Threads Hits 175 Million Users After a Year (theverge.com) 35
Ahead of its one-year anniversary, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Threads has reached more than 175 million monthly active users. The Verge reports: Back when it arrived in the App Store on July 5th, 2023, Musk was taking a wrecking ball to the service formerly called Twitter and goading Zuckerberg into a literal cage match that never happened. A year later, Threads is still growing at a steady clip -- albeit not as quickly as its huge launch -- while Musk hasn't shared comparable metrics for X since he took over.
As with any social network, and especially for Threads, monthly users only tell part of the growth story. It's telling that, unlike Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, Meta hasn't shared daily user numbers yet. That omission suggests Threads is still getting a lot of flyby traffic from people who have yet to become regular users. I've heard from Meta employees in recent months that much of the app's growth is still coming from it being promoted inside Instagram. Both apps share the same account system, which isn't expected to change.
As with any social network, and especially for Threads, monthly users only tell part of the growth story. It's telling that, unlike Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, Meta hasn't shared daily user numbers yet. That omission suggests Threads is still getting a lot of flyby traffic from people who have yet to become regular users. I've heard from Meta employees in recent months that much of the app's growth is still coming from it being promoted inside Instagram. Both apps share the same account system, which isn't expected to change.
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They still suspend and ban people for content that is not explicitly illegal; which is a shame. You should be able to post anything that isnt against the law without fear of being banned or suspended.
Why? Social media sites are literally places of discord. No one has perfectly solved the problem of moderation but it's pretty clear that the desire for a place where "anything legal goes" is a tiny niche, at best. While Twitter has gravitated closer to the standard you propose, it has only harmed them and fully embracing it would undoubtedly be ruinous.
There's a great episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the gang decides to make their bar all about freedom. At first it's a wild success—anything goes! But they quickly realize some rules are necessary to keep things legal. But then the creeps and weirdos learn about the no rules freedom thing and they all show up, freaking out all the other patrons until the bar is left with nothing but creeps and weirdos. Making matters worse, the creeps and weirdos don't even buy drinks to sustain the bar!
The gang realizes that rules are necessary not only for a bar to be successful, but for it to be an enjoyable place to be. A bouncer has to kick out the creeps and weirdos or they'll be the only ones left.
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There's a great episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the gang decides to make their bar all about freedom.
Been done before, even better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Also in Instagram too. I said, no thanks.
Forced Down Your Throat (Score:5, Insightful)
Like the Hawk Tua girl, Threads is forced down your throat, and still sucks.
The only reason it has that many users is the "bait and switch on Facebook and Instagram stories that you can only comment if you sign up for the other app
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We've seen this model before. [wikipedia.org]
It's working about as well as last time.
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He took too long to kiss the wall
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Maybe if you keep defending Musk publicly even when he's not being attacked he'll follow you back.
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Sounds like you might have an answer for me; why is he hated?
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I don't know about others, but I started by liking him a lot, then switched over time to disliking him a lot.
My reasons?
I distrust unstable people.
More so, rich unstable people.
I dislike raging arseholes.
More so, rich raging arseholes.
And not because they are rich, but because being rich allows them to have way too much power to say or do whatever and not be punished. They represent a grave danger to society, compared to the regular neighborhood unstable and/or raging arsehole people.
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"We can't even vote for anyone these foreigners don't approve of."
Sorry, but I am going to need some additional verification that AIPAC has actually removed candidates from the ballot...
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Here you go:
https://forward.com/news/62741... [forward.com]
https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
https://www.rollingstone.com/p... [rollingstone.com]
They got him removed at the primary, so now he won't appear on the ballot anymore for the general election. No one will be able to vote for him now in the general.
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So he was on the primary ballot, which he lost to another person from his same party as the other party received more votes -- i.e. people from his party "voted" on a ballot with a choice for him on that same ballot. So again, please inform me how this statement can possible be true: "We can't even vote for anyone these foreigners don't approve of."
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Literally no one complains about Musk building useful EVs.
Supports free speech better than any other social media platform?
Free speech for me and not for thee. It's quite telling that his idea of Free speech was buying a site, letting racists and nazis back on, while at the same time banning people who do something as simple and innocent as publishing open information such as Musk's flight movement, @Elonjet is still banned.
Do not worship false idols.
Why is he now the devil?
Because people judge him by his actions not by his religious follower count.
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Meanwhile, Musk has 188+ million followers alone.
Tell me; what did Musk do that was so bad as to alienate him from all these supposed nerds? What? Help build the most advance and useful EVs? Supports free speech better than any other social media platform?
Why is he now the devil?
Because he can’t be controlled and manipulated like Twitter was, and he’s “right wing” in that he supports a bit too much free speech simply because he allows criticism of certain ideologies that probably should be criticized and were not before.
People get their news from social media now. Government doesn’t like it when it can’t manipulate the news. Most assume wrongly that Good Morning Vietnam was a hilarious comedy and not a documentary on censorship.
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Here is the thing.
I am one of those who is hardly on Twitter and never bothered to unfollow Musk. I got the app, am probably logged into it, but I don't think I clicked on it for a few weeks at least. It's rare that I need to check twitter and can't get the info elsewhere.
Wonder how many accounts are "zombie accounts" like mine.
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People are slowly becoming aware that he is a narcist.
For once I'm rooting for facebook (Threads) (Score:2, Interesting)
Musk has made an absolute debacle of Twitter. I hope Threads eventually soundly trounces him.
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How so? I think it’s better than ever.
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The way Musk treated Twitter employees was nothing short of inhuman. "You're going to have to work long hours and long weeks, and be totally dedicated to this company, or else get out!" Put another way, "You need to be totally dedicated to enhancing my personal wealth, your own families and ambitions and lives don't matter." Three quarters of the employees were fired or left. If your own employees don't believe in you, why should customers or users?
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None of what you said, makes it OK to be inhuman with your employees. None of it makes it OK for Musk to demand sacrifices from his employees, so HE can profit. And you don't know what the salaries of these people were. Some made 6 figures, yes, but certainly not all.
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Musk can demand what he wants and those folks are free to find new jobs. It's his company now. People like Musk and Steve Jobs have(had) high expectations for their employees because they have visions and make the impossible happen. Ambitious people who want to change the world want to work for them. Lazy paycheck collectors find these types of people "harsh". Maybe they are, but that's why they change the world. If you don't like it, don't go work for them. Nothing "inhuman" about it.
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Of course they can go work somewhere else. Your contention was that Twitter is "better than ever." Being inhuman doesn't make it "better than ever" by any measure. Perhaps YOU should go work for a PE company where inhuman treatment of employees is the norm. You might like it there.
Oh yeah, and Musk never promised a big payday for these employees of which he demanded they sacrifice their families and their lives. Just a grueling job. That is all.
That is what I call greed. If you think greed is a good thing,
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https://x.com/masculinepath04/... [x.com]
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Hmmm...some macho guy who worships Musk and thinks greed is cool.
Here's another link for you: https://mashable.com/article/t... [mashable.com]
Advertisers are leaving, revenue is falling, the company is losing money. Quite the master class.
174.999M bots (Score:1)
Its Zuck, a few people he pays, and a shit ton of bots. No doubt.
Threads, another social media won't use (Score:2)
Virtue signal (Score:2)
"Users", yes. Meaning people having a tantrum about Musk, going to sign up with some competing Thread-a-don service, felling all warm and fuzzy inside, bragging about it (probably on X, lol), then going back to what they were doing before, mostly.