Instagram Head Says Threads API Is In the Works (techcrunch.com) 15
Ivan Mehta reports via TechCrunch: Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works. This will give developers a chance to create different apps and experiences around Threads. Mosseri was responding to journalist Casey Newton, who was conversing with a user about a TweetDeck-like experience for Threads. The Instagram head expressed apprehension about publishers posting a bunch of content and in turn, overshadowing creator content.
"We're working on it. My concern is that it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content, but it still seems like something we need to get done," Mosseri said in a post. Later, an engineer working on Threads said that the team would start with endpoints for publishing content for the API. [...]
While Mosseri is concerned about publishers pushing an overwhelming amount of content through API integration, creators also need different tools to post various types of content. It also makes it easier for developers to design features suited for a specific platform if there is the option for an API integration.
"We're working on it. My concern is that it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content, but it still seems like something we need to get done," Mosseri said in a post. Later, an engineer working on Threads said that the team would start with endpoints for publishing content for the API. [...]
While Mosseri is concerned about publishers pushing an overwhelming amount of content through API integration, creators also need different tools to post various types of content. It also makes it easier for developers to design features suited for a specific platform if there is the option for an API integration.
zero cares (Score:3)
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Yep, zero cares given about that platform. Slashdot4Lyfe.
I don't care about Twitter/X either. I don't have an account, I don't read it, I don't go there. That doesn't mean I'm completely unaffected by it because *other people* are not dismissive of it, are impacted by it, and until I finally move off the grid and become a hobbit I still need to engage with and talk to other people.
Being dismissive of something that could impact your life is not a good approach.
It's like a colleague of mine who said "I don't give a fuck if Russia invades the Ukraine" and then lite
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Twitter CANNOT impact my life, unless i let it.
It is literally impacting your life right now, since you are engaging in this discussion. Heck half of Slashdot stories have links to something that came from a Twitter post promoted and controlled by their algorithm.
Saying Twitter cannot impact your life, here, in this forum, is profoundly ignorant.
Bridge to nowhere (Score:2)
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I like to believe that fantasy, but 100million people is not "no one". You'd be wise not to ignore an oncoming train simply because it looks rather small in the distance.
Instagram might steal X users, but turnabout... (Score:2)
cage match (Score:2)
I'll bet a good streaming cage match would do wonders for Threads.
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Lots of people would certainly tune in to watch the younger billionaire kick the ass of the older billionaire.
Maybe, if we're lucky, right at the end of the match someone would drop a freight train on the ring.
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There was supposed to be one in Las Vegas between the two, but the older billionaire's mother wouldn't let him fight [businessinsider.com].
Then again, the old guy says a lot of bullshit, so it shouldn't have been a surprise he never followed through with anything.
Instagram? (Score:2)
Interesting that Threads is now under Instagram and not being billed as a first-class Meta product.
Quite a buried lede though noone here is surprised.
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it was always under Instagram, thats how they got the 100 million users in the first place