Will Threads Kill Twitter? 

that's already confirmed to be on the roadmap

Seriously same

Without algorithm and promotion and ads, these platforms don't work. Even RU-vid has a subscriptions tab, yet people stick with recommendations. Their algorithm's purpose is to make recommended indistinguishable with who you follow.

When the world stopped getting a chronological FB feed... Im convinced that that was the highest point of enjoyable, somewhat not totally unhealthy social media. That's the point in which all of these things around us started crumbling.

Welcome to the world of social media where they are trying to keep you on the app for as long as they can. If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product

Ohhh damn this is bad

lol....

Perfect analogy 🤣

Exactly! The way people have moved to acceptance of all their privacy being eradicated and sold on social media is outstanding.

I would rather have ads than pay for a service. twitter is becoming more and more unusable unless you pay. And the gdpr ban in EU is actually less about selling your data and more about how threads shares your information from instagram.

The answer is yes

I mean personally I run it in a sandboxed environment and give out as little information as possible, but I recognise that I'm in the minority

Does it though the illusion of privacy is over and I mean like it or not nothing you do online is private hell nowhere you go with your phone is private and it's been that way for decades now we don't have privacy we lost it for security and prosecution a long time ago at the turn of the century it just got worse and it's not coming back only false promises and privacy gimmicks that's our reality And to some extent I think a lot of us just don't care anymore nothing I do is illegal and while ik they can maybe find out I'm a minority or got said illness and maybe they tell the gov and cut funding in my area at the end of the day these are kinda stretches and people are going to do malicious things weather or not we keep our business private it's up to our lawmakers and voters to punish bad actors but our privacy it's gone for good

same here

Agreed. I just deleted my FB and IG.

Same loooool I’m not even interested in creating an account, social media is a mess.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 people are sick of how Zuckerberg has changed social media with the algorithm, yet they are willing to download another app run by him 🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s just funny how he is trying to convince us that *Threads* won’t be like any other app… yeah, FOR NOW!! it will become another time waster with ads and threads we never asked for because all they want to do is to keep you on the app for as long as they can. *if you don’t pay for the product, you are the product*

This

Doubt it- and only because people use Facebook for groups heavy. That point about threads having ‘people’ over other twitter alternatives is why I think Facebook is holding on by a…thread. It’s has a solid group presence

It doesn't even compete with fb

@zachbeall6810 well FB is fading away isn't it? So Meta knows it's going google plus way so instead of trying to revive it they built this which is bringing both twitter and Insta worlds together. That's just my thoughts I could be totally wrong.

@BrandonMoye all I see on fb these days is spam, reason why people aren't using it anymore as frequently. I don't like going there as I see more random spam posts than updates from my friends.

I've been thinking about where Threads fits into my whole digital diet and the answer I came to was shockingly similar to yours. If it's for pictures of 24 hour only stories, I have Instagram. If it's for following niche creators or having a space away from friends and family, it's Bluesky (and formerly Reddit). Threads I find fills that niche of where I just express myself in text form with the intention of it to be seen by both friends and family - exactly what I used to use Facebook for years ago.

And yet no one wants to talk about Elon’s blanket censorship blocking all news about competitors like Threads and BlueSky, and shoving his own tweets.

@@chhoyla I haven't seen this, I found out about Threads and got a beta invite on Twitter for it. I continue to get most of my information about Thread updates on Twitter. It could be true for other people, I can only speak for my experience.

i mean, every app launch always launch their MVP. they'll create a website eventually

@@echtogammut He can’t quell it all, but he doesn’t let it hit trending

@@blurey8569 That's very true, I always soft launch stuff on IOS first because it will have the fewest compatibility bugs. It's still annoying for my user flow, which I know isn't the norm anymore. I'm old so I'll take a 45" screen with a real keyboard over 6.5 and predictive text. :) If it had better integration with Instagram, I'd probably end up using it more, because that is the only social mobile app I consistently use. I feel like they left a lot on the table in regards to Instagram, but it's still early so time will tell.

Now you've got me missing G+ 🫠

Exactly. Lots of accounts because it's easy to link from Instagram but how many are active, how many realise you can't just delete it later.

​@@SeanFranchisesame lol

Google + forced people to make an account. At least with Threads, it's optional.

​@@TheShapeshifter I don't think you were forced. It automatically existed because you had a Google account. Same with threads. If you're already on Instagram the "handle" already exists.

Hilarious that you say that for threads and not Twitter when that is literally what Twitter is for most people

Exactly.. threads will be the snowflakes safe space 🤣

@@tenshukaku2830 Twitter has free speech so you aren't censored. I get plenty of left and right leaning people AND believe it or not... it isn't actually a hate storm which is surprising for Twitter. Twitter is in a much healthier spot and I have some hope restored for humanity lol. This is just my experience and maybe I am just lucky.

Weve been in that age for years now

Threads is decentralized and built on the mastodon protocol, so you can take your following anywhere. So it's not locked in as it was once was.

Anyone who isn't worried about that is either stupid or just not paying attention.

Where have you been

This just seems to be your perception. Services like Twitter are not to be seen as trustworthy sources for info and news. Trustworthy sources need to publish through their own channels to stay exactly that.

Meta is a super scummy company in this regard. I like Facebook and instagram at a base level but I refuse to use them because I don’t want to be the product for Facebook. I know all companies do this but Meta is far worse

I don’t think he meant tech-based as in the content. He is referring to the infrastructure prowess of twitter when it comes to the efficiency of the platform and its ability to be enhanced with new features quickly.

I heard text based , not tech based

@@muralibalaraman Yeah, he said text based..

He said ‘TEXT based’

thanks

4000 with Twitter Blue. You're mostly reading Tweets not writing them. But if you do then Twitter blue is totally worth it since you get paid now.

Makes me even more interesting Into NOT using threads. SM are mostly full of talkative toxic people.

Crazy how they can “rush” a release and everyone just blindly jump in. EU regulation is there for a reason.

@@kevinweyrauch4875 that tells you everything you need to know about this shady company. If meta were Chinese owned, they'd be banned everywhere.

@@jcloiseaua lot of american companies already behave exactly like chinese companies, there is not really a big difference by now and I’m glad the EU is thinking twice about these things

The hate is real for elon I don’t get it lol

@@Smi77y1he provides solutions, his haters need a permanent crisis to justify taking away your rights

@@Smi77y1 Because he embraces hate speech and allows it to thrive on his platform that's why. You asked! I gave you the reason. I don't care either way. I'm just glad there is a Twitter alternative. I wish there was one for youtube.

@@southwestkinema9149hate speech is included In free speech my friend. No one likes to be hated on but censorship isn’t a better option

⁠@@braukwood925 so what’s your solution to hate speech?

No

Yep. Not on either of them or Facebook

it also cannot go down, i dont know where he got that, there are a lot of instances, even if some instances happened to go down the whole network cant, it works like the web and email does, its decentralised and federated

yeah I didn't wanna be That Guy and rebuke his "mastodon goes down" claim, but for what its worth he also claimed threads has DMs when it definitely does not have DMs yet

@@lexd0g he probably meant the main most popular instance

Yes, would be a good discussion

yea but it looks like Threads is going to die as 70% of users have dropped in usage, since launch.

yes it will die in 2 hours say goodbye

@@fabio.santos yes in Kosova , app is called - threads, an Instagram app in Play store is released by Instagram 🤔

Threads main problem is it steals everything in your life.. even more than the other social netowrks

lol racist close second

I've already seen soft core shit on Threads. (Not from who I'm following) If humans are on it, it's going to eventually be sexual.

That's not the only reason. It's because the right-wing already hate Threads. Twitter will become like Rumble soon enough. Everyone will say they're there for free speech when they what they really mean is "we want to own the libs". Tribalism lol

honestly despite elons ridiculous policies and how people are saying twitter "protects free speech", it is still one of the most lenient social platforms out of the main 4

@@the.abhiram.rPeople can think about Twitter what they want. But people who cried about Facebook when they allegedly stole the election and now shear on Threads are such pathetic hypocrites… Many democrats hate Elon so much they would rather have corporate Zuckerberg own every single platform in the world. (Not far off now)

I think by "Mastodon Protocol" you mean the ActivityPub protocol. This protocol isn't used exclusively by Mastodon, a lot of other social media uses it too, and the protocol itself actually existed way before Mastodon. It's true that Threads plans to add interoperability with other social media through ActivityPub, but the protocol actually doesn't have anything to do with data collection. The data isn't more safe because of this

I have more faith in TikTok than Zuckerberg

because jack want to build decentralized version of twitter

It ain't that deep.

@@supersaiyansoldier1977 it's a reoccurring theme

There is a reason why you know only one of there names

Just because he doesn't say it out loud doesn't mean it doesn't influence his opinion

the trouble is.. now they own you..

Threads is ‘not twitter. both are pointless

@@onemorechris Yes, I know it’s not twitter. The focus is on threads, hence my comment about threads. But I agree, both are equally unnecessary. They are like solutions to problems that most people don’t have.