Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentralization, Control Over Data in a Fediverse Jak Connor / TweakTown : Head of Instagram reveals what's coming to Threads Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Zuckerberg uses Threads to say Twitter has missed its chance Vicki Newman / Guinness World Records : MrBeast is first person to reach 1m followers on Threads - hours after app launch Jim Waterson / The Guardian : Threads review: Twitter without the rough edges or news NBC 7 San Diego : 5 Things to Know Before the Stock Market Opens Friday Qadir AK / Coinpedia Fintech News : Twitter vs Meta: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey Criticize Zuckerberg's Threads Rami Tabari / Laptop Mag : How to join Threads - Instagram's rival to Twitter Britta O'Boyle / Pocket-lint : There's a key Threads feature iPhone users are missing out on Emveep / Coinmonks : Is Threads a Meta Maneuver to Twitter? Marcus Gopolang Moloko / Memeburn : Can I use Instagram Threads on Desktop? Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Threads is getting a following feed, but not for a while Jam Kotenko / SlashGear : Can You Access Threads On A Computer? Tessa Kaur / TheGamer : Threads, Meta's Replacement For Twitter, Sucks By The Way Sounak Mukhopadhyay / Livemint : Jack Dorsey calls Threads ‘Twitter clone’ as Instagram's new app takes social media by storm Aditya Soni / Reuters : Meta's Threads is a true threat to Musk-owned Twitter, analysts say Giulia Carbonaro / BizTech News : Why has Threads, Meta's answer to Twitter, not launched in the EU? Business Post : Twitter threatens legal action over Meta's rival app Threads Wyatte Grantham-Philips / Associated Press : What is Threads? What to know about Twitter's rival Jessica E. Lessin / The Information : Why Threads Is Bad for the News Business Casey Newton / The Verge : Hands-on with Threads: fairly bare-bones text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram, no hashtags, no edit button, search is only for user handles, and more Andrew Hutchinson / Marketing Dive : Meta launches Threads, provides insights into coming elements Mike Isaac / New York Times : Threads, Instagram's ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived TechCrunch : Threads, Meta's Twitter competitor, is now live Chennai Print : Instagram Head Acknowledges User Requests for ‘Following’ Feed in Threads App and Promises Future Features Wall Street Journal : Threads vs. Twitter: What's the Difference? Sami Fathi / Supercharged : Head of Instagram says placing ads within Threads is “not a priority right now” Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Threads feed of people you follow ‘on the list’; can't delete your profile; more John Gruber / Daring Fireball : ★ Threads — Facebook's much-anticipated Twitter rival Threads — branded “an Instagram app” — is out. Alex Heath / The Verge : Q&A with Adam Mosseri on how Threads started, why a new app is a “risky endeavor”, creating a standalone app off of Instagram, ActivityPub, Elon Musk, and more Twitter: Mark Zuckerberg / @finkd : [Image: Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man] Linda Yaccarino / @lindayacc : On Twitter, everyone's voice matters. Whether you're here to watch history unfold, discover REAL-TIME information all over the world, share your opinions, or learn about others — on Twitter YOU can be real. YOU built the Twitter community. 🙏👏 And that's irreplaceable. This... https://twitter.com/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @TechEmails It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Must confess to a deep love of fashion & architectureNikita Bier / @nikitabier : Facebook had a lot of slackers when I was there, but when something started working, the best people in the company immediately transferred to that team and worked their asses off. That's happening now. Nika Melkozerova / @nikamelkozerova : you can be you if you pay 8 dollars. so many bots have become real, while the rest of us refusing to pay for a platform where we create content, got deboosted or stripped of our earned credentials. But, we are indeed still there, trying to be us. https://twitter.com/... @cb_doge : Meta's new app was built entirely using this keyboard: [Image: small three key keyboard: Ctrl - C - V] Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : 🎉 Threads 🎉 Threads is our new app, built by the Instagram team, for text updates and joining public conversations ✨ We're hoping Threads can be great space for public conversations, and we're very focused on the creator communities that already enjoy Instagram. Available... https://twitter.com/... [video] Aaron Levie / @levie : Threads is exciting because it's just your classic underdog story Tim Pool / @timcast : the goal of Threads is to stop you from being able to have your own follower list Big tech wants to create a singular narrative and its not possible using the old model of “choose who to follow” This is why Insta and Threads forces you to see posts from people you dont know @junlper : i don't have any interest in using threads at all but it is really funny watching the people at twitter panic now that there's clearly an open market for a website where people post their little sentences https://twitter.com/... @emoswaggy : oh nevermind ["But there's no way to make Threads show you only the posts from accounts you've chosen to follow"] @aries_menace : logging into threads to get my class action privacy settlement in 5-10 years @letterboxd : [image] Nikita Bier / @nikitabier : “𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 won't work because it doesn't allow you to import your Twitter followers” Let me invert that statement for you: How many of your non-Twitterfriends would become activated on Twitter if they could import their 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 social graph? Renee DiResta / @noupside : 🧵 A Brief Thread On Threads 🧵 : Normie users came to Twitter for Oprah, not some shitposting rando. Before emoji-in-bio factions became the norm & brainworms spread & this place became The Arena to scapegoat some hapless Main Character every day, ppl wanted to talk to celebs. @techemails : Elon Musk on Instagram August 21, 2018 [image] Dan Primack / @danprimack : It's really a testament to @ev, @jack and @biz that so many companies, large and small, keep copying their fundamental design. Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : Talk to your doctor if you think you may have Facebook Derangement Syndrome https://twitter.com/...Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : Personal News — I've joined @Meta to work on Threads, an app built by @instagram! Can't wait to craft the unreleased and shape the digital future together! Thomas Violence / @thomas_violence : check me out on threads. heres a picture of my threads account C:/Users/Ben/Downloads/nudemanwithextre melyfuckedupballsvomitingontotheamerican flag- 1200px.webp Balaji / @balajis : IS THREADS A THREAT? Facebook's clones of Snapchat and TikTok have been fairly successful, but haven't killed either Snapchat or TikTok. I think that's the base case. An alternative scenario is Google Plus, which came out strong but didn't have staying power. But Facebook has... https://twitter.com/... Mike Solana / @micsolana : the substack nuke never made much sense to me, nor did media obsession with the other fake twitters. but meta is a proven clone assassin, at scale, run by the industry's longest running social media exec. this is the first real challenge to twitter in the company's history. James Titcomb / @jamestitcomb : Concerning [image] Sam Coates Sky / @samcoatessky : Gosh. Yuk. Hmmmm. Really, Threads? [image] Osaretin Victor Asemota / @asemota : Those saying Threads is a fluke have forgotten that Facebook Paper was once a product experiment that failed. Meta has the benefit of experiencing failure before. They won't make the same mistake twice. They took their time with this and it is evident in the design. Not kneejerk [image] @samro : the nice thing about Twitter's user experience getting super crappy in recent days is it's lowered the mental bar for embracing new competitive social media platforms that are working out their own kinks @amnesty : The normalisation of people having to trade human rights to have access to information needs to stop. [image] @ashcryptoreal : Do you see how weird it is ? Mark Zuckerberg could have launched threads anytime in last 10 years but he Only did it after elon bought it for $44 billion and exposed everyone. He is hitting when Elon is at its lowest. We need to appreciate and support Elon Musk ❤️ Tim Lyons / @picketer : This and how you have to give it access to your contacts means NFW. https://twitter.com/... @max_oats : look, whether you prefer bluesky, or mastodon, or cohost, or twitter, or threads, or tumblr, or schmeeple, or hive social, we can all at least agree that linkedin is shit @s8mb : When we said we wanted more competition on the internet, we meant from non-profit FOSS startups that don't collect any data or show ads. It isn't real competition when it's done by big American corporations that only exist for profit. Rob Delaney / @robdelaney : This is getting ridiculous [image] @prawn_meat : just opened threads. it's basically a fake app from a tv show that a teenage girl uses right before being murdered by cyberbullies. not doing that again @mikko : Users in EU can view threads on Threads, but can't sign up. https://www.threads.net/... @gojomo : our most-aesthetically-gifted trendmakers have warned: Twitter will imminently be eaten by an enormous mutant star-GOAT. for your safety, evacuate via the ‘B’ ark immediately. https://twitter.com/... Pragun / @pragdua : NO WAAYYYYY [image] @mikeisaac : other sort of knock-on effect of threads if it really takes off (and sticks around) is how it's juicing IG — followers are going up on IG for me purely from twtr folks who have migrated and never cared about my IG account Mike Cobraman / @mkupperman : Threads sounds great! They control the algorithm and you can't back out of it without deleting your instagram account? Sign me up! Jack Appleby / @jappleby : Here's THREADS' entire sign-up process. This is so clean. So easy. - instantly get your Instagram @ handle - auto imports your bio + pic from IG - instantly follow from your IG Reallyyy genius way to launch an app. [video] Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : The hardest thing for Thread is cold-starting a network, but anyone who worked at Twitter should be quietly embarrassed by how much nicer the thread app is. That's also why so many of us used third-party Twitter apps Brian Fung / @b_fung : I don't think I fully grasped until seeing it in action just how powerful it is that Meta has all this existing data about me. That you can recreate your whole social network on Threads with one tap lets the app skip what would normally be a huge hurdle for a nascent platform. Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : The biggest indictment of Reddit's and Twitter's product chops is the user love for third party apps The entire API saga both companies went through was an embarrassing show of incompetence of wasting opportunity to create a nice app over a decade and with limitless funding https://twitter.com/... @instagram : Rolling out now in 100+ countries. Learn more 👇 https://about.instagram.com/ ... Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : Look, Threads is buggy and it needs a browser interface ASAP, but it has so many built-in accounts from Instagram. It's an existential threat to this website, imo. Andrew Macfarlane / @andrewmacfnz : Interesting here from Meta: “We're committed to giving you more control over your audience on Threads - our plan is to work with ActivityPub to provide you the option to stop using Threads and transfer your content to another service.” https://twitter.com/... Campbell Brown / @campbell_brown : Excited about our new app, Threads, built by @Instagram. We took what Instagram does best - connecting people over photos & videos - and expanded that to text. Threads offers a new, separate space to share text updates & join convos. https://about.fb.com/... Greg Isenberg / @gregisenberg : It turns out, building an Instagram account is now 100x more valuable Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Zuck won the cage match @mikeisaac : unexpected side effect of my twtr graph colliding into my threads graph is a lot of new threads followers digging into my old IG photos.... i regret nothing and i see your deepfavs Austen Allred / @austen : My Facebook/Instagram social graph is basically all the people I knew in High School. “A place where you can read all the Twitter-like thoughts of the people you follow on Instagram” sounds like a special hell. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @Austen 🤣💯 Dan Primack / @danprimack : Two things can be true: 1/ Meta may topple Twitter. 2/ Meta for more than a decade has been little more than an imitation factory. Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer_ : Didn't take long for Threads to import the biggest hatemongers pushing anti LGBTQ hate. Libs if TikTok is now on Threads. Seems like they're going to recreate Twitter's anti LGBTQ hate. [image] Andy Staples / @andy_staples : If Threads is the Zuckerberg-Musk cage match we were promised, Zuck isn't trying very hard. All algorithm. No chronological view. All of our watching of sports together will definitely still happen here. @libsoftiktok : I joined Threads and in under an hour I've been told to kill myself, had death wished on me, was called a fascist, a nazi, and a terrorist, and had people plotting how to permanently ban me. The kind and tolerant left strikes again! https://twitter.com/... [video] Alex Cohen / @anothercohen : Imagine working at Meta and making $1m/year in total comp as a product manager and your entire job is to just copy and paste things from other apps. That's the dream Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Zuckerberg's last tweet was 11 years ago in 2012 Today he returned to Twitter to drop this tweet 👌🔥😆 https://twitter.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Mark Zuckerberg's first tweet in 11 years and he's trolling Twitter 🙃 https://twitter.com/... Karl Bode / @karlbode : the future of mainstream social media is just going to be dumb hustlebros, violently unfunny billionaires, and pseudo entrepreneurs just as far as the eye can see [image] Marshall Kirkpatrick / @marshallk : Let's see a Threads API, huh? Imagine a read-only API that just made it possible to surface interesting analyses synthesized from conversational data https://www.techmeme.com/... Rob Perez / @worldwidewob : this is how you return from an 11-year twitter hiatus. https://twitter.com/... Tom Harrington / @cbctom : As Twitter subscribers flock to Threads, here's a warning from Twitter's co-founder about Meta's deeper interest in you. https://twitter.com/... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Sad to inform the social media interns at brands are at it already [image] @rmac18 : Very funny that when we first reported on the rumblings of Meta's employees wanting to build a Twitter killer back in December, the company tried to downplay it as just rank-and-file chatter. https://www.nytimes.com/... Bobby Allyn / @bobbyallyn : this is a good time to remind everyone that Meta is the company that says it will systemically block news articles from all of its services in places where laws have been passed forcing them to pay publishers for content Drew Olanoff / @yoda : Seeing former Twitter employees use Threads is chefs kiss. @can : threads feels like for designers, by designers so far https://www.threads.net/... Brian Fung / @b_fung : It's not a perfect overlap. Most of my connections on Instagram are personal, not professional. Threads now seems poised to blur that work-life boundary for me. Precisely because of that, I skipped the auto-follow step in the onboarding process. @howfxr : Here's a first look at Instagram Threads on the web! 👀 [image] Brian Stelter / @brianstelter : What's the word for that feeling when a social network is being recreated in real time, person by person, bit by bit? Christopher Stanley / @cstanley : Honest question, what does @finkd mean “reason why Twitter never succeeded”? Do it differently? Threads looks and feels like a Twitter clone. 🐈 Someone please help me understand 😬 [image] Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Threads is fun, exploring a new social network with the launch buzz. I'm not feeling the home feed right now tho as it's similar to Twitter's “For You” which mixes in recommendations and accounts you don't follow. No option for a real time feed yet, but hopefully that comes 🙏 [image] Daniel Roberts / @readdanwrite : it's lit over on Threads! we can all just briefly pretend it's not from THAT parent company and enjoy ourselves for a few seconds Tim Sweeney / @timsweeneyepic : Did Meta just launch a new social media website without a website? Nu Wexler / @wexler : Good: I can keep my IG account private and my Threads account public. Bad: Who are these randos in my timeline? [image] @instagram : ✨ Threads is here - a new app where you can share updates and join convos ✨ Use your Instagram account to log in and get started 🎉 https://www.threads.net/ [image] Max Weinbach / @maxwinebach : Threads will 100% only be a thing people use for maybe a month @thomasgermain : Threads has been available for 30 minutes and people are already roasting Zuckerberg [image] @verge : Is this a thread? [image] Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : threads first impressions It's good Really good Elons in trouble Charlie Kirk / @charliekirk11 : Meta's new Threads has been endorsed by CNBC's Jim Cramer. And just like that it's all over. “I say game, set, match Zuckerberg....Facebook, Instagram is a really terrific product and Twitter is awful.” [video] Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla : “.. This is a space Twitter has been in and led for a while, but our perspective here is that there is an opportunity and people are looking for more choices.” @WSJ $META #threads https://www.wsj.com/... Adriana Porter Felt / @__apf__ : oh no. my deeply embarrassing Instagram account name that I thought only friends would see is now following me to the new app Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer_ : Because Threads is basically built on leftover code from Instagram, everyone shows up as their handle instead of their name. I have no idea who the hell anyone is. Their celebrity only beta missed this basic issue because using handles primarily benefits brands and celebrities! [image] Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : the fact that it will eventually work with decentralized social media apps is really intriguing. Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Folks, Instagram images preview on Threads [image] Alex Heath / @alexeheath : Meta's Twitter rival, Threads, is officially out. I interviewed the head of Instagram, @mosseri, about why he thinks Twitter's “volatility” and “unpredictability” under Elon Musk has opened the window to compete. https://www.theverge.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : I talked to @mosseri about Threads, a radical new social network where you can view more than 600 posts per day, totally free of charge https://www.platformer.news/ ... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Zuck is already using his new app to pitch himself on podcasts [image] @luxeprogressive : I mean he's kinda right though. Meta is much worse with your data than twitter ever has been. Meta is like Westworld https://twitter.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : will Instagram's Threads kill off Twitter? The existing Instagram userbase is very different to Twitter. I'm more likely to follow friends and family on Instagram than I am brands and news outlets. Twitter was successful because journalists, celebrities, and brands flocked to it... https://twitter.com/... @vladsavov : If the Instagram Threads app works exactly like Twitter did before - which isn't hard, Bluesky has already recreated it - and has robust verification so we know who's who... I'm jumping on that. Doesn't matter to me if I help Zuck or Jack or Musk. I want the lost utility back. @teroterotero : Right now, Threads is the most exclusive social network in the world - just the most powerful brands and “creators” preening around like white peacocks in a secret garden. https://twitter.com/... Dan Ives / @divestech : We believe the launch of Meta Threads is a clear strategy by Zuckerberg to go after Twitter's market opportunity and gain market share in this social media landscape. Building the scale and scope of Threads will be an uphill battle we believe further leveraging its Instagram base Threads: @mosseri : We couldn't be happier with all the excitement about this app, so thank you thank you, but this is a race to the starting line if there ever was one. The real test is not if we can build up a lot of hype, but if you all find enough value in the app to keep using it over time. … @zuck : It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will. Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : Honestly not then priority right now. So humbled by everyone signing up, but we gotta make sure this is an app people want to keep using before we worry about making money... Kayvon Asemani / @kayvonmusic : I had the privilege of working with @0xjessel, @lorettachan, & other amazing teammates on some creator-focused features on IG back in 2019. Mentioning you two specifically here... Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : the priority is the mobile apps, but we are working on www @fazeclan : THREAD DEAD REDEMPTION @instagram : hi you're here 🫶 Alice Fraser / @aliterative : Threads lets you automatically import everyone you follow on Instagram. But I don't follow people on Instagram for their thoughts. I follow people on Instagram for their pretty... Diego Perez / @yung_pueblo : Threads is probably one of the best platforms for new and established writers! Excited to see how it impacts the publishing/self-publishing industry. Might even have the... Casey Rain / @caseyrain : what if @zuck decides to make an electric car next lol @japanoninsta : Not followers 10k FRIENDS 🥹 Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Someone should get Spez a Threads account so he can see what happens if he keeps fucking around and Google decides to build a Reddit clone. Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : For those wondering if Threads will have DMs. My expectation is the team will listen to your feedback and evolve its plans if any of the base assumptions turn out to be... Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : To start, we're thinking we'll lean into being open and steering people towards using other messaging apps to share threads. I don't know if that'll last long term, but for now... @0xjessel : glad to say we won't be having any product leaks coming from at least one twitter reverse engineer ;) welcome @wongmjane to the team! Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Elon Musk excited that the load on Twitter's servers is going down until he realizes why. Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : Credit where it's due, they pioneered the format and have done great work Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : We tried, the issue is you need to be able to tap on a thread to open the full thread, and you really don't want to have an element that you can both tap and double tap... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc : Alright, let's do this thing! May this platform have good vibes, strong community, excellent humor, and less harassment 🪄 Akshay Elavia / @itselavia : Zuck you need to be actively shitposting on here to make that happen. LFG! Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck : Not my style personally, but I'm sure there will be plenty of entertaining content here... Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck : Good question. I'm currently planning to use my Instagram broadcast channel for daily product updates and Threads for discussion and sharing thoughts, but we'll see where... Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck : Hope your shoulder is healing. Can't wait for your next fight! Dave Camarillo / @davecamarillo : Excited about my buddy @zuck 's new venture. Threads...happy to be here. Jeremy Liew / @jeremysliew : Since stepping back at Lighspeed I've found time to pick up new hobbies. What suggestions do you have for new skills to learn, games or sports to play etc? Naomi Gleit / @naomigleit : Threading this Tweet 🤪 Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : My two cents, think more about what conversations you want to have, and do those in this app, whether or not they start with text or video... @whatsapp : zapzap Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Bosses joining Threads like: Eliza Orlins / @eorlins : Ugh I'm ALWAYS a very early adopter and 2303439 feels way late 🥺🥺 @absolutelyashika : Also, @mosseri where's the Twitter bashing at? A good fight would be just the exercise I need at the start of my day 🥊 🥊 Millie Gooch / @milliegooch : This app kinda feels like a party I was dreading and reluctantly attended but it ended up not being awful when I got there and I ultimately decided I had a half-decent time. Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck : The team did a great job with Threads v1. A long journey ahead but a really talented group built a strong foundation. Tobi Lutke / @tobi : There are so many great little design touches in threads. Really great. @h1brd : You can start with @rourkery and @briansw but theres more folks ❤️ Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : It's so over, we're so back Alok / @alokvmenon : overnight the world discovers the ancient desi practice of threading. the browse will never be the same. Bill Gates / @thisisbillgates : I'm excited to jump into @threadsapp David Marcus / @davidmarcus : Congrats @mosseri & team! Gerek Meinhardt / @gerekmeinhardt : Congrats on the launch @zuck! Needed this space. Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : For those of you trying to think about what to post here on Threads versus on Instagram, my take is it's less about text versus photos and videos and more about what public... Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck : We are definitely focusing on kindness and making this a friendly place. @mikedavismma : Anyone think this can become bigger than twitter!? Forums: r/technology : You can't post ass, Threads is doomed See also Mediagazer
On Twitter, everyone's voice matters. Whether you're here to watch history unfold, discover REAL-TIME information all over the world, share your opinions, or learn about others — on Twitter YOU can be real. YOU built the Twitter community. 🙏👏 And that's irreplaceable. This... htt…
Facebook had a lot of slackers when I was there, but when something started working, the best people in the company immediately transferred to that team and worked their asses off. That's happening now.
you can be you if you pay 8 dollars. so many bots have become real, while the rest of us refusing to pay for a platform where we create content, got deboosted or stripped of our earned credentials. But, we are indeed still there, trying to be us. https://twitter.com/...
🎉 Threads 🎉 Threads is our new app, built by the Instagram team, for text updates and joining public conversations ✨ We're hoping Threads can be great space for public conversations, and we're very focused on the creator communities that already enjoy Instagram. Available... http…
the goal of Threads is to stop you from being able to have your own follower list Big tech wants to create a singular narrative and its not possible using the old model of “choose who to follow” This is why Insta and Threads forces you to see posts from people you dont know
i don't have any interest in using threads at all but it is really funny watching the people at twitter panic now that there's clearly an open market for a website where people post their little sentences https://twitter.com/...
“𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 won't work because it doesn't allow you to import your Twitter followers” Let me invert that statement for you: How many of your non-Twitter friends would become activated on Twitter if they could import their 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 social graph?
🧵 A Brief Thread On Threads 🧵 : Normie users came to Twitter for Oprah, not some shitposting rando. Before emoji-in-bio factions became the norm & brainworms spread & this place became The Arena to scapegoat some hapless Main Character every day, ppl wanted to talk to celebs.
Personal News — I've joined @Meta to work on Threads, an app built by @instagram! Can't wait to craft the unreleased and shape the digital future together!
check me out on threads. heres a picture of my threads account C:/Users/Ben/Downloads/nudemanwithextre melyfuckedupballsvomitingontotheamerican flag- 1200px.webp
IS THREADS A THREAT? Facebook's clones of Snapchat and TikTok have been fairly successful, but haven't killed either Snapchat or TikTok. I think that's the base case. An alternative scenario is Google Plus, which came out strong but didn't have staying power. But Facebook has... …
the substack nuke never made much sense to me, nor did media obsession with the other fake twitters. but meta is a proven clone assassin, at scale, run by the industry's longest running social media exec. this is the first real challenge to twitter in the company's history.
Those saying Threads is a fluke have forgotten that Facebook Paper was once a product experiment that failed. Meta has the benefit of experiencing failure before. They won't make the same mistake twice. They took their time with this and it is evident in the design. Not kneejerk …
the nice thing about Twitter's user experience getting super crappy in recent days is it's lowered the mental bar for embracing new competitive social media platforms that are working out their own kinks
Do you see how weird it is ? Mark Zuckerberg could have launched threads anytime in last 10 years but he Only did it after elon bought it for $44 billion and exposed everyone. He is hitting when Elon is at its lowest. We need to appreciate and support Elon Musk ❤️
look, whether you prefer bluesky, or mastodon, or cohost, or twitter, or threads, or tumblr, or schmeeple, or hive social, we can all at least agree that linkedin is shit
When we said we wanted more competition on the internet, we meant from non-profit FOSS startups that don't collect any data or show ads. It isn't real competition when it's done by big American corporations that only exist for profit.
just opened threads. it's basically a fake app from a tv show that a teenage girl uses right before being murdered by cyberbullies. not doing that again
our most-aesthetically-gifted trendmakers have warned: Twitter will imminently be eaten by an enormous mutant star-GOAT. for your safety, evacuate via the ‘B’ ark immediately. https://twitter.com/...
other sort of knock-on effect of threads if it really takes off (and sticks around) is how it's juicing IG — followers are going up on IG for me purely from twtr folks who have migrated and never cared about my IG account
Here's THREADS' entire sign-up process. This is so clean. So easy. - instantly get your Instagram @ handle - auto imports your bio + pic from IG - instantly follow from your IG Reallyyy genius way to launch an app. [video]
The hardest thing for Thread is cold-starting a network, but anyone who worked at Twitter should be quietly embarrassed by how much nicer the thread app is. That's also why so many of us used third-party Twitter apps
I don't think I fully grasped until seeing it in action just how powerful it is that Meta has all this existing data about me. That you can recreate your whole social network on Threads with one tap lets the app skip what would normally be a huge hurdle for a nascent platform.
The biggest indictment of Reddit's and Twitter's product chops is the user love for third party apps The entire API saga both companies went through was an embarrassing show of incompetence of wasting opportunity to create a nice app over a decade and with limitless funding https…
Look, Threads is buggy and it needs a browser interface ASAP, but it has so many built-in accounts from Instagram. It's an existential threat to this website, imo.
Interesting here from Meta: “We're committed to giving you more control over your audience on Threads - our plan is to work with ActivityPub to provide you the option to stop using Threads and transfer your content to another service.” https://twitter.com/...
Excited about our new app, Threads, built by @Instagram. We took what Instagram does best - connecting people over photos & videos - and expanded that to text. Threads offers a new, separate space to share text updates & join convos. https://about.fb.com/...
unexpected side effect of my twtr graph colliding into my threads graph is a lot of new threads followers digging into my old IG photos.... i regret nothing and i see your deepfavs
My Facebook/Instagram social graph is basically all the people I knew in High School. “A place where you can read all the Twitter-like thoughts of the people you follow on Instagram” sounds like a special hell.
Didn't take long for Threads to import the biggest hatemongers pushing anti LGBTQ hate. Libs if TikTok is now on Threads. Seems like they're going to recreate Twitter's anti LGBTQ hate. [image]
If Threads is the Zuckerberg-Musk cage match we were promised, Zuck isn't trying very hard. All algorithm. No chronological view. All of our watching of sports together will definitely still happen here.
I joined Threads and in under an hour I've been told to kill myself, had death wished on me, was called a fascist, a nazi, and a terrorist, and had people plotting how to permanently ban me. The kind and tolerant left strikes again! https://twitter.com/... [video]
Imagine working at Meta and making $1m/year in total comp as a product manager and your entire job is to just copy and paste things from other apps. That's the dream
the future of mainstream social media is just going to be dumb hustlebros, violently unfunny billionaires, and pseudo entrepreneurs just as far as the eye can see [image]
Let's see a Threads API, huh? Imagine a read-only API that just made it possible to surface interesting analyses synthesized from conversational data https://www.techmeme.com/...
Very funny that when we first reported on the rumblings of Meta's employees wanting to build a Twitter killer back in December, the company tried to downplay it as just rank-and-file chatter. https://www.nytimes.com/...
this is a good time to remind everyone that Meta is the company that says it will systemically block news articles from all of its services in places where laws have been passed forcing them to pay publishers for content
It's not a perfect overlap. Most of my connections on Instagram are personal, not professional. Threads now seems poised to blur that work-life boundary for me. Precisely because of that, I skipped the auto-follow step in the onboarding process.
Honest question, what does @finkd mean “reason why Twitter never succeeded”? Do it differently? Threads looks and feels like a Twitter clone. 🐈 Someone please help me understand 😬 [image]
Threads is fun, exploring a new social network with the launch buzz. I'm not feeling the home feed right now tho as it's similar to Twitter's “For You” which mixes in recommendations and accounts you don't follow. No option for a real time feed yet, but hopefully that comes 🙏 [im…
✨ Threads is here - a new app where you can share updates and join convos ✨ Use your Instagram account to log in and get started 🎉 https://www.threads.net/ [image]
Meta's new Threads has been endorsed by CNBC's Jim Cramer. And just like that it's all over. “I say game, set, match Zuckerberg....Facebook, Instagram is a really terrific product and Twitter is awful.” [video]
“.. This is a space Twitter has been in and led for a while, but our perspective here is that there is an opportunity and people are looking for more choices.” @WSJ $META #threads https://www.wsj.com/...
Because Threads is basically built on leftover code from Instagram, everyone shows up as their handle instead of their name. I have no idea who the hell anyone is. Their celebrity only beta missed this basic issue because using handles primarily benefits brands and celebrities! […
Meta's Twitter rival, Threads, is officially out. I interviewed the head of Instagram, @mosseri, about why he thinks Twitter's “volatility” and “unpredictability” under Elon Musk has opened the window to compete. https://www.theverge.com/...
I talked to @mosseri about Threads, a radical new social network where you can view more than 600 posts per day, totally free of charge https://www.platformer.news/ ...
will Instagram's Threads kill off Twitter? The existing Instagram userbase is very different to Twitter. I'm more likely to follow friends and family on Instagram than I am brands and news outlets. Twitter was successful because journalists, celebrities, and brands flocked to it.…
If the Instagram Threads app works exactly like Twitter did before - which isn't hard, Bluesky has already recreated it - and has robust verification so we know who's who... I'm jumping on that. Doesn't matter to me if I help Zuck or Jack or Musk. I want the lost utility back.
Right now, Threads is the most exclusive social network in the world - just the most powerful brands and “creators” preening around like white peacocks in a secret garden. https://twitter.com/...
We believe the launch of Meta Threads is a clear strategy by Zuckerberg to go after Twitter's market opportunity and gain market share in this social media landscape. Building the scale and scope of Threads will be an uphill battle we believe further leveraging its Instagram base
It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will.
Honestly not then priority right now. So humbled by everyone signing up, but we gotta make sure this is an app people want to keep using before we worry about making money...
I had the privilege of working with @0xjessel, @lorettachan, & other amazing teammates on some creator-focused features on IG back in 2019. Mentioning you two specifically here...
Threads lets you automatically import everyone you follow on Instagram. But I don't follow people on Instagram for their thoughts. I follow people on Instagram for their pretty...
Threads is probably one of the best platforms for new and established writers! Excited to see how it impacts the publishing/self-publishing industry. Might even have the...
For those wondering if Threads will have DMs. My expectation is the team will listen to your feedback and evolve its plans if any of the base assumptions turn out to be...
We tried, the issue is you need to be able to tap on a thread to open the full thread, and you really don't want to have an element that you can both tap and double tap...
Good question. I'm currently planning to use my Instagram broadcast channel for daily product updates and Threads for discussion and sharing thoughts, but we'll see where...
Since stepping back at Lighspeed I've found time to pick up new hobbies. What suggestions do you have for new skills to learn, games or sports to play etc?
To start, we're thinking we'll lean into being open and steering people towards using other messaging apps to share threads. I don't know if that'll last long term, but for now...
This app kinda feels like a party I was dreading and reluctantly attended but it ended up not being awful when I got there and I ultimately decided I had a half-decent time.
For those of you trying to think about what to post here on Threads versus on Instagram, my take is it's less about text versus photos and videos and more about what public...
Seeing a lot of new people joining Threads right now. I hope you'll maintain the culture some of us old timers have been cultivating since this morning when I got in
This seems like fun so far. I think it's the dopamine rushes from seeing people follow you. Unlike Bluesky, it feels more open. Unlike Mastadon, it feels more user-friendly. And unlike Twitter, so far, this feels less toxic.