If no one is going to use Threads for 2024, then wouldn't Threads be dead by the end of this year instead of within a year or a year and a half? 1 to 1.5 years out puts us in mid- to late-2024
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Not boring so much as annoying. I really dislike seeing all these posts from people I couldn't care less about. Until there's a feed that ONLY displays the people I follow, this thing's nothing I'm interested in.
So my take on this is, even though Zuckerberg is definitely the only executive people attach to Facebook, when you go to the site it you wouldn't know it. He runs the show, but he isn't the show. When Musk took over Twitter, he was Twitter. He gamed the algorithm so that he showed up in your feed constantly (from what I read he even force unblocked himself from feeds.) He changed the logo for some time based on one of his inside jokes. He makes sure that he is Twitter.
You can hate Zuckerberg but still forget about him when you use Facebook/Threads/Instagram/WhatsApp. Musk won't let that happen with Twitter.
That's a deal breaker for me, not even installing it... I need the option to see only people i follow and in chronological order.... Otherwise I'm not bothering.
Critical thinking at its worst.
With Threads you are forced to view tons of people that you aren't following. If you try to brute force go where there are like minded people (let's say Art based threads) then there isn't any hashtags to do that either. So.... lol
To post on instagram you need to upload some type of media.... an image or video, etc....
To post on threads you only need to write words like twitter....media is optional.
People already haven’t used twitter in years. Why would anyone use this?
It's basically twitter but using instagram handles so FB doesn't have to build up a new user base.
I like it a lot more than the bird app. I was a heavy user of/visitor to the bird for 11+ years until I got Threads. I opened the bird app under 10 times last week (way less than I would per day previously). As always: YMMV.
Until they allow us to do lists where you can just view posts from specific people, this will never become important to me. I see no reason to look through tons and tons of random posts. I was my "local news" list, "local artists", etc.
Unfortunately, 99% of the content from people you follow is just a cross-post from Instagram. The only people posting "thoughts" are celebs and use it like twitter. Everyone else just uses it like Instagram so it is redundant.
The Twitter you knew might be. But the Twitter it’s evolving into, will be just fine. Hate it or love it, it’s not going anywhere.
Let’s meet here next year and see who’s crystal ball needs batteries. 🫠
I think you're wrong about that. Twitter is cash-flow negative. It's bleeding out. The only chance it has of surviving is Musk continuing to dump money into it. I doubt that will happen. Meta can keep Threads going as long as Zuck likes.
deleted it after one day, twitter is the way forward
I'll say, I updated the app almost as soon as this article came out, and it's still showing the old UI for me... guess I'll whine about it on Twitter until it updates.
You realize that they can iterate, right?
I hope threads gets better and that people use it. I personally won't, but I revel in Elon Musk losing. Twitter is an alt-right dumpster fire that bigots, nazis and Russians call home. It deserves to die.
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Your experience is not the same as everyone else.
I don't follow celebs, influencers etc. So 99% of the content from people I follow is NOT a cross-post from Instagram.
It's similar experience to Twitter only without the trolls, idiots, grifters, crypto-bros etc.
And still no tab to only see posts from people you follow. This is the fundamental opposition I have to social media. They only want you to see what they want you to see.
Unless I'm missing something I'm reading this as several new ways to interact with people who follow you, but still very little control over what you see regardless of who you do follow.
Unless I'm missing something I'm reading this as several new ways to interact with people who follow you, but still very little control over what you see regardless of who you do follow.
It's right in line with Zuck's lack of vision and inability to renew his business by other means than acquiring others' ideas.
You mean good artists copy, great artists steal?
Gotta admit it was a good time to swoop in with a product like this. I say this as someone opposed to everything he apparently stands for. But the timing was good.
The follows tab isn’t to see who you’re following in Threads. It shows who’s followed you recently. That’s why it’s part of the Activity feed.
It's totally boring - what it serves up to me is meh - but other people I know are having great experiences with content feeds. I think as they add features it might get better - Twitter was pretty ick when it launched and limited too.
This was a rush to market job to take advantage of Twitter's weakness - it really needed another 6 months or more in the oven. Like DM's are still six months or more away