Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours

Honestly this is what I think everyone has wanted for a while. It&#x27;s a stripped down version of Twitter from years ago without any of the nonsense and ads, and a straightforward ui&#x2F;ux. And it already has your profile information from Instagram and everyone you already follow and&#x2F;or friends with so there is little to no setup required which makes the onboarding essentially one or two taps.<p>edit: and yes I know the irony of &quot;no ads or nonsense&quot; (yet), but as a way of getting people to join (in the near term) its a pro.

It is Facebook. People who are in that ecosystem will use it, whereas those of us who aren&#x27;t will not go anywhere near it.

No web&#x2F;desktop version is a dealbreaker for me

I wonder how soon Meta moderation policies will kill this platform.<p>Elon of course abuse his power to ban those he dislike and to ban trackers of his plane (and to help some dictator war criminals while he at it), but Facebook &#x2F; Instagram censorship and bans are pretty random, harsh and irreversible.<p>Platform by Meta likely mean that good chunk of Twitter audience is not allowed to use it: some journalists reporting on war crimes, OSint, anything related to porn and gambling, sex workers, etc. Twitter is full of shit, but at least I have a choice to look at whatever I want without corporate nanny censoring world for me.

Again though if you want a fresh account based on a specific area of interest to work from, Meta will not let you. They need your real name your real phone number and have the all profile details for your phone (Android permission). Nope.<p>On twitter I have a handle and it follows other 3D XR accounts and thats all I am interested in. It&#x27;s social but its within a specific professional context.<p>I still have no idea why Meta will not let you keep separate identities. It might have been prevailing wisdom when Facebook and LinkedIn got started but it is anachronistic now in the 2020s

A pretty terrible initial experience of being thrown into a pit of blue checked instagram influencers that I do not recognize or care to follow.<p>I am not sure how much I&#x27;ll use this unless it receives a feature to filter out the white noise of terrible suggested posts from the algorithm.

Hard pass. No longer doomscrolling and chasing adrenaline fixes on social media has improved my quality of life immeasurably. Obviously to each their own, but I&#x27;ve given up looking for a non-toxic social media platform.

&gt; Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours.<p>Fragrance of Google+.

Anyone else getting a Same Origin Policy error in Firefox? Threads.net doesn&#x27;t work at all for me on FF.

This is not the Musk&#x2F;Zuckerberg fight I wanted to see. :(

I wanted to sign up but it looks like it&#x27;s only available for mobile. Guess I don&#x27;t get to be 5M+1!

&quot;of course, morphine is the heroin we&#x27;ve all been waiting for&quot;

At this rate, in its first 24 hours Threads will probably accumulate more user accounts than Mastodon has in its 7 year history. (~13.2M at the moment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@mastodonusercount" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@mastodonusercount</a>)

oh wait a minute, mobile app only? you can&#x27;t fool me, not after the catastrophe that was the facebook app...

There is this div at the bottom &lt;div class=&quot;AdBox Ad advert post-ads&quot;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;

I wonder if anybody tested it&#x27;s ActivityPub feature. Is it actually supported?<p>Thanks in advance.

Looks like they&#x27;re having some performance issues - loading a profile doesn&#x27;t seem to work:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;@zuck" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;@zuck</a>

NYT&#x27;s Hard Fork podcast did an interview with the one of the key people working on Threads. If you were curious about the official Meta position on all your concerns and want answers to questions you have, that&#x27;s the one to listen to.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;special-episode-metas-twitter-rival-arrives-with-adam-mosseri.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;special-episode-...</a>

Given Instagram’s 2.35 billion users, is 5 million a lot?<p>Im genuinely curious. Don’t get me wrong, the headline number <i>looks</i> impressive, but isn’t 1 million &#x2F; hour kind of expected at this scale?

[dupe]<p>Merge&#x2F;see more discussion over here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36609632">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36609632</a>

Any info on when the app will become available outside the US?<p>edit: not sure why I‘m getting downvoted, didn’t realize it was mostly about me being in Europe

Meta does ~3B DAU, so this is about 0.16% of that.

App required and no Apple login? No thanks

I am very much enjoying the ui, and feel like twitter is killing it&#x27;s network effect while this is doing the opposite for now. This won&#x27;t be the end of twitter, not globally. Some say Pepsi was the best thing to ever happen to Coca-cola.

Surprised to see a non-acquired, non-Facebook app developed by Meta succeed

So you&#x27;re saying the Bots got there first... =)

Cool, now all we need is an Apollo app for Threads. Something to filter out all the &quot;suggestions&quot; they give for who to follow.

Still not available in my country. I never understood this especially by META which already has all it&#x27;s apps available here.

I also remember how that social network from google got to 15Milion users in no time... We know the rest of the story

No advertisements? Is that a conversational data collection tool? What is the TOS? What kind of data are they upvoting ?

Federated Authentication (using Instagram) and UI is smooth. It just might work.

The UX is much better than Twitter IMO. I like how easy they made the onboarding

2023 and a basic website doesn&#x27;t work on firefox why?

If threads can’t kill twitter, nothing can.

Fuck Facebook.

About as believable as Facebook video counts?

Twitter has became soo weak that even Meta decided to forget about status quo and build alternative.

I need another app on my phone like I need a hole in the head. What makes this better than, say, Facebook&#x27;s news feed?

Surprise said no one, this is literally every single political entity in the world trying to get in a day zero a FUCKING SHILL.