Name overlaps with https://threads.com/ ?
Threads, an Instagram app
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Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#862I'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…
Far too late to edit so self-reply: Threads App is banned in the EU for GDPR reasons, so it's probably dead in the water. https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-...
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#863This _could_ be a twitter competitor. But the instance of bundling it with Instagram is what will ensure it fails. Meta have absolutely no common sense when it comes to understanding their audience. If you're going to take on Twitter why on earth would you make Instagram a part of that when the two share nothing in common.
Could it be that you don’t understand Instagram? My circle of friends all rely on Instagram for announcements (mostly local) in addition to seeing updates/photos/etc. Twitter just underserved this market, and Meta realized that Instagram does serve this market, badly. Right now my local politicians have to put their text posts in a square image on a story, but it would be more convenient for them and me if they could post in a text format to their existing Instagram audience.
What I expect to happen is for Instagram to expose how bad Twitter was at converting potential users, rather than for Twitter to expose that Instagram users have no overlap with their use case.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#864I'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…
Calling it now, none of this will happen. Meta doesn't understand how to support the kind of community that people on Twitter want.
RIP Threads, 2023-2024 (generously).
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#865What 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
i look for the same things and i get that out of twitter, its pretty satisfying
you have to engage with what you want to see, if you join in arguments or constantly like posts of a political viewpoint then you'll never find peace
ie, look inward
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
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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…
> "The absurd levels of pornography"
I am an anonymous user on Twitter and never saw any pornography. What do you think did I do wrong?
I get that advertisers and credit card companies get careful here, but I think sanitized content will just never be popular. It won't be restricted to pornography, it never is. No platform is interesting if advertisers and other stakeholders prescribe "positivity content". Instagram was successful because people connected with their friends. They will struggle as well if the platform gets more and more commercialized. Celebs will only ever attract certain demographics. New users might look into new platforms. Those will probably be just as shitty as the last one and the cycle continues.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#867Reminds me of the times when Facebook acquired Friendfeed, a brilliant micro-blogging platform with real-time feed and "like" features before others. Back then, Twitter favs were anonymous while Friendfeed used usernames. It was innovative but it's left abandoned after acquisition until shutting off.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#868Some people have an opportunity to undo twitter’s damage to the world and they just build another twitter? Lame.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
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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…
I don’t think Meta even needs to care about the valuable aspects of Twitter. If everyone on Twitter jumps ship to Meta, Meta will own even more social media and there’s no way that isn’t a win.
Zuckerbot controlling an even larger portion of the public discourse is somehow a good thing?
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
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Facebook should make a LinkedIn copy. LI has taken the majority of the feed eyeball time. LI must have more DAU/MAU than Twitter - most people are just scrolling the LI feed, adding random people to their network (better than adding "friends" on FB), posting/re-sharing longer text+image content.
I'm not the target audience for either, but how is your LinkedIn feed even remotely similar to Facebook? On Facebook I see what my grandmother does, on LinkedIn I see female recruiters posting pictures of themselves with some text about some position they're recruiting for, or how to leverage AI from the same people people who used to push growth-hacking. Completely useless as social media.
LI and FB def not similar. just that whatever is on the LI feed is consumed more.