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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,239 posts)

14. thanks. I was reporting what I heard on radio news today

Reply to Celerity (Reply #13)

Fri Jul 7, 2023, 03:50 AM

Jul 2023

Celerity

(54,407 posts)

16. time to find a new radio news station, lol

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Reply #14)

Fri Jul 7, 2023, 04:15 AM

Jul 2023

Johnny2X2X

(24,207 posts)

4. Elmo

Reply to moonshinegnomie (Original post)

Thu Jul 6, 2023, 08:44 PM

Jul 2023

Elon is about to throw a fit about free speech and monopolies. But don’t mistake his self righteousness for the fact that all he is really upset about is that he’s just lost his platform to troll the libs with. Elmo couldn’t care less about fee speech unless it’s his own. He’s a fascist and wants a terrible system for our country.

All that being said, Zuckerberg is not much better and he’s going to have a monopoly. FB, Instagram, WhatsApp, and now Threads, suck controls social media globally.

moonshinegnomie

(4,021 posts)

5. hes going to sue claiming threads is hiring ex twitter people

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 6, 2023, 08:58 PM

Jul 2023

well of course they are. musk fired them.....

Johnny2X2X

(24,207 posts)

7. Meta already replied

Reply to moonshinegnomie (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 6, 2023, 09:11 PM

Jul 2023

Their Threads engineering team employs 0 ex Twitter engineers.

But I think they can sue for IP infringement. Threads is exactly like Twitter. Actually it’s the same, but a little more user friendly. And by this weekend it will have several times the content. Insane power play.

Zuckerberg just squares Elmo like a bug. Only the courts can save Twitter and even that would be very temporary. Twitter is DED Dead.

Mosby

(19,491 posts)

10. Some major capabilities are missing

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #7)

Fri Jul 7, 2023, 12:25 AM

Jul 2023

But unlike Twitter, Threads does not have capabilities that many social media users are used to, such as the ability to send direct messages, to search for content or use hashtags to capitalize on viral trends. Meta executives over the past day have hinted that such changes may be on the way. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said on the app that the company plans to include a search function and flesh out a website version of Threads.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/06/threads-instagram-app-zuckerberg-twitter/

Emrys

(9,100 posts)

19. You've expressed enthusiasm for Threads and predicted Twitter's demise over many recent DU posts

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #7)

Fri Jul 7, 2023, 08:45 AM

Jul 2023

I think you're being premature.

Threads has indeed had a large influx of sign-ups, no doubt mainly from Instagram users. To give that a little bit of context, I read yesterday that the account with the most follows on Threads is Selena Gomez.

Now, she's undoubtedly a prominent public figure, and all power to her, but not relevant to why many people use social media, and Twitter in particular. I suspect various other fanbases have also signed up en masse.

What hasn't happened yet, and certainly won't while many of Threads' capabilities remain vapourware, is a wholesale migration of the various communities that have built up on Twitter over many years, and not least during the current conflict in Ukraine. I've seen quite a number of Twitter users reporting they've signed up to Threads, but currently they see that as insurance in case Twitter suddenly goes *poof*. In fact, I've seen a fair bit of buyers' regret from some who kneejerk signed up to Threads and now already regret it for various reasons. There's inevitably going to be a high degree of churn and quite a lot of Threads accounts that will remain dormant.

Add to that the fact that Threads has not been rolled out in EU countries, and won't be while the EU has qualms about Threads' use, processing and marketing of users' personal data. That's a large and fairly influential chunk of the world's population that can't and won't participate at the moment.

My own prediction? Twitter will rumble on and survive. Musk will bask in misery and no doubt provide some entertainment as he thrashes about trying to address the situation, and many will enjoy seeing him receive repeated kicks up the ass.

Meanwhile, Twitter life will go on much as normal for most Twitter users, with a few marginal inconveniences and annoyances.

BumRushDaShow

(169,752 posts)

17. Here's the kicker

Reply to moonshinegnomie (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 7, 2023, 05:33 AM

Jul 2023

"Threads" has nothing to do with Twitter as it was a project that came out of Facebook/Instagram, etc., and ties into that "ecosystem" of apps. But "BlueSky" was created by the same guy who created Twitter (Jack Dorsey) and that may be where some Twitter people went. BlueSky hasn't officially (publicly) launched yet (still in beta testing).

So Musk was just doing his "Veruca Salt" temper-tantrum.