Threads Usage Drops By Half From Initial Surge (similarweb.com) 167
Despite being the fastest-growing online platform in history, Meta's Threads is struggling to retain regular customer engagement. According to SimilarWeb, the Twitter rival saw daily active users decline from 49 million on July 7th to 23.6 million on July 14th. Furthermore, usage in the United States declined from 21 minutes per day to just over six minutes in the same time period. Here's are the key takeaways from the report: - On its best day, July 7, Threads had more than 49 million daily active users on Android, worldwide, according to SimilarWeb estimates. That's about 45% of the usage of Twitter, which had more than 109 million active Android users that day.
- By Friday, July 14, Threads was down to 23.6 million active users, or about 22% of Twitter's audience.
- Usage in the US, which saw the most activity, peaked at about 21 minutes of engagement with the app on July 7. By July 14, that was down to a little over 6 minutes.
- In the first two full days that Threads was generally available, Thursday and Friday, web traffic to twitter.com was down 5% compared with the same days of the previous week. Although traffic bounced back, for the most recent 7 days of data it's still down 11% year-over-year.
- On the days of peak interest in Threads, Twitter's Daily active users on Android, worldwide, were virtually unchanged, but time spent was down 4.3% -- perhaps because some users were off trying Threads. Even with that drop, however, the average total time spent on Twitter was about 25 minutes.
To a large extent, Threads solves the "empty party problem" that makes it tough to start a new online community by allowing Instagram users to instantly create a Threads account, bringing their existing contacts with them. Our daily usage numbers make Meta's claim of having achieved more than 100 million total account signups in a matter of days seem reasonable. However, Threads is missing many basic features and still needs to offer a compelling reason to switch from Twitter or start a new social media habit with Threads.
- By Friday, July 14, Threads was down to 23.6 million active users, or about 22% of Twitter's audience.
- Usage in the US, which saw the most activity, peaked at about 21 minutes of engagement with the app on July 7. By July 14, that was down to a little over 6 minutes.
- In the first two full days that Threads was generally available, Thursday and Friday, web traffic to twitter.com was down 5% compared with the same days of the previous week. Although traffic bounced back, for the most recent 7 days of data it's still down 11% year-over-year.
- On the days of peak interest in Threads, Twitter's Daily active users on Android, worldwide, were virtually unchanged, but time spent was down 4.3% -- perhaps because some users were off trying Threads. Even with that drop, however, the average total time spent on Twitter was about 25 minutes.
To a large extent, Threads solves the "empty party problem" that makes it tough to start a new online community by allowing Instagram users to instantly create a Threads account, bringing their existing contacts with them. Our daily usage numbers make Meta's claim of having achieved more than 100 million total account signups in a matter of days seem reasonable. However, Threads is missing many basic features and still needs to offer a compelling reason to switch from Twitter or start a new social media habit with Threads.
Not surprised (Score:5, Insightful)
Saw that coming. If they can gain users that quickly, they can lose them just as quickly also.
Re:Not surprised (Score:4, Informative)
No one is lost. People just reduced playing with the new thing. Honestly drawing any conclusions in the first month of a new service is just silly. The initial high spike was not all new customers, mostly just a realestate grab, this wane in interest here is not lost customers, just a plateau to what is likely normality after the honeymoon is over.
In other news I used my Steamdeck about half as much this past week than I did the week before. Why? Because it was new the week before and I was doing all sorts of senseless playing around.
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They also said they blocked access through some VPN which blocked EU users: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p... [arstechnica.com]
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Did they even gain users? I'm sure people are just out there trying to claim usernames and then logging right back out.
Re: Not surprised (Score:2)
Re:Don't worry, they'll be back... (Score:5, Insightful)
A lot of phones already ship with preinstalled facebook, pretty much all young people have a phone, and yet most young people wouldn't be caught dead on "parents' platform" that facebook has become.
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Re: Don't worry, they'll be back... (Score:2)
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Said no marketer, ever.
Re:Don't worry, they'll be back... (Score:4, Interesting)
Children have no money, this is right, but you'd be surprised just how many decisions in a family are eventually made by the kids. And not just concerning breakfast cereals or the brand of soda.
A car company (IIRC it was Toyota) ran a marketing campaign in the late 80s and 90s here with funny talking animals. It was a WILD success. Even though everyone above the age of 16 was thoroughly appalled of it. Those ads were very prominently placed during programming that had a heavy 8-14 demographics. Everyone was wondering why the hell a car manufacturer runs ads during kids' TV.
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yes and its also worth considering, "they grow up fast" pretty fast in corporate terms too. I consider get that 10 year old imagining themselves bolting an oversized wing to the deck lid of a Celica and it is less than six years before they are begging mom and dad for a sixteenth birthday gifts.
That might not be the hyper short term next quarter profit focused marketing strategy of today but it certainly was something a Japanese company 30 years ago was thinking about.
Given how much Meta is still owned by i
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Young people don't have a lot of money, but most of what they have tends to be disposable. Adults have to be somewhat frugal in order to pay the bills, especially at the start of a recession.
Re: Don't worry, they'll be back... (Score:2)
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Not reallly. Historically advertising during children's cartoon shows was profitable, enough to fund the shows and more. That's because of all the whining for stuff that was advertised, whining for the right type of cereal, etc. Marketing to kids is highly profitable. Kids are even more gullible than adults.
Re:Don't worry, they'll be back... (Score:4, Interesting)
Even Google couldn't save Google+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Google+ (sometimes written as Google Plus; sometimes called G+) is a defunct social network that was owned and operated by Google until 2019. The network was launched on June 28, 2011, in an attempt to challenge other social networks, linking other Google products like Google Drive, Blogger and YouTube.
Re:Don't worry, they'll be back... (Score:5, Interesting)
Google was oddly stupid about how they did it.
For some reason they used the same model they used for Gmail, where you had to be invited. That was a big mistake. While Gmail is useful on its own, a social network is only useful if you have people to socialize with. Making it work like an invitation-only club only resulted in people finding an empty wasteland when they joined.
Meta seems to be doing it much better. You have Instagram? Your account will work and apparently stuff carries over.
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The invite model is to make sure that the system scaled properly as it grew. Instead of an empty wasteland it would have been a crashy unstable wasteland with nothing unique to offer. I don't think that would have saved them either.
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Its easy to see that in hindsight but in defense of Google
1) They had just enjoyed a hugely successful roll out of GMail, and its pretty natural uncritically repeat a successful formula.
2) 'club' is the operative word 2011 was long time ago on the internet. Marketers did not want to be AOL or Myspace back then, not seen as 'cool' and advertisers their real clients want 'cool', of course ultimately eyeballs matter even more than 'cool' but entire invite thing was probably also looked at as a way to make it '
Uses the same garbage algo that Instagram uses. (Score:5, Insightful)
There is no option just to see the feeds that you are subbed to, they force feed you political wonks, sports chuds, and rando influencers.
This ain't 2009, no one wants a non-curated social media feed firehose like ol'school Facebook.
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That and they're still heavily policing innocuous (AND FREE) speech.
People see that and run.
And the people who were BEGGING for that sorta thing, like that idiot Taylor Lorenz, are finding that it REALLY doesn't treat them well.
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AFAIK, this setting isn't in Settings, but instead you have to select it from the pop-up menu on a suggested post itself.
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they're looking for a site they don't even have to sign up for that they can be force fed garbage.
We never saw the Internet in Idiocracy (unless I forgot that part of the movie) but I'm sure it would look a lot like this.
Usual Meta Money Pit (Score:5, Insightful)
I went to sign up but was immediately turned away because it required an Instagram account. Not sure why they'd shoot themselves in the foot like that. I don't use Instagram, and am not interested in signing up. If they really want to be a Twitter competitor, just let me sign up with my email. Seems like it's the usual Meta story... dumb decision after dumb decision.
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It gets worse. All the terminally online leftoid "Elon is a nazi and destroyed my ability to get people fired via twitter outrage" crowd are currently whining that not only are they getting banned for trying to pull that shit on threads... but since most of them are women, they really care about their instagram accounts.
And if you get banned on threads, you get banned on instagram. So the reactions have been almost as good as the reactions of terminally online rightoids on twitter to recent clip of Trump sa
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It gets worse. All the terminally online leftoid "Elon is a nazi and destroyed my ability to get people fired via twitter outrage" crowd are currently whining that not only are they getting banned for trying to pull that shit on threads... but since most of them are women, they really care about their instagram accounts.
Oh wow a fascist and sexist moron.
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I find it funny everyone losing their minds at "leftoid" as if your comment wasn't actually bipartisan disdain lmao (of course they stopped reading at "leftoid" and missed the "rightoid" dig). In any case, I agree with the genuine hilarity lol.
Re: Not to sea lion or anything (Score:2, Insightful)
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/07... [techcrunch.com] is an interesting example. "You get banned for shitposting or sexual content on Threads, why isn't it more open like Twitter except only allowing OUR shitposting?"
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If you'd actually read the Twitter Files instead of being an intellectual coward, you'd have seen a very large number of examples of exactly what you ask.
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It's not even that you're lying to others. You genuinely believe that far left doesn't attack people on the right as a matter of norm. The depth of delusion is real. And you even think that Steven Crowder is homophobic and transphobic, because you genuinely believe that you disagree with activists claiming to represent such people as a group is to have uncontrollable fear the group, and that uncontrollable fear of the group is somehow a conscious thing. It's an ideology that is built on so many internal contradictions that there's no way of resolving any of them through anything but accepting every lie and moving on lying to oneself to maintain the facade.
Of course we attack people on the right like Steven Crowder and other bigots and fascists. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that fucking them up isn't the goal.
Re:Not to sea lion or anything (Score:5, Informative)
"Leftoids". Okay buddy.
I seem to recall the early casualties of Thread's moderation policies were all on the political right. Several Republicans had their accounts labelled as frequently posting fake news, for example.
The fact that Threads doesn't tolerate literal Nazis is seen as something of a selling point by most people. Despite what Elon seems to think, most people don't really want that stuff in their feeds.
Speaking of Elon, he tried to ban the word "cis" on Twitter. So much for his dedication to free speech. Literal Nazis with swastika profiles, fine. Culture war bullshit trying to label a simple adjective that is used to clarify meaning and with no negative connotations (except in his head) - banned.
Well, it would be banned if his staff were willing to enforce it. Apparently they aren't.
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"It's ok when we do it, but not ok when you do it".
I'm personally a deep believer in MAD. Political left in the West has basically destroyed civility in the West by openly seeking to and destroy lives of anyone that opposes them and often succeding.
The only way to return civility in this case is to fight fire with fire. Leftist calls someone "cis"? Dig up the modern left's playbook: pressure his employer to fire him, pressure his family to abandon him, have a mob chase him and kick him in the head repeatedl
Re:Not to sea lion or anything (Score:5, Informative)
Since you seem pretty far entrenched into the camp that resorts to "otherisms" to define anyone who doesn't think like you, please tell me this: how often do "leftoids" lead our sentences with some derogatory name for your party? Go ahead, do your own research. But from my perspective, every other sentence that comes from the mouths of your party involves some form of "libtard", "woke", "snowflake", "cuck", etc. Only very rarely do I see someone from the left use a derogatory label like "republitards". But your party is practically indistinguishable from third-grade name calling. That must be why you all love Trump so much.
Oh, please tell us all about our genocidal tendencies, while you continue to rally about building walls to exclude people while firmly protecting your right to commit massacres whenever your trigger finger gets a little too itchy.
Re:Not to sea lion or anything (Score:5, Insightful)
Wow...you must not only NOT be looking at all, but walking with blinders on...
The left is VERY active with name calling...
One of their favorites is, anyone they disagree with they call "racist".
I see claims of this on Slashdot far more than I see the actual behaviour. Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure it happens. Any large enough grouping of people is going to have it's shit bags in it. On Slashdot at least I just feel like I see these claims of victimhood far more than I see the negative behaviours they purport to be victimized by.
Meanwhile we have Luckyo claiming above that all Leftist are just a step or two away from Pol Pot and are going to murder him because he wears glasses. https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]
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One of their favorites is, anyone they disagree with they call "racist".
I see claims of this on Slashdot far more than I see the actual behaviour.
You must not use Twitter. Twitter users routinely behave in ways that make third graders say, "wtf?" It was actively encouraged by the previous Twitter administration because it "improved engagement".
For that matter, you must not have any contact with college-age kids either. College kids have been indulging in purity tests that would make Brown Shirts blush for the past seven or eight years.
There's a certain very small but very vocal minority who pursue race-baiting with religious fervor. Be grateful y
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And by pushing agendas, you mean getting rid of racism and racist policies for one. Calling out ideas as racist is sort of necessary - it's usually the idea that's called racist and not the person by the way. If there weren't so much disguised racism it wouldn't have to be called out all the time.
Re:Not to sea lion or anything (Score:5, Insightful)
It's funny how you constantly spew a stream of hate at Leftists all while claiming that's what they do. You literally attack people on the left "as a matter of norm", that's what you do all the time on this site, and yet you're the one claiming victimhood. You do this all while constantly claiming "leftist hypocrisy" and I don't think you see a single bit of irony in any of this.
I bet you even have a super good excuse though like "they did it first" or something similarly nonsensical.
Also, "leftoids"? What on earth are you even trying to do with that?
Re: Not to sea lion or anything (Score:2)
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Oh, absolutely.
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So leftists are all racist nazis in your estimation?
Re: Usual Meta Money Pit (Score:5, Insightful)
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"Not sure why they'd shoot themselves in the foot like that. "
There's zero chance that someone morally opposed to one Meta product would willingly sign up for another Meta product. They haven't actually lost any users that way. Meanwhile, they leverage the account infrastructure they already have.
Sucks to be Zucks (Score:2)
No Web interface, no sale... (Score:5, Informative)
One can view linked communications on Threads via the web, but needing an app in order to any meaningful interaction with the social network gets old. Phones are nice, but to get real work done, it is a lot easier on a decent screen, with a good keyboard. Even Truth Social offers a usable Web UI, which is one of the few things I'll state in its favor.
Get off the highway boomer! (Score:2)
Who needs a web interface when they got an app?
It's like all these peope boasting about their fiber internet connection why I do everything with my mobile phone.
Re:Get off the highway boomer! (Score:5, Insightful)
It's a pain in the ass to do anything on a smartphone.
As for apps, you wouldn't put up with installing a program on your computer for every thing you do on the web, so why do you put up with that crap on your phone?
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If you could view it on a browser you could block the ads and all the tracking they want to do.
Ya, everyone made an account because it was easy.. (Score:5, Interesting)
I think this is bigger than one platform or another, I think free social media is dead as a concept. Gaming it out, any platform that relies on growth metrics and advertising dollars will eventually have to destroy their own platform. Eventually, the needs of the advertisers and the needs of users will find themselves in disagreement. If only one of those groups is payin', then that's the group you're going with.
We need smaller, user-supported social media platforms with human moderators. This model can be sustainable (have mod hours directly hooked up to the subscription fees at a capped ratio). This model can create the kind of digital town square we all want from the internet. It just can't create passive income...so maybe I'm crazy for even suggesting it ðY£ðY£ðY£
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Mastodon is DOA and has been so for a long time. And reddit rapidly degenerated into the worst of humanity commanding power and abusing everyone else. So model you're suggesting is not desirable by real users. It's also a hell of a mirror of real society, where people are actually just animals capable of abstraction with all the instincts of large predatory mammal and not some idealized beings.
In fact, Twitter seems to be ultimately the best tool for human condition. It's not the thing we want, but it's the
Twitter works because you get what you choose (Score:4, Interesting)
I haven't left Twitter yet for anything else because I only see who I follow.
I have a few different Twitter accounts, like one for programming, and one for photography.
Each one has posts I enjoy seeing, with good content.
In part that is because Twitter has great management tools.
I can mute specific keywords so if people I like start in on politics I don't want, those posts are gone.
I can mute some people for a while if they go really crazy, or just block some altogether if they are annoying.
Every now and then I look at the Algo feed and choose few new people to follow, that look really interesting.
Why would I want to go anywhere else?
Some people's answer seems to be "well because these EVIL NAZIS exist on the platform". Not to me they don't, I don't follow them and nothing I do would recommend them to me.
In real life people you don't like also exist, why freak out if the same is true on Twitter?
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I haven't left Twitter yet for anything else because I only see who I follow.
As long as you notice when Twitter randomly switches your feed to "For you" instead of "Following" and switch it back.
Re: Twitter works because you get what you choose (Score:2)
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Mastadon isn't one site, it's for any site that wants to have a Twitter style UI for content.
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Mainline Mastodon instance where overwhelming majority of non-pedophile Mastodon communities are on the other hand is indeed one site.
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Oh, the irony of the right calling the left peods [mass.edu]...
I swear, every accusation is a confession you freaks.
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What are you on about?
I noted that the main instances of Mastodon after the purges from a lot of SV platforms a couple of years ago in the wake of that new US law, a lot of pedo groups migrated to one of the five or so Mastodon instances they themselves host.
Of which two survived to become biggest non-mainline Mastodon instances currently in use.
Nothing to do with political divide. That law was bipartisan you insane wingnut.
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Technically, Mastodon doesn't have to favor any one UI style. It's more about protocol and federation. Implementation could lead to any sort of layout details. Though I could be wrong - I doubt I'll ever use it unless I take the time to set up my own instance.
Even with a 50% drop (Score:3, Interesting)
Any advertiser that was considering heading back to Twitter it's not going to bother now. And Twitter's comment section has become a cesspool of the worst kind of alt-right nastiness and outright racism and homophobia now that all it takes to show up at the top of a comment section is pain eight bucks a month. I can honestly say it would be nervous about having my bran
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Lefties hate Musk -- over his insistence on free speech (!) -- but no one likes Zuckerberg. The speed at which engagement dropped from 100% to 50% indicates there is more dropping to be done.
Re:Even with a 50% drop (Score:5, Insightful)
If you think Musk cares about free speech, you're [theatlantic.com] delusional [cnbc.com]. As for why the left hates Musk, it has absolutely nothing to do with free speech.
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The article is wrong to say Musk wants free speech only for himself. He wants MORE than free speech for himself, and that is his shortcoming, but he wants free speech for the society he lives in.
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but he wants free speech for the society he lives in.
The evidence suggests otherwise. [gizmodo.com]
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Put it this way: there is no dispute that since Musk took over Twitter, the level of free speech on the platform has increased. The left confirms that, indirectly, by asserting that the level of speech they hate has increased.
(The "cis" slur ban, while stupid and unnecessary IMO, refers to repeat and targeted use towards a specific person, akin to calling someone a "fag", even though the latter is much more toxic given the history, so far, and I doubt such use would fall under protected speech by legal stan
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there is no dispute that since Musk took over Twitter, the level of free speech on the platform has increased.
False.
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Democrats on Twitter are less happy with it and Republicans are happier. Given that almost all traditional and social media are pro-Democrat, and that Twitter's leadership was not often just Democrat but "progressive", the fact that conservatives find it they are freer to express their views on the platform forces you to conclude -- if you were an alien watching what humans in America are doing -- that the amount of free speech online has increased (which is I admit not the same from free speech on Twitter
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Correct. Among other things, they hate him for putting a car in space instead of several tons of bricks, because that car could have fed Bernie's starving child for nearly 3 whole seconds.
Speaking of starving children, rsilvergun has been waiting over ten minutes for his happy meal, so put your phone away and get back to work.
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As for why the left hates Musk
The Left hates. The Right hates. How can anyone choose to be a part of hate? I get upset. I get angry. I explicitly do not hate anything other than hate itself.
Shame on you for participating in the madness.
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Lefties hate Musk -- over his insistence on free speech (!)
The guy who declared "cis" to be a bannable slur on his social media platform insists on free speech? Go on, sir, pull the other one.
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"Twitter owner Elon Musk has declared both ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ are slurs on the social media platform, warning people who engage in “repeated, targeted harassment” by using them face account suspensions."
It is a slur only if you repeatedly use it on someone, which would not fall under protected speech by government standards.
That said I think the decision is stupid and unnecessary. It is a stupid word, it means something only to a small group of people, and really means
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"walkable cities" the leftards wet dream about ending freedom of movement , assembly, and the ability to vote with ones feet.
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The automobile - freely controlled by its owner is about the most freeing thing since the idea of private property. The ability to go where you want when you want without some kind of per-resigstration or being checked against some list. Anyone who is anti
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Those sorts of policies aren't anti-car, they are anti-congestion. When people drive 3 blocks from home because walking or biking is dangerous, that just adds to the mess on the roads. I would love to walk or bike more but I literally have to pack up my bicycle and drive it somewhere over the road to get to a designated area to use it.
There's nothing freeing about being stuck in traffic and adding lanes to the highway has proven to only increase the number of cars on the road.
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LOL - as if they can't fund a reason to stop you as a pedestrian, won't ask you for ID when they do and would hesitate to take you in if they thought you were being uncooperative.
Yes there are problems with cars. License places should not be a thing - we should have never consented them as a society. There is no justifiable reason we need a unique identifier publicly displayed, we never had them on our horse carts. However that is hardly a reason to surrender the car, its a reason to fight against plate a
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The whole purpose of visible registration is a matter of liability in the event you cause a crash. This is part of the social contract for being on the roads in a vehicle that can hit pedestrians or other expensive cars. Having them publicly displayed is the only way to reasonably prove that everyone on the road is identifiable if a liability occurs. If it could be done while preserving privacy I'm sure it would have been done by now. I don't expect to see you offering an alternative that preserves the
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No, it's more analogous to a tax stamp. The other stuff was just built around that.
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The first vehicle registration program in the US was in 1901 and only cost $1 (a little under $36 today) and was intended to be one time for the life of the vehicle.
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> Elon Musk and the other billionaires are not your friend
Musk is not my friend, he's the enemy of my enemy. I don't care about his companies nor do I think he's particularly nice. I respect that he's free and I am grateful that he neutralized the left's largest weapon of mass censorship.
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I happen to work for SpaceX and I can unequivocally say that this isn't the case.
Who are you? If this was real Elon would be delighted to have you associate this comment with your identity. Of all the things that never happened, you never worked for SpaceX the most.
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I happen to work for SpaceX and I can unequivocally say that this isn't the case.
Who are you? If this was real Elon would be delighted to have you associate this comment with your identity. Of all the things that never happened, you never worked for SpaceX the most.
PLOT TWIST:
It's Elon. That's why he can unequivocally say what he said.
Elon absolutely is the right age and educational/demographic background to have found his way to Slashdot in the late 90s. Actually now that I think of it, given his personal and professional profile I'd be kinda surprised if he hadn't at least heard of this place. You couldn't sling a pot of hot grits in a room of tech-geek Natalie Portman fanbois back then without hitting a Slashdot reference.
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It wouldn't surprise me, nor would I be surprised that he would be a coward about it. In fact, nothing could possibly surprise me less.
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Ya, everyone made an account because it was easy and then realized you can't control you feed or search in any meaningful way.
Everyone that made an account did so because they were hoping a platform backed by a gazillionaire like Zuckerberg could be a drop-in replacement for the Old Twitter (and at the same time, they were desperately hoping that Zuckerberg-money meant that Mean 'Ole Musk Twitter would die immediately). When it was apparent that Threads is going to be just another Meta-platform for gathering data on you, cramming you into THEIR model, they gave up hope. Before Threads, the great Fuck Musk hope was Mastodon.
Now the
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Wouldn't smaller user-supported social media platforms result in a large amount of fragmentation? Back when "Usenet" was the main social communications tool, there was only one "Usenet". There were other forums, like AOL, Compuserve, GENIE, etc., so there was still fragmentation, but Usenet was freely available to everyone and was widely used.
With everyone jumping into the act and trying to create the next big thing, we've ended up with massive fragmentation (broadcast TV to streaming media is another ex
Worst issue - your Instagram endangered (Score:3, Interesting)
Everyone knows from the starting reports, that you can't delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account.
No big deal, you can just stop using right?
Well an aspect of that I did not expect but people are rapidly finding out, that if your post angers the VERY heavy handed Meta moderators, and your Threads account is locked - well that ALSO locks your Instagram account! And good luck finding anyone who can reverse that.
This is affecting people all over the political spectrum.
If you valued your Instagram account at all, I would never enable Threads because even a single post might get come loser complaining and shutting down your Instagram for good.
Given that almost all of the accounts on Threads come from people who already had and used Instagram, this is a massive issue that I don't think they can recover from even if they manage to fix this link. It has screwed over too many people now.
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this is a massive issue that I don't think they can recover from even if they manage to fix this link. It has screwed over too many people now.
You're the guy who insisted that Twitter is going to be profitable by November. Why would anyone care what you think?
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"This is affecting people all over the political spectrum."
But only people like you in negative ways. For everyone else, it's desirable.
" I would never enable Threads because even a single post might get come loser complaining and shutting down your Instagram for good."
If it's the nature of your posts to cause that, why would you value an account on a platform where that happens?
"...this is a massive issue that I don't think they can recover from..."
Nothing more valuable that deep SuperKendall insights.
"It
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So I guess that answers the question of whether Instagram is just a federated login or irrevocably tied to it. Would have been smarter to keep it separate and allow using federated sign in with other Meta accounts like Instagram or Facebook.
Not surprising they don't even have a desktop site (Score:3)
That explains the evil laughter at Twitter (Score:2)
There's a beta version that inflicts the sound of Elon Musk's musings on you. Today it was all "I deserve a cookie", and "Mwa-ha-ha".
Not too surprising ... (Score:2)
... I mean sure, I bet it felt good to say "hah, take that Elon!" and pretend to switch.
But it wasn't much fun after that, was it?
This post brought to you by Twitter and Bluesky (Score:2)
Obligatory (Score:2)
new soviet restaurant (Score:2)
I tried the new soviet restaurant. Food not so great. Will keep eating at the local diner.
You can smell the bias. (Score:2)
They try to write it like that's not happening but it is. They mentioned twitters decline in users, the gain in threads, the drop in threads, but don't discuss any increases in twitter usage.
That's clever peoples way of pushing the narrative. It's very low key but it is what it is. Watch for that in your daily life regardless of what you believe.
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Oh look, another SuperKendall post shitting on an Elon Musk competitor!
So it says in the Scriptures.
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Right, at least because there isn't one of those.
Elon Musk is the death of Twitter. Competition only affects the timing.
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Oh, do facts and reality not conform to your bullshit narrative? That's too bad. Cry harder.
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Reality tells a very different story.
Get better hero's.
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My claims are supported by evidence. [fortune.com].
Cry harder, troll [cbsnews.com] You're so full of shit. [cnbc.com]
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I like how you talk about the "non tech" masses being "drawn" as though you were not literally the canonical example of that. The naive fool being manipulated is you, first and foremost. Tell us again how people have natural immunity to COVID, SuperKendall!