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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by nonethewiser »

afavour wrote: post #234
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 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…

> 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

The same user data they already have from instagram?

I think you’re missing the real reason they are leveraging instagram. Network effects. Instead of building a social microblogging platform from the ground up they are jumpstarting it by taking the existing userbase and their relations.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by jadtz »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #236
john_max_1 wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So. multiple attempts at cloning Snap, HouseParty, IRL etc. into standalone products were unique. And this one is just a minor tweak on Instagram? Let's discuss this in another 6 months. I can't predict what the future of Twitter is, but Threads would have been shuttered by then.

Snap was cloned extremely effectively within Instagram (stories). So was TikTok (reels). I'm actually surprised they aren't taking the same strategy here. Why create a new app? Why not add Threads to the existing Instagram, in the same way as Stories and Reels?

Instagram would get too bloated if they do that, but Reels + Instagram makes sense.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by amon22 »

ducharmdev wrote: post #250
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #87

Oh, wait, this feels like the start of a cyberpunk story. If TikTok gets banned, where to the users go? Instagram. Threads could replace Twitter. Reddit is going downhill... Maybe Meta could even buy it in a firesale? Outside of chat apps like Discord, Slack, Teams and Telegram (which compete with WhatsApp), Meta will have consolidated most of the world's social media under them. And that's assuming they dont buy out…

The beginnings of a western WeChat?

Ironic because apparently that is the long-time strategy of Elon with Twitter (X app). Off course these plans seem pretty delusional now...

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by kalleboo »

zarzavat wrote: post #671
ymolodtsov wrote: post #601

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great Well, Elon definitely doesn't. > 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 They're using the most popular social network which they happen to own, which already has pre-built social connections for most people who might want to try…

Threads may be very popular among the existing Instagram user base, but the question is whether Twitter users are going to switch. Elon’s understanding of Twitter is poor, but Zuck’s may be worse. After all, there’s a reason that Twitter users have been on Twitter and not on Facebook all this time. Facebook is a byword for a locked down, unpleasant social network experience. Twitter gets all the headlines because it’…

All my IRL friends are on both Twitter and Instagram, but use them for different things due to the differences in content, UI and algorithm. From where I stand I don't see people identifying as "Twitter users who have rejected Facebook" but rather just people who go whenever the action is

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by bentt »

afavour wrote: post #234
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 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…

> The key (and what Zuckerberg covets) is the cachet of it being where journalists and celebrities break news

Nailed it.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by jadtz »

menshiki wrote: post #589
ducharmdev wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The beginnings of a western WeChat?

Meta does not have the support of legislators. The EU would regulate any service that would even aspire to become a Western WeChat way before they have any chance to succeed.

Doesnt EU already have somewhat of a WeChat, everybody uses whatsapp there. Definitely Meta already won that market.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by jadtz »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #700
dado3212 wrote: post #438

Cannot believe that they have a second stand-alone IG spinoff app, and they ALSO called it Threads[0]. [0]. https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-i...

Thats Google level of shutdowns!

No its not, Google kills projects before they even mature. META kills them when they are already dead.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by DrBazza »

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'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion.

No matter how hard I try to keep my Twitter timeline clean of politics, the algorithm fills my timeline.

If Threads doesn't do that, I'm in.

Except it won't, because two decades of social media have taught those companies that 'engagement' is key, so they'll shovel the same *.

> I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion.

Good, but I expect the first movers are going to be the anti-Musk types that tried to go to Mastodon, which means half that "political discourse" will move to a different app. So there will be two echo chambers.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by DrBazza »

pjc50 wrote: post #685
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've not seen anyone mention this yet, but: UK twitter is laughing at "Threads" because it's also the title of a notorious made-for-TV horror film about nuclear war https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/ > There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative I'm not quite convinced by this; I think there's demand for things to go back how they were, but that's unsmashing the glass and is fundamentally impossible. Everyon…

>> There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative

> I'm not quite convinced by this;

Agreed, only the very political types want this. No one else cares.

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