Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ Threads hits 70m sign-ups in two days
Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ Threads hits 70m sign-ups in two days
Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app
Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app
This is fine.
Let him break Elon's market lock, we're probably too techy to do it ourselves. Once the market is split between the two of them, it reduces the core value of twitter, which partly depends on population.
That creates a better opportunity for us, it'll be easier to pull from two smaller services than one larger one. Let's just make sure we don't get lost and forgotten, so keep talking about our "new idea" from time to time. Places asides here. irl is ideal.
Oh my god, we're the arch linux users of social media...
Double Arch BTW. Feels great!
Does Rust count as the Arch Linux of programming languages? If so, you can put me down for a triple.
Intentional sign ups or forced/transferred sign ups is a question I'd like answered
It really depends if they're pushing it through Instagram app, which given the numbers it's likely.
Except for the vocal minority, most people don't really care about Musk to give a damn and move from Twitter to Threads.
They are. Whenever one of your friends on IG posts on Threads, they send you a notification.
The real question will be how many actually stick around. It's pretty trivial to make an account and poke around: it's a different thing entirely to stick around as an active user.
Especially when creating the account is a one way street that can’t be undone without deleting your Instagram account.
I believe that's a bit of a misleading meme that's making the rounds. You can deactivate it, which is functionally the same, and they haven't yet rolled out the feature to delete it because they rushed this thing to market to take advantage of Twitter's dumpster fire.
I also might be slow here, but I struggle to understand why this is a big deal. There are countless reasons why I would have reservations with Meta, but aww shit I can only deactivate not delete the Threads account associated with my source Instagram account seems like a weirdly esoteric hill to die on.
True asshole design right there.
I signed up, checked it out then deleted the app. No interest. When they decouple from ig, I'll delete the account.
I just don’t understand why people would want a timeline they don’t control.
The few minutes I spent checking out Threads just felt like I was being subjected to the advertisement and braaaaaanding version of the Ludovico Technique
It seemed very clear that the entire experience was set up to manipulate you into seeing what they want you to see rather than what you want to curate for yourself.
I really don't have an interest in that sort of manipulation...
dont mind if twitter and threads are fighting each other
That's 70m people oblivious (or cognitively dissonant) to Meta's very well documented past transgressions and abuse and exploitation of people's data. That's really and truly a shame. The neoliberals are just going to move from one platform to another.
That’s 70m people oblivious (or cognitively dissonant) to Meta’s very well documented past transgressions and abuse and exploitation of people’s data.
It's probably mainly people that are already on Twitter and/or Facebook so they're not really giving up anything new. To be honest, at this point I'd probably be more willing to trust Zuck with data. At least robots are relatively predictable, Musk seems unhinged.
The neoliberals are just going to move from one platform to another.
Huh?
I guess by Elon's logic, Ford and GM could sue him since they created EVs before Tesla did.
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at least 7, probably even a lot more.
Over 300 million I think, which Threads is not yet even close to.
I believe 300m was the last count.
That's accounts not people...
Besides bots, there's accounts that have sat there inactive for a decade. There are people with 2-3 accounts for different things.
Last i heard it was over 450 million.
Off the boiling water, into the fire.