Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate?<p>- 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.<p>- 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” in front of it. And the choice of the plural form is interesting.<p>- The logo looks like it belongs to an app that should start with the letter ‘a’. Confusing that they go with a t-word like Twitter but then make the logo look like a different letter. Also, no color? Will it really stay black and white or will it adopt the IG gradient?
“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]<p>Did not expect Fediverse integration from Meta.<p>[1] <a href="https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-countdown-plus-details/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-coun...</a>
Reminds me of how Instagram absorbed Snapchat usecases with stories. Instagram tackled the competition for ephemeral stories simply by implementing Stories as a feature.<p>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 onboarded users when they implemented part of Threads with the status update feature in the Instagram messages view.<p>Twitter will probably remain used by relatively "anti-social" people. In the States, that may be by politicized users, fueled by Elon's freedom fighting. Here in Japan, Twitter is very popular because of the sense of anonymity, coupled with the use of Kanji characters that achieves concision within 140 characters. Instagram might be too social for us (esp. male older than 25).<p>It will probably pain me to see the diaspora of users among many microblogging services. The transition to a new microblogging hub may be painful for both Twitter Inc (ie. X Corp) and Twitter users.<p>It's funny to see that Threads is the re-implementation of Facebook status updates before news articles swamped the Newsfeed. Meta's microblogging came back full circle.
Wait, where is the web version?<p>A big part of twitter is the web client... and embedded tweets all over the internet.<p>Did they start this product by cloning instagram and removing the image centric approach? Why is this not a website first? My gut feel is that this competes as much with instagram as it does with Twitter.
When was the last time, Facebook launched a successful standalone product?<p><pre><code> - WhatsApp - acqusition
- Instagram - acquistion
- Messenger - acquisition
- Oculus - acquisition
</code></pre>
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.<p>EDIT:<p><pre><code> - Facebook was all-in on cryptocurrencies. The project is fully gone.
- Facebook was all-in on Messenger as a platform. The project is gone as well.
- Facebook also launched dating a few years back. That project is dead too.
- Someone pointed out in comments that Feed & Like as a concept was also based out of an acquisition called FriendFeed - https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfeed/</code></pre>
Big signals that Musk made a lot of mistakes with twitter if Meta scrambled to ship a competitor like this. I don’t use Twitter so I won’t use this either but it’ll be interesting to see if the instagram folks can take this market from twitter.
Oh, wait, this feels like the start of a cyberpunk story.<p>If TikTok gets banned, where to the users go? Instagram.<p>Threads could replace Twitter.<p>Reddit is going downhill... Maybe Meta could even buy it in a firesale?<p>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 Discord.
As a Mastodon/Fediverse user, I hope the rumors that this is based on ActivityPub are true. I'd love for there to be an easy-to-use interface for everyone that brings more people and content into the Fediverse.
Cannot believe that they have a second stand-alone IG spinoff app, and they ALSO called it Threads[0].<p>[0]. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-its-companion-app-threads-by-year-end/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-i...</a>
What I dislike about Twitter lately:
- overarching political propaganda
- crypto bros
- AI bros
- profit chads
- constant fighting over idiotic topics, some driven by Musk itself<p>What I care for when I open Twitter:
- news
- hearing from other people from the dev community<p>If Threads can deliver this, I will be hooked
There’s a real opportunity here for Meta, but their success is far from a given. To get this right they are going to need to make some product decisions that aren’t in their nature.<p>#1 should be completely, actually bifurcating the experience from their other platforms. If they want me to use my Instagram login and want to make it easy for me to follow my IG followers, fine.<p>But the temptation to “carry” the network or the content over from Instagram or Facebook is going to be strong for them, because it looks like a baked-in advantage their investors will expect them to leverage to its fullest. In reality it’s the total opposite - I’ll be gone instantly if a bunch of low quality content from people I’m not interested in hearing from (read: that girl from high school I might follow on Facebook.)
I think it is surprising they went with the Instagram branding. Instagram has a better brand reputation than Facebook but I would also say that the brand image is still more for young and fun content, less serious things. Which I would think appeals more to younger people 20-35yo.<p>While what makes twitter great is that it is a more serious platform where you can get the ‘insight’ of professionals (journalists, politicians, etc).<p>That being said, Twitter’s brand is in the toilet right now. Maybe that is enough for this to attract people.<p>I do wonder what the alternative would be? Whatsapp branding? Feels off too… Would it have been better to use a new brand?
I wonder how their logged out web experience will be. I think Twitter has historically (until recently) been very permissive about letting anyone view and embed content from the site and I think that’s helped it become more socially pervasive. Instagram is really popular but has typically locked down the web experience unless you log in.
I was never able to create an Instagram account because Instagram would just <i>instantly</i> ban any account I created for paranoid anti-spam reasons. Apparently this is [a common problem](<a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/85wbk1/banned_immediately_upon_account_creation/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/85wbk1/banned_im...</a>).<p>So I'm not looking forward to trying to sign up with them.
Any guesses on how much you'll be able to read, when following a link with a Desktop browser? Half a thread, or more? Before the inevitable full-page login overlay hits you straight in the face, as they always tend to do.
I'm not into FB/IG, but I'm curious why this was launched as 'an Instagram App', rather than 'by Facebook' or 'by Meta' or something similar?
Interesting product moves.<p>Reinforce insta as a “platform” where features are now labeled as “apps”. Continues to reinforce engagement metrics at insta app level, so big win politically for the insta org inside meta. I’m sure a lot of promos coming down next cycle. Also very easy user acquisition since it piggy backs on existing insta user base.<p>Insta maps more to the public facing vibe that Twitter does, whereas Facebook seems more for friends and family. Insta also more easily monetized than say WhatsApp, so the business moves all track.<p>Overall curious to see what happens to the landscape. At a minimum it may leach away engagement from Twitter, so probably not very favorable for Twitter stock price.
On the fediverse, there's already a huge number of instances planning to block this app when possible as it isn't really in the spirit of the fediverse - it's proprietary, owned by a large company and centralized
I think Facebook/Instagrams very "PC-model" of moderation will allow for Twitter to coexist with them.<p>There's a tangible difference in Twitter now that Musk took over. Raunchy, sometimes offensive jokes are now actually possible on the site. I use Twitter a lot more than I ever did because of it. I don't want Instagram 2.0 with nothing but "models" and stolen videos.
>Share ideas & trends with text<p>The circle of Web 2.X (3.X?) progress continues! This was called the 'Facebook Wall' in 2007. You could write stories, post links, photos, etc. It worked and scaled. Not much longer until they progress into a 'student directory and message' app, exclusively for college and university students.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Facebook_features#Wall" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Facebook_features#Wall</a>
I get it: Twitter is under pressure<p>Love it.<p>But, I generally feel social media is dying in far bigger ways thank just these dilutions.<p>People don't trust it, and are caring far less.<p>They hey-day and the novelty has completely worn of for the majority who are not narcissistic enough to put the energy in to arguing or self-promoting.<p>Reality is here to stay!
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.<p>There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't been able to fulfill it due to scalability and network stickiness reasons. Meta can absorb all of twitter's traffic without breaking stride, and they'll have a userbase in the millions within hours of launch that's able to hop over from IG.<p>RIP twitter, 2006-2023.
Also on Android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.barcelona&gl=it">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram....</a>
- Monopolistic apps are problematic and unreliable for users
- Need for an open standard for communication on these apps, similar to UPI in India for transactions
- These apps are used like utilities but governed as services. It is effectively impossible to exist without big tech products right now, as an individual and as a business. We need to fight for digital rights.
- Communication should be as essential a utility, like water and electricity.
- Centralized apps have too much power over the internet
- Google was useless when Reddit went down
- one clown (Musk) should not have an outsized control on the means of communication. He can't cut my water, and he shouldn't be allowed to cut my communication.
- alternatives are impractical and small and as long as big tech is allowed to throw money and kill/acquire/impede smaller apps we have a problem
- A democratised communication standard would eliminate the need to use specific apps like WhatsApp or Twitter for communication and information.
- this will allow the web to fulfill one of its most important functions, which is, being searchable and archivable.
- profit incentives do not align for big tech to make the internet we want. Small tech will make the internet we deserve.
Seeing as it wasn't linked yet:<p><a href="https://www.threads.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.threads.net</a> looks like where this will live on the web
The privacy listing is once again atrocious and a deal breaker for me. Health data? Browsing history? Financial Info? Purchases? Location? Sensitive info? Hell no!!!
I'm not too familiar with mobile app dev but why is the app 254 MB? I just compiled a 3rd-party Android Reddit app with a different oauth client_id and the apk was 18 MB. What are they packing in there?!
I won't be using this unless it has a web app, and without an Android app, they're freezing out a lot of people who could contribute. This won't go anywhere. BlueSky is just fine.
WSJ really did a great job with this headline: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-looks-to-deliver-hit-to-elon-musk-with-upcoming-twitter-clone-4a464407" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-looks-to-delive...</a>
Twitter competitor is the Facebook app. Everything you do on Twitter can be done on Facebook app.<p>I don't see any use of the threads app.<p>People don't come to Twitter because of the app.
"Keep your username" already sold me. Exhausted with every new namespace landrush. Lemon8 made a terrible mistake not piggybacking off TikTok's, alienating everyone who didn't want to battle anew, and no one is happy with Discord's disastrous rollout.
No mention of federation or Mastodon in the description. I wonder how their negotiations with large Fediverse servers are going.<p>Is there anything else that distinguishes this from existing Facebook products?
I’d really love to see some actual creativity out of the biggest names in the industry, instead of this endless regurgitation of whatever idea got the tiniest bit of traction most recently.
Tried to install it but it was asking for too much irrelevant data so I decided not to.<p>Maybe I am not the avenge user I don’t need an IOS app for text, web is fine.
I can definitely see a gap in the market for this now.<p>The present Twitter alternatives (Mastodon, Bluesky, Spoutible) are just too hobbyist or finicky.<p>Meta will presumably bring an ease-of-use to this service and, crucially, scale from minute 1. They're the building blocks of Twitter's current incumbency position, and Meta/Threads can replicate them straight out the gate.<p>That is a huge advantage.<p>On the other side of the ledger, the utility of Twitter keeps sliding. Not sure how many Hacker News users are Twitter users or what the crossover is, but the whole blue tick 'thing' has reduced the utility in one key surprising way: high quality replies under popular accounts are impossible to find. It's like if you could buy upvotes on Hacker News to get to the top almost. Secondarily to that is the stuff over the last few days with very low rate limits on how many tweets you can view - if you can't use a social network, it tends to stop being useful.<p>While I wouldn't say Threads is a slam dunk guaranteed success, I would say it's the most probable contender of all the ones out there.
Does anyone have any insight into if this a respin of the same Threads app from 2019 or just the same name? <a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/03/threads-instagram-facebook-snapchat-app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/03/threads-instagram-f...</a>
This _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.<p>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.
I think the real longcon of this is to seed people into a TikTok competitor using the existing meta user base who will gladly give it a try initially. It will catch plenty of the Twitter crowd and even reddit crowd but that's just a coincidence of the state of those platforms. Long term I think it will be to agrigate their more active users away from Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat into something that provides the lowest common denominator of all of them so they can slowly erode them as part of the Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook taking a cue from M$
They took the best engineers and lessons learned from the platforms they bought but ideally they don't want to maintain products that do 80% of the same functions
Usually these things take time to ship for a company the size of Meta right ... or ... not?<p>Could it be that this was put in together in a couple sprints as they saw Twitter in a weak position?<p>Or maybe they have a lot of products like this on the bench and release them when the time is right?
From the very limited screenshots, it looks like the IG team have done a great job with the UX. If they stay true to this and keep it focused, I think this will be the winner.<p>Focused UX is something I feel has been really lost by many apps coming out today.
The 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
As others have said, I’m sure this will do really well and is probably close to the final straw for Twitter. I just wish it wasn’t being produced by meta. I really hope that a non-meta competitor is able to gain significant market share.
Looks like they're reusing the name of their messaging app (also "Threads"), that was live between 2019 [1] and 2021 [2].<p>Nature abhors a vacuum, I guess.<p>[1]: <a href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-threads-app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-t...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threads-shutting-down-meta-messaging" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threa...</a>
As others here pointed out, Meta does not have a good history of launching completely new products separately and succeeding in it (except FB ofc). So it’s a wait and see.<p>If they’re going to ride on the coattails of the existing influencers, might make more sense to keep it a feature than a brand new app. The existing influencers would have no extra incentive to spend efforts on a whole new app if they’re addressing the same audience and won’t be gaining new set of audience.<p>Or keep it completely new to excite new wannabe influencers and they will put in the extra effort and drive activity at the beginning.
There's an enormous advantage here in getting people to pivot to this new app in that so many already have an instagram id.<p>If fbook can somehow persuade a few important influencers to switch over on launch day that could get a bunch of instagram using twitter users to download.<p>I'd love to see Blue Sky get traction, but I have to imagine that various government agencies that are looking for a new service to use for their communications are going to be more comfortable pivoting to a Meta product than some new startup.
I feel like the people who are concerned enough to leave twitter over the direction it's going will not jump straight into another app completely controlled by a single person.<p>My guess is they will possibly see some growth from instagram power users who are convinced to try it, but I don't anticipate a mass diaspora from twitter to threads.<p>EDIT: others in this thread are claiming that it may be compatible with activity pub. If that is the case then it may look a little more interesting to those leaving twitter.
Why is no one talking about this extremely important and absurd condition of the Threads app!<p>"To delete your Threads profile and data, you'll need to delete your
instagram account."
I suspect after some time this will fail and will get merged back to Instagram.<p>Instagram is already a "twitter" app they have. I think IG idea is even better: tweet with image. Of course, they messed it up big time with various anti-consumer measures. Why would this be any different?
I am also wondering, if Threads fail – what do they lose?<p>Its the same with Notes of Substack. If Notes fail in 2 years – can they continue? I imagine they already felt negative effect of their move.
My question is, after the twitter fiasco, there is a number of competitors, like skyblue or this threads that have been created to remplace it (I dont count Mastodon, because it was not created to remplaced, but as an open alternative).<p>Why absolutely no big company (MS, facebook, google, amazon, etc...) is attempting the same with Reddit? Not even discord has done any single change to try to steal any userbase from it.
Twitter will take a big hit from this.. given the current situation, will reddit take a big hit as well? it's definitely an interesting time where both blue bird and reddit users are looking for alternatives. Meta has a good track record of running social app, this can be a really successful product with the launch timing if the app fulfil the mass requirements from both sides
Purely from self interest, I hope this wins over Twitter. So I installed it and made an account.<p>When Elon Musk laid off more than 80% of Twitter's workforce (or maybe 90%, the number is quickly increasing), many people said this would prove that a company needed only a handle of software engineers to be successful. If they are correct, it paints a bleak future where software engineer jobs will be forever cut down. I hope Twitter falls so it proves the reverse: a software company cannot survive without enough engineers.<p>While Facebook also laid people off, the percentage is much lower than Twitter. It will be even better if Facebook has to recruit people to win this battle.
If this new app support Web platform perfectly as well like twitter, It could be a bomb. Can't deny that, Previous Twitter devs built the Twitter Web app at a really high level in some way (eg. whatever the PWA tech or UX/UI details). But backwards to today, this previous creature is dying for some reason or someone's reason.
Great, another social media platform that won't have any form of support team.<p>Twitter at least had one you could actually talk to before Elon took over, but Instagram has lacked support contact methods for years at this point.<p>Using a platform where you have no recourse or even method of reaching out if something goes awry is always a dangerous game to play :(
Reminds 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.
Maybe I missed something, but what's the equivalent of subreddits on Threads? I can see how I might discover posts from users that I follow or like -- but I actually don't ever do that on reddit. I just occasionally visit subreddits of topics that interest me, and that's a loose collection of users/content based on geography or interest or otherwise.<p>I feel like hashtags (where you can put them on any message you want) aren't quite the same thing, but maybe that's just because it makes cross-posting more of a blended experience, where I can't tell if replies are linked to the #localcitynearme or the #coffee tag. Their example post about the coffee shop is a great example -- I might be interested in the discussion if it was near me, in which case comments of other coffee shops around the corner might be fantastic. But if I was reading the post because I follow that user for their singing in a jazz band that I listen to, and I live in a different country, it's just total noise that I wouldn't want to read.<p>I've only viewed the 'web app store' page and not the real app store page, maybe there are more details there.
The problem with Facebook's products always comes down to one overriding fact, Zuckerberg's desire to win over everybody else; he's constantly been accused of stealing from people, it's not a surprise everything he owns is either extremely coercive or broken from a technical standpoint
I like that there's some competition in this space. I wish it was someone else because I will never have a Facebook-controlled app on any of my devices again. I simply don't trust them. If it's available on the web and it gains traction, maybe I will use it.
Wow, the stars aligned and shined on Mark Zuckerberg. What a lucky break.<p>Mark my words, the Meta revival story starts now thanks to Twitter and Reddit killing themselves.<p>I think Meta will realize that it is best to stick with what they are good at: Building profitable apps via social interactions.
I have used the threads from meta interface is slicky and smoothy in the first version but it felt down in some features like hashtags,usage limits,editable posts,direct messages,desktop options,NSFW content etc..,.I think they will fix this in future
Instagram booted my account for looking too suspicious. To reactivate the account they wanted me to send a 3D video selfie to verify myself, but that company doesn’t need those sorts of head scans on me. Nope. Account is gone & I’ll never return.
Will be interesting to see how much this is a genuine business for Facebook vs just an opportunistic dig at Twitter/Musk. It's actually been kind of weird watching all the big tech just stand to the side while Twitter implodes.
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”.
I have Threads on my phone. for a long time I was using it exclusively instead of the trash fire that is Instagram app.<p>But for more than a year now it says it was discontinued at start, and I cannot login again.<p>I am so likely to use Threads from Instagram /s
I find it funny that everyone's saying the screenshots look like a Twitter clone. It looks like Facebook to me.<p>I imagine this is as much about capturing the young people not using Facebook as it is about rivaling Twitter, if not more.
Circa 2006: OMG Facebook killed Myspace, Facebook is so great.<p>Circa 2010's: Facebook sucks, let's all move to Twitter<p>Circa 2023:OMG Threads killed Twitter, Threads is so great<p>Circa 2030's: Threads is so lame, let's all move to something else
The way I like to see it, Facebook think of itself as a humanitarian company working mostly in the developing an underdeveloped countries providing them internet communication services.
Never seen a more idiotic response lol. Twitter was there during fb highest time ...people have moved away from meta cra* because of values difference.<p>Hope you are from planet earth BTW.
I think in order for Threads to be successful and compete with Twitter, they will need to stop policing information so heavily as they do on Facebook. Most of my immediate circles left Facebook because of all the tyrannical fact checking notices, suspensions, and "misinfo" policing going on.<p>Whereas Twitter now prides itself in being the free speech absolutist social media app, and information flows freely there. While they do have Community Notes to add context to potential (real) misinformation, at least it's guided by Twitter users and doesn't prevent people from seeing the original post without jumping through hoops, and there's no risk of being suspended for angering the Ministry of Truth, brought to you by government officials looking to cover-up inconvenient facts.
From the bottom of my heart, I hope as many of us as possible will, someday, get a chance to replace the time spent either "on" or "thinking about" the Twitter kind of "addictive, adverstisement supported, high-engagement requiring, tribe re-inforcing, data-siphoning, public discourse worsening" kind of social media.<p>(To be clear: I'm 100% expecting "Threads" to become that in the short-to-medium term, unless they have some specific moderation techniques in place.)<p>This won't make your life "great", mind me. I'm pretty sure it will make it better.<p>Good luck.
I'm so tired of chat apps. Every chat app is the same crap done over and over again... But apparently its 'new' and you need to download it because its the only one X uses, yayyyy. It's like scheduling: the problem was solved already but everyones obsessed with redoing them.<p>Does anyone who works on apps / software / whatever ever consider how tiring it is to have to adopt all this sheet? It's like the digital equivalent of fashion. Literally just waxes and wanes between apps that are all functionally the same based on trends.
Bye bye Twitter.<p>Personally I would not use Threads because of association to FB/Meta. But likely many others will.<p>The only real users left on Twitter will be bots and Musk rats
a replacement for X, signals a Temp/emergency solution, not a new market, if that's the driver with Threads, they've lost it already.<p>tech-giants are so powerful, they don't have to move-fast-to-break-things, a small tantrum/jitter (e.g Musk-twitter, or rush-to-replace) can mess-up a considerable part of the ecosystem around them; including their own finances.<p>happy to try it, out of curiosity.
I don't get this at all. To me it seems like it will obviously fail.<p>1. Twitter is all about who is there. How will they make people start posting on this?<p>2. New platforms take off because they innovate, not because they do what others do but slightly tweaked.<p>3. I have a really hard time seeing people mass escaping twitter to this du to morals. Facebook/Zuck is just as reviled as Twitter/Musk. If not more reviled. Mastodon has the moral high ground, but still can't take off.
Instagram 's ? Why not Facebook's?<p>And why does Instagram need a whole new app for text posts?<p>Are we about to see a hacker news for image posts?
This is going to be very interesting to watch, and I honestly... For all I think about Meta as a company, I have to congratulate them on the timing. They probably pushed hard to meet this deadline the past few weeks in order to coincide with the controversial Twitter decisions lately. Elon Musk is rolling out the red mat for Zuckerberg. It's fun to see tech giants fight it out like this! Reminds me of the Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs days!<p>Having said that, the cultures on Instagram and Twitter are no doubt different. So it's hard for me to tell what will transpire here. However, how much of these cultural differences are due to Instagram not having had a live text feed for breaking news etc. before? And how malleable is social network culture?<p>Threads will also move Instagram closer to Twitter with this. I think how well Meta suceeeds at this is vital to how much of a threat to Twitter this is going to be. Not only this app itself needs to find users; for a real threat they also need to use it for similar things as on Twitter, e.g. politics, a controversial celebrity post here and there, breaking news on the Ukrainian war, earthquakes, imploding submarines...<p>Finally, I wonder how this will affect Facebook! With both a photo feed, a TikTok-style reels feed, Snapchat-like stories, and Twitter-like Threads... This app that is NOT Facebook is certainly starting to look very complete indeed. Facebook is big where I live so I "need" to be on it to stay in touch, but I can see myself residing more and more on Messages and Marketplace alone, now more than ever.
I’m calling it, network effects are very hard to overcome. Users with thousands of follows will have to wait a loooong time to have Threads side to catch up. In the mean time they will absolutely use Twitter along with Threads and the one likely getting abandoned is Threads.<p>New users will find empty content, mostly discussions that are already on twitter but at a small scale and reach
nice, inspired me to write a guide on how to delete your threads account<p><a href="https://jollo.org/LNT/public/delete_threads_account.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jollo.org/LNT/public/delete_threads_account.html</a>
as much as i dislike Facebook/Meta and its galaxy, there's a need for a viable alternative to Twitter especially now with this rate limit debacle.<p>Not only there's this limit but they also broke Tweetdeck which is the only way to really use Twitter
If this gains traction, how long will it take for Meta to enshittify Threads?<p>Facebook and Instagram have been stable, if nothing else... But I feel like Meta is under immense pressure to monetize users as more and more see the "Facebook is for old people and TikTok is draining Instagram" writing on the wall.
Data Linked to You<p>The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:<p>Health & Fitness<p>Purchases<p>Financial Info<p>Location<p>Contact Info<p>Contacts<p>User Content<p>Search History<p>Browsing History<p>Identifiers<p>Usage Data<p>Sensitive Info<p>Diagnostics<p>Other Data<p>wow ok...
lol right like I’m signing up for another Zuck platform.<p>I unfortunately am stuck with the ones I have because of their ubiquity. I would jump ship in a heartbeat if a viable alternative actually took off.
im there. Twitter just announced that they are going to force people to pay for a disgusting "im an idiot" blue checkmark to use tweetdeck, and that is it, we all hate Facebook and Meta but after what Twitter has become, a total cesspool of right wing hatebot accounts and Elon-fellating, Zuck is like a welcome sight.
A lot of people are going to have to think slightly more about their posturing.<p>2021-2023 social media rotating villain vs 2016-2020 social media rotating villain.<p>Oh what's that, I'm hearing a new villain, Mr Chew has entered the stage?
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:<p>Health & Fitness<p>Purchases<p>Financial Info<p>Location<p>Contact Info<p>Contacts<p>User Content<p>Search History<p>Browsing History<p>Identifiers<p>Usage Data<p>Sensitive Info<p>Diagnostics<p>Other Data
The metaverse revolutionized how we work and live. It completely transformed society as we know it, with the largest adoption of any software product known to humanity. People use it for multiple hours daily, and some even started working in it. Integrated with Facebook's metacurrency based on blockchain, the economy shifted towards decentraland, where the best memes and bored apes are exchanged on the marketplace in Dollzucks. The game changer was the integration with Meta's time machine, which allows me to comment in this thread. They're even talking of adding legs to avatars!<p>It's only logical that meta now sets to take over Twitter, which will happen in a matter of months. Their product is superior and contains very few backdoors on its encryption.<p>All hail Mark!<p><i>edit: I now realize that the time transportation function might also take you to an alternate time branch, disregard my comment if it's irrelevant</i>
Disappointing that competitors are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data. This is almost certainly what Elon was referring to earlier this week; the same thing happened with Substack Notes. Hope Twitter pursues legal action against Meta for this.