"I’m on Threads" meta thread

[immamac 42832]

3 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

How much does this feature cost 

No ads on threads yet either. It’s like web2.0 just came out again. Lol

[Blotto 23484]

I wonder if there is going be a court case and/or payoff over the name choice as it appears that there is a company already offering a communications product (slack alternative)  named threads.

 https://threads.com/

 

[Neonmoon 38129]

15 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

How much does this feature cost 

It’s free. Go to profile. Notifications 

[tx ind 7005]

1 hour ago, Helobious said:

Just more flash in the pan shit that won’t make it 3 months. Member when BeReal was the next biggest social media app? Died pretty quick too

Just cashed in my 401k and plowing it into Meta

[Celery Man 20929]

2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

It’s free. Go to profile. Notifications 

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27 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

zuck currently

Or

[Lurch 5922]

I wonder if there is going be a court case and/or payoff over the name choice as it appears that there is a company already offering a communications product (slack alternative)  named threads.
 https://threads.com/
 

I read somewhere Meta or Insta previously had an app called Threads that they killed. Probably still had naming rights secured from that project

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40 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

Does Elon find this “ interesting”….. “ yep”

35 minutes ago, NoName said:

Investigating

32 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Mark my words; within the next week Elon will do something to Twitter that is drastic or stupid or both drastic and stupid.

Threads might have 10 million users within a day.  And many of those people, once they have migrated completely away from Twitter, ain't ever going back.

The big thing is that Threads is picking up a whole shitload of the companies/organizations/individuals that were verified content creators on twitter.  Being Facebook, it was not hard for them to reach out to all of these people.

Elon might as well complete the process of making twitter into 4chan.

[Lurch 5922]

It’s free. Go to profile. Notifications 

To be clear, that controls what notifications you get, not what content appears on Home tab

[Francisco 2.0 32385]

Elon has spoken:

 

 

 

 

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Just now, Lurch said:

I read somewhere Meta or Insta previously had an app called Threads that they killed. Probably still had naming rights secured from that project

They did.

20  years ago, threads.net was an adult hosting site - $30 a month would get you 300MB of storage and 30GB bandwidth.  My how times have changed.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040129204846/http://threads.net/

[Js1 85257]

4 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Elon has spoken:

 

 

 

 

Oh the butthurt is so strong 

[NoName 16349]

What a failure. A flash in the pan. Lololol

[Celery Man 20929]

1 minute ago, NoName said:

What a failure. A flash in the pan. Lololol

obviously meta has a huge user base which is part of why this got... stood up so rapidly, but that still seems like an insanely large number given that I don't think they pushed it at all? I didn't open up facebook or instagram and get a notification and "Check out the new app Threads by Instagram!" - I saw the thread here, poked around in Instagram and didn't see anything, and then searched in the app store.

Did anyone else have a different experience? 5 million people seeking out the app and installing in 4 hours.

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8 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

obviously meta has a huge user base which is part of why this got... stood up so rapidly, but that still seems like an insanely large number given that I don't think they pushed it at all? I didn't open up facebook or instagram and get a notification and "Check out the new app Threads by Instagram!" - I saw the thread here, poked around in Instagram and didn't see anything, and then searched in the app store.

Did anyone else have a different experience? 5 million people seeking out the app and installing in 4 hours.

It's completely guerilla, and on purpose. They are proving that people want to leave Twitter. That was objective 1.

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9 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Did anyone else have a different experience? 5 million people seeking out the app and installing in 4 hours.

basically everyone logged onto twitter, saw their favorite follows post "I just joined Threads and I'm abandoning Twitter," and everyone left.

Jack Black already has almost 100k followers on Threads.

[Rimbo 25908]

1 minute ago, immamac said:

It's completely guerilla, and on purpose. They are proving that people want to leave Twitter. That was objective 1.

Finish the thought: Proving that people want to leave Twitter for a place that is just like the way Twitter was before Elon fucked everything up.

 

[Biff Tannen 45660]

So, what’d I miss?

[F250 28760]

2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So, what’d I miss?

Elon is still bad at humor. Cyborg Zuck dunked on Elon big time. Oh, and sloots will not be allowed to show their buttholes on Threads like they do on Twitter.

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17 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

Jack Black already has almost 100k followers on Threads.

He has 11 million followers on his Instagram, so he will probably be at a million followers on Threads soon.

Speaking of, a whole shitload of celebrity types are probably more than happy to dump twitter, since the integration between Threads and Instagram is tight and will be easy to slide between the two.

8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So, what’d I miss?

Elon went out for pizza and then came back home

[Helobious 9461]

32 minutes ago, NoName said:

What a failure. A flash in the pan. Lololol

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

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Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

This thing is gonna be HUUUGE

[Biff Tannen 45660]

1 minute ago, Helobious said:

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

So basically Threads is going to dominate and Twitter will be gone within days. Thanks

[Da Fino 2772]

34 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

obviously meta has a huge user base which is part of why this got... stood up so rapidly, but that still seems like an insanely large number given that I don't think they pushed it at all? I didn't open up facebook or instagram and get a notification and "Check out the new app Threads by Instagram!" - I saw the thread here, poked around in Instagram and didn't see anything, and then searched in the app store.

Did anyone else have a different experience? 5 million people seeking out the app and installing in 4 hours.

Same experience here. 

[Rimbo 25908]

12 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

I never believe anything is a good bet until I hear you say that it's a bad one.

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If the Korean boy bands like BTS make their move over to Threads and ditch twitter, there's tens of millions of serious/constant users right there.  Not that I know anything about K-pop because somebody in my house likes Korean dramas and music.

[WhatTheBuck 28771]

18 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

If every instinct you have is wrong then the opposite would have to be right.

You should do the opposite. 

[Telegraph_it 3357]

I never thought Twitter would help me end my Twitter habit but I won’t be replacing it with threads. 

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Just now, Telegraph_it said:

I never thought Twitter would help me end my Twitter habit but I won’t be replacing it with threads. 

At least not until signing day gets close.

[speed817 19244]

14 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

If the Korean boy bands like BTS make their move over to Threads and ditch twitter, there's tens of millions of serious/constant users right there.  Not that I know anything about K-pop because somebody in my house likes Korean dramas and music.

They are doing their military duties so not sure if they can get onto social media these days.  Need Jisoo and Blackpink to join Threads though.....

[totallynotabuttpirate 5395]

41 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

Yea, Instagram with its 2.3 billion users offering a twitter alternative where you keep your username and signup in 2 seconds is totally going to freefall and flame out. 

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9 minutes ago, speed817 said:

They are doing their military duties so not sure if they can get onto social media these days.  Need Jisoo and Blackpink to join Threads though.....

Pretty sure my wife could name the units they are serving in if I asked her.  She knows nothing else about the South Korean military.

[Post Oak 20204]

46 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

 

[mdmost 42997]

Nothing like a patented Surly Triple Down. 

[Rimbo 25908]

10 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

How many people just stayed at Hornfans or shaggy because it was ingrained?  Or AOL, yahoo, MySpace, etc.  Twitter is fucking toast as a mainstream social media platform, and it will only continue to exist as a place for dissidents who don’t like mainstream culture until Elon or his lenders decide it’s hemorrhaging too much money.

If Elon actually wants to make money on Twitter, he’s probably screwed it up so irreparably by now that his only realistic option left would be to embrace porn.  But doing that would harm the standing of Tesla and SpaceX, so he (probably) won’t.  Except he might because he’s a fucking Howard Hughes crazy weirdo, so who really knows.

The example you're looking for is the Digg -> Reddit migration.

Digg was THE link aggregation site. Then they fucked around, came out with a totally new version that everyone hated, and within a week everyone had jumped to Reddit. Digg died that very week, and Reddit became the new dominant player.

Reddit is fucking around now, but there's no good replacement yet.

Meta just gave everyone the reason they needed to ditch Twitter. It's all over but the shouting.

[Pato del Muerto 52484]

I was not on Twitter way before it was cool to not be on Twitter.  I’m glad for you all though. 

[Rimbo 25908]

1 hour ago, Telegraph_it said:

I never thought Twitter would help me end my Twitter habit but I won’t be replacing it with threads. 

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1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

How many people just stayed at Hornfans or shaggy because it was ingrained?  Or AOL, yahoo, MySpace, etc.

I was looking through some old computer magazines, and came across one that was comparing Delphi, AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, and I forgot what all else (and a couple of the services they discussed were dead and buried and they were discussing how they went under and what current ones might). There's always been mass migrations when it comes to computer technology, when something either cheaper/better comes out, or the old way of doing things became a pain for some reason.  At one point, Commodore 64s were the best-selling computers in the US - between '83 - '86, they had %30-40 of the US market share as an example.  Hell, for years, WinAmp really whipped the llama's ass.  Palm OS fans probably thought PalmPilot-based phones would become the norm.  Internet Explorer was a monopoly at one point.

I tossed out a comparison of Electronic Arts running the SimCity franchise completely into the ground with SimCity 2013, and in thinking about it, it's not a bad comparison - a whole shitload of publications, social media commentators, and SimCity fans were excited to see a "modern" SimCity just like some people were cautiously optimistic that Musk might do something to boost Twitter, but then the launch hit and people realized how bad EA fucked it up, and EA would not do what they needed to do to salvage things until it was way too late. Two years later, Cities: Skylines comes in, and here we are in 2023 and Cities: Skylines has sold 12 million copies, way more than double any of the SimCity titles, and more than all of the SimCity editions sold in the 90s combined.

I feel bad for Blue Sky.  I don't know if they were too cautious or simply didn't have the funding, but this was their one chance to make something big.

 

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1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

 Twitter is fucking toast as a mainstream social media platform, and it will only continue to exist as a place for dissidents who don’t like mainstream culture until Elon or his lenders decide it’s hemorrhaging too much money.

If Elon actually wants to make money on Twitter, he’s probably screwed it up so irreparably by now that his only realistic option left would be to embrace porn.  But doing that would harm the standing of Tesla and SpaceX, so he (probably) won’t.  Except he might because he’s a fucking Howard Hughes crazy weirdo, so who really knows.

He might as well just fold it into his X.com obsession. 

He can't salvage it at this point - he would have to A) admit he was wrong and B) reverse some changes that would upset catturd2

My only question is if he realizes how bad it is for him.

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6 hours ago, NoName said:

What a failure. A flash in the pan. Lololol

In 2011, Google+ had 10 million users two weeks after the launch.^[14] In a month, it had 25 million.^[15] In October 2011, the service had 40 million users, according to Larry Page.^[16] At the end of 2011, Google+ had 90 million users

 

[52-80 19139]

so basically the whole zuck vs elon cagefight thing was allegorical...

[Neonmoon 38129]

10 million signups in 7 hours 

[Underdog 28543]

7 hours ago, F250 said:

Elon is still bad at humor. Cyborg Zuck dunked on Elon big time. Oh, and sloots will not be allowed to show their buttholes on Threads like they do on Twitter.

Well I’m out! 

[Neonmoon 38129]

[Evil Bill Obrien 3254]

7 hours ago, Helobious said:

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

Selling everything that I possibly can and buying meta stock based on this, thanks

[BrickHorn 18214]

7 hours ago, Helobious said:

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

I saw Cultural Stable at Fitzgerald’s in 1985. Great show.

[Chuckie Finster 22692]

I’ve seen a lot of comments from the developers about a “Followers Only” feed coming soon, so I assume that wish will soon be fulfilled. I’m a bit nervous about getting it in chronological order though, since Instagram has fought this for some reason. But it’s essential if this app wants to be the go-to platform for live sports events, awards shows, etc.

[Celery Man 20929]

Google+ didn’t…. do anything that anyone was asking for, I recall it being weirdly unintuitive, and generally people didn’t have a reason to change from Facebook/Instagram/Twitter.

Like I said before I’m skeptical about big socials dying or losing all their members - we’re not in the early days any longer (prodigy/aol or MySpace) and Twitter isn’t quite a fringe social like Digg/Reddit. The place where the teens are is always going to move around but Facebook isn’t going to just be replaced by a similar thing and it would take a lot to make that happen to Twitter. But, there is a lot - from the odiousness of the ownership and his policies to the severe degradation of service. I’d still say it’s 50/50 that Twitter just withers but I’m enthusiastic about it. I’ve been off Twitter for a year or something and have dabbled in the other new replacements - this is the first one that feels like it will definitely do the thing that Twitter used to do where something big was happening and you could hop on the world’s group text.

[Celery Man 20929]

 

was curious about browser. I think it took ages for insta to go browser, although that makes a bit more sense than a Twitter replacement.

[NoName 16349]

8 hours ago, Helobious said:

Yeah, this does nothing to disprove my “flash in the pan” theory. The # of new sign-ups will go into freefall in a week or two simply due to mathematics. Once the novelty wears off it’s not going to attract new people. More importantly, it isnt attracting any young people. Let me know when a recruit posts his commitment on threads. Twitter is an ingrained cultural stable that isn’t going anywhere. 

its tied to instagram accounts, which has somewhere around a billion monthly active users and 500m daily active users. but sure. math. not enough users.

your original quote, which is still incredibly dumb, was:

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Just more flash in the pan shit that won’t make it 3 months. Member when BeReal was the next biggest social media app? Died pretty quick too

btw you do realize that Hayes Fawcett posts all his commitment edits on insta as well, right? you know how easy it is for him to share that to threads as well?