Maybe it’s me, but I would have just made this a core expansion of Instagram and had a photo feed and a thread feed that you can easily change between. Pick your default. Seems dumb to have two different apps, both branded “Instagram”.
Threads, an Instagram app
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#842I'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 don't think so. No Twitter clone, or Twitter consept is going to replace Twitter. What made Twitter big, what made Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, big is that they all brought something new on the table. Blueskye, mastodon etc. don't. It's just the same. People that are active on Twitter have spent years to make a following, and there are no reason to go over to another app and create that same following again. W…
Mastodon/fedi certainly brought something new to the table (microblogging with close-knit communities), it just isn't a technical feature nor something that's meant to "scale".
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#843“Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find you with your full username @username@threads.net.” [1] Did not expect Fediverse integration from Meta. [1] https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-coun...
Adam mosseri clarified about one way vs two portability on his thread
https://www.threads.net/t/CuRtcYTNY3J/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA...
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#844I'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…
Why is there a demand for a alternative? I dont see any signs. All channels I follow. I mean large channels like brands, politicians etc are still using twitter. Nothing changed there.
And what is the parallel between instagram and twitter? Indeed. Nothing. Meta completely lost his mind here
Talking about young people. Snapchat and Tiktok is what they use. Noone uses meta anymore. Most people before 16 dont even have a Meta account.
Meta the new Yahoo.
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#845Earlier quoted context omitted.
They used to run an XMPP bridge on chat.facebook.com
Used to being the keyword.
Yeah talk about good old days. Pidgin or Adium (or Finch, in the terminal), I could have google chat, facebook chat, and even IRC in one app. Throw OTR plugin on that & I we had end to end chat encryption over google & facebook. Very sad day when they shut these down.
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#846I'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…
Instagram stories are a successful competitor to snap
Insta reels are a successful competitor to TikTok
FB marketplace is a successful competitor to Craigslist
FB Messenger is a successful competitor to iMessage
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#847I'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…
Saving this comment to laugh at later thanks
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#848What I dislike about Twitter lately: - overarching political propaganda - crypto bros - AI bros - profit chads - constant fighting over idiotic topics, some driven by Musk itself What I care for when I open Twitter: - news - hearing from other people from the dev community If Threads can deliver this, I will be hooked
Threads need to realize the importance of the blue check and implement it. Prior to Musk, I would see a tweet, open the replies and look for the blue checks to see what "prominent" people were responding. Now that the blue check means nothing, that's impossible and you have to weed through all the content. You can argue that's a good thing, that a person with 10 followers might be as interesting as someone with 100,0…
They are already doing it via Meta Verified, which is already a big step us vs Blue since they actually check your id
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#849Earlier 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. First mover advantage and already existing userbase. Its the Windows of Operating Systems. Market domination.
How can Twitter be a Windows of anything? It is a tenth of Facebook's size, it's unprofitable and it can't bend any tech partners to its will, as shown by the Google Cloud situation.
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#850The App Privacy Label on this is crazy It says it will collect and link health, fitness, financial, browsing history, usage data, purchases, search history, sensitive information etc Instagram doesn’t track that much, but Facebook does