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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.

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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

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