I think a big part of the initial explosive growth was due to ease of access. Almost everybody has an instagram account, and that made it really easy for people to just “check out” threads. I’m not surprised that a lot of people didn’t end up sticking around.
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Just like twitter rose to prominence as being one stolen feature of facebook (that being the contemporary facebook’s “status”), Meta must pull a single feature from its long-dead predecessors. I demand platform where you list 6 of the people you know from Most favorite to Least, the top three being Tom, Air-humping Storm Trooper and Tila Tequila. That is the only thing that can undo the unknown energies of the Blue Bird,
It's like movie companies boasting "BIGGEST GROSSING MOVIE OF THE SUMMER"
Yea but your Rotten Tomatoes score is, like, 10 Lol
Seeing how useless Rotton Tomatoes is as a barometer of quality, I’m not sure that the best metaphor.
I found it terribly boring. It felt like twitter but with much less functionality.
Someone accidentally shutdown the bot farm
And half of movement there is just bots reposting shit from twitter. Indeed great success.
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The impression I got from Threads is it was all the ads and brands of twitter without the actual people.