Re:Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
by pc86 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:58PM
(#36610019)
My Twitter is full of two things - people doing exactly the same thing they were doing a year, two years, three years ago, and people saying how Twitter is such a dumpster fire now and everything is so bad and it's the end and Twitter will be dead soon (but they're still on it).
I'm not saying Twitter is going to be around 20 years from now, but I do think the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
Re:Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
by Dalewyn on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:02PM
(#36610051)
A game I play held a retweeting campaign[1] (common thing for games) yesterday, and it successfully passed their usual threshold (70k retweets) like any other time they held one.
That was indication to me that claims of Twitter's death are, indeed, greatly exaggerated as always.
I don't doubt some people are getting rate limited, but I also have no doubt now that those people are the vocal minority while everyone else keeps on tweeting.
[1]: https://twitter.com/fgoproject/status/1676426390625812481
Re:Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
by worrycue on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:48PM
(#36610453)
> but the App seemed decent; smooth UI animations, clean interface, simple onboarding with an overall decent UX
Web mobile UI is horrible though.*
* It doesn’t exist. Just a page to telling you to get the app. >.>
Who was sanctimoniously instructing people to 'collectively be more civil'.
Not a platform I want to use, but the App seemed decent; smooth UI animations, clean interface, simple onboarding with an overall decent UX.
I think Instagram people who are Twitter curious will jump on it.
If they can get Celeb style Tweets and memes without having to interact with the Garbage Fire that is Twitter, then I think it's going to be a nice easy win for Meta.
Not a raging multi-billion dollar success like Instagram, but an OK casual slow burn that offers value to Instagram users.