Gods forbid the man want to actually run twitter like a business, one. And two, those limits prevent bot from freely scraping data and used in AI/LLMs that will jus fuel more bots... People forget there are two sides to any coin. Don't have to agree with everything he says to acknowledge the good things.
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Meta's Twitter Alternative 'Threads' Now Available
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Gods forbid the man want to actually run twitter like a business, one. And two, those limits prevent bot from freely scraping data and used in AI/LLMs that will jus fuel more bots... People forget there are two sides to any coin. Don't have to agree with everything he says to acknowledge the good things.
No doubt. I saw this and noped.
OMG...finally another social media product I have no intention of using.
Do you realize how silly “tweet” sounded like before it became mainstream? And it wasn’t that long ago.
Seeing the Threads pick up on day one, the ease of use, overall satisfaction users are expressing, the big accounts that made Twitter the success it was already on Threads, with many of them winding down their Twitter accounts, Elon should be very worried that Zuck is currently incinerating 44 billion of his dollars.
Al Jazeera just reported that Threads just needs 10% of Instagram users to use it in order for it to be bigger than Twitter, in terms of user base anyway. Twitter is still where all the grown up celebrities go so Threads will probably never have that kind of cachet.
That’s why Threads will grow very quickly.
I was quite surprised to see that most of the organisations that I used to follow on Twitter were already posting on Threads only a couple of hours after it launched. I only ever used Twitter to follow credible news sources and organisations that I was interested in, not for social media purposes.
I’m not a fan of Meta or Twitter, but barring any major mistakes, Threads will probably become significantly larger than Twitter very quickly.
Meta not launching this in the EU because they are not allowed to use your data as freely as in the rest of the world should tell you all you need to know about the purpose of this app. It’ll never be a success without being in the EU either. They’re cutting off 477 million people just because they can’t suck in all their data. What more do you need to know?
I remember the same being said about “tweeting”
They are planning to launch in the EU, but they’re not ready yet. The Threads launch seems to have been brought forward to take advantage of the chaos at Twitter, and given the complexity of EU requirements (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing), I suspect it will take them quite a while before they can launch there, but they will eventually.
Why is my feed filled with posts from people/entitites I don't follow? How do I get rid of them? Is this what using the official Twitter client was like?
This is an excellent opportunity to unplug from social media, even if temporarily.
No iPad app? Mmmm … 🤔
Then no matter what they’re telling you, they definitely want your mobile phone number.
Didn't say that, did I? Said I'm not interested in being on a platform that seems to draw them and whose CEO encourages it.
You forgot the "What about" part at the beginning of that.
Regardless, I was able to go on Twitter prior to the 5D Chess-playing Boy Genius and not see any of that, but every time I go on nowadays, it's loaded with right-wing, racist garbage and white supremacist noise everywhere. I've tried blocking and it doesn't seem that the algorithm does the job anymore. I get loads and loads of it. He's allowed Twitter to become the intellectual equivalent of a sewer. Quite the achievement.
I think this must be what they mean by “bringing the receipts.”
Same. I thought that was the only value in Twitter and diluting the verified checkmark concept pretty much yanked the rug out from under that. I don't go to Twitter nearly as much anymore. It's like some kind of frat party now, just a lot of obnoxious behavior and loud people. There's a huge need for a Twitter-like app that has a non-broken verification system, so you know the celeb/news outlet/politician whose post you're reading is the real deal.
… parroted straight from Musk’s tweet.