Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is off to a rocket start. Mark Zuckerberg announced 30 million activated profiles, while internal data shows over 95 million posts and 190 million likes in less than one day,
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Everyone move to Threads
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Elon is forced to sell Twitter for $50k
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Everyone leave Threads and go back to Twitter
Euro here, still no sign of any threads
With their privacy policies they probably can’t launch in Europe without getting fined into oblivion.
People are annoyed at the changes and decrease in content quality. It makes Instagram in a healthy market to destroy Twitter.
Pretending Twitter is a bastion of free speech is laughable. Twitter is full of censorship. And it’s the kind that appeals only to a certain demographic.
i don’t think the comment was implying that it was a bastion of free speech, but when you compare twitter and meta platforms, twitter definitely has the edge in a lot of communities, especially sex-positive ones
As much as I dislike all the recent twitter changes, this gives Meta even more of a monopoly on social media networks
More than half of my personal follows on Twitter are enthusiastically jumping over. I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter these days, so maybe I hadn’t realized it was bad enough to send people running happily into the arms of Meta.
It’s not sign ups “activated profiles”. It’s people using their same insta account to use Threads.
That is literally how you sign up to use Threads, so I’m not sure this is a meaningful distinction.
The low barrier to entry was a very clever idea on their part.
It’s very much a distinction. It’s deceitful to claim there’s “millions of users who signed up/activated” It’s implying or coyly trying to say these are new accounts, especially to people who are on the outside and don’t know. Better to just say, “Millions went back to Instagram to activate their Threads account.”
