Re:Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]
by ajorgensen on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:15PM
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Totally... the only thing I can be convinced of is my Twitter social graph looks quite different from my Instagram and Facebook graphs. The letter explicitly calls out follower graph and following data which is the only reason why I would even entertain this as a even remotely plausible theory.
But this is Meta, millions of people will join regardless. The content will generate itself. There is no need for bootstrapping with stolen content, nor any insight to gain from analyzing twitter's content patterns.
And if they were faced with a slow start, a tiny banner on instagram or facebook would convert hundreds of millions of users in a matter of days.