Threads Starts Testing Trending Topics Section (theverge.com) 5
In a post on Threads today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Twitter rival is rolling out a new test in the U.S. that shows a list of popular topics that other people are discussing. It's a core feature of Twitter (now "X") that should help make it easier to find new posts and users on Threads. The Verge reports: The list will appear on the search page and in the For You feed, allowing you to browse through posts about a particular topic. In addition to testing a way to save posts, Meta recently said it will add controls to limit political content recommendations on Threads. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says Threads uses machine learning AI systems to determine what goes on the list. It takes into account how many people are talking about a certain topic, as well as how many people have interacted with posts about it.
Oh boy, starting the enshitification already... (Score:5, Interesting)
Here we go. First is trending topics the user didn't ask to know, then topics promoted by a business, then the ratio will start to skew towards the latter more and more until it becomes an advertising feed.
Trending topic summary: (Score:1, Informative)
Trending topic summary:
-Climate change
-Inclusivity
-Dangers of the far right like Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk
-World Economic Forum guidance
-Save democracy by voting democrat
-List of crimes committed by D.J. Trump
-Terrorist Nazi Canadian Truckers
-Fossil Fuel kills 22 millions people every year
-Planet temperature will rise by 10C in the next 3 years
-Oceans will rise by 1 feet next year
-Eating meat is bad for you
-The importance of finding and choosing your own specific genders
-Rise of right wing extremist in S
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Here we go. First is trending topics the user didn't ask to know, then topics promoted by a business, then the ratio will start to skew towards the latter more and more until it becomes an advertising feed.
It's social media. It doesn't suffer enshitification. It was designed to be shit from the onset.
Matter support? (Score:2)
I can't keep track of the names these days. Thread is for smart homes, and Threads is for social media companies who forget to check if the name is already used in technology before naming their new service.
This is like when Microsoft decided to rename their Surface to PixelSense and then start selling a laptop called Surface.