm not looking forward to trying to sign up with them.

They also instantly reverse that if you follow the email prompt/mobile prompt. No idea why they decided to handle anti-spam that way.

Can you elaborate please? I verified the phone number to no avail
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