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Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

#52
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter had verification based on the account's noteworthiness, and now it doesn't. That was one of the main features of Twitter, and now Threads.net has it.

What does "noteworthy" mean? Who decides what's noteworthy?

You can look that up yourself.

Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

#55
Is there an API? Ultimately, I want to follow my friends' threads/tweets whatever and talk in our private Slack. First there was native integration with Slack, then I could jury rig mine, but now they made it hard on Twitter. Does Threads have the ability to do this? I will not puppeteer this. I want to fire and forget, not arms-race someone.

Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

#56
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter had verification based on the account's noteworthiness, and now it doesn't. That was one of the main features of Twitter, and now Threads.net has it.

What does "noteworthy" mean? Who decides what's noteworthy?

It's always, eventually, exactly the people who you don't want deciding what is/isn't noteworthy.

Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

#57
post #48

> @zuck seeing that freaks face made me physically shudder. If they were smart they would distance this product from him as much as possible. it should be painfully obvious that he is toxic for this and any brand. pay him whatever, let him stay in charge, but please for the love of god STOP PUTTING him as the face of anything.

I dunno, he's kinda growing on me. If people can like Elon, why can't they like the Zuck? Zuck is clearly more level headed than Elon, which to me makes him more likeable. Embracing the zuck monikor was a real power move, given that up until this point most people use that name in a disparaging manner :D
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