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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by sangnoir on Monday July 03, 2023 @11:12PM (#36581734)
At least pre-Musk Twitter quick to adopt popular user-innovations as first-class features (RT, QT, threads & more); features filtered upwards from users. Musk-Twitter is very top-down in trying to incentivize specific monetizable/political behaviors.
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by KeplerBoy on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:49AM (#36582674)
Haven't all this features been a thing since forever?
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by rsynnott on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:50AM (#36583989)
None of them were in the original product; they were essentially community-created.
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by nathell on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:37AM (#36584278)
As an example, RTs have been an official feature since late 2009 (https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2009/retweet-limit...), more than three years after Twitter has first gone live.
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