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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by tech_tuna »

foooorsyth wrote: post #566

Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate? - Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this into IG like they did with Stories (which killed Snap overnight). I wonder how much they’ll advertise the download inside of IG. - Can’t say I like the name. Doesn’t evoke much emotion in me. The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter…

I actually think Threads is a great name. . . it sounds like discussion threads. Also, the name Twitter is beyond awful because it sounds twitty! :)

Seriously, I have no dog in this fight. I stopped using Twitter about a year ago when everything went full Elon. I might use Threads at some point, if it gains enough traction.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by Breza »

sequoia wrote: post #845
manojlds wrote: post #648

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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.

Agreed! Facebook was a very open platform, especially pre-newsfeed.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by jgoodknight »

thirdusername wrote: post #990
foooorsyth wrote: post #566

Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate? - Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this into IG like they did with Stories (which killed Snap overnight). I wonder how much they’ll advertise the download inside of IG. - Can’t say I like the name. Doesn’t evoke much emotion in me. The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter…

Snapchat is overwhelmingly the primary way my much younger sister uses to talk to people of her age, discord is the second. It was quite surprising, I was also surprised people of her age are exchanging discord handles IRL like we used to with MSN/ICQ etc. and then just use it for DMs. She doesn’t even use Snapchat stories because “no one watches stories” and are just direct DMing her friends, and posts general audie…

I am actually a huge fan of Snapchat, but they don’t monetize your younger sister very well because only stories has ads

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by 1583 »

foooorsyth wrote: post #566

Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate? - Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this into IG like they did with Stories (which killed Snap overnight). I wonder how much they’ll advertise the download inside of IG. - Can’t say I like the name. Doesn’t evoke much emotion in me. The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter…

i like the name threads

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by TchoBeer »

duncan-donuts wrote: post #24
photonerd wrote: post #15

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This has been known to be coming for quite a while, so it’s probably just opportune timing on their part being close enough to ready to ship. But hooooly crap does it underscore how much of a catastrophe Musk’s actions are.

Oh I didn’t know that. At any rate those product folks at instagram have likely been salivating for the last couple months. Probably would be an extremely fun team to be on right now.

Imagine being on a relatively niche meta project making a twitter clone and then suddenly twitter starts imploding.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by jamiek88 »

thom wrote: post #735
netheril96 wrote: post #620

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I don't like the name "Threads" either. Probably because I'm a programmer.

I don't like the name. Probably because I'm from Sheffield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

Or indeed anyone in Britain over a certain age! That film scarred me as a kid!

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by aymar_99 »

satyajeet23 wrote: post #988

Why is no one talking about this extremely important and absurd condition of the Threads app! "To delete your Threads profile and data, you'll need to delete your instagram account."

This is just an initial version. Their primary focus is to link the Instagram user graph with threads to build a solid use base. The decoupling should emerge in later versions

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by john_max_1 »

devnullbrain wrote: post #680
john_max_1 wrote: post #667

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Read my comment again, I am asking for a single standalone product that's fully incubated inside Facebook and that's successful.

You won't find one because you've given an arbitrary limitation that is contrary to how Meta do business. Threads is not even standalone because it uses the Instagram graph.

Every other app that I mentioned and is dead used either Facebook or Instagram graph. None survived.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by john_max_1 »

balaji1 wrote: post #505
john_max_1 wrote: post #172

When was the last time, Facebook launched a successful standalone product? - WhatsApp - acqusition - Instagram - acquistion - Messenger - acquisition - Oculus - acquisition Facebook has DNA to optimize feeds. It, simply, lack the DNA to build good products from scratch. My gut feeling no one will care about Threads, 6 months from now. EDIT: - Facebook was all-in on cryptocurrencies. The project is fully gone. - Faceb…

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.

Remember Branch - https://www.cnbc.com/id/47736408 - a LinkedIn killer startup based on Facebook graph?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by [deleted] »

rcme wrote: post #716
coolandsmartrr wrote: post #130

Reminds me of how Instagram absorbed Snapchat usecases with stories. Instagram tackled the competition for ephemeral stories simply by implementing Stories as a feature. This time, Threads is a fully fledged app. Getting users to adopt a new app might take as much time as getting Messenger installed. Still, Instagram has a robust social graph to lead users towards downloading it. In fact, they seem to have already on…

It's funny that there is a narrative that Instagram killed Snapchat with their stories feature. Snapchat still has something like 383M DAU. That's a massive user base. Instagram Stories definitely blunted Snap's growth, especially with millennials and older.

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