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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by marcosdumay on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:44PM (#36912240)
Meanwhile, Twitter keeps its slow death.

People are certainly going somewhere (outside?), what isn't happening is for all of them going to the same place. IMO, that's a very good thing, but it does break any ambition of social world domination large companies may have.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by hcurtiss on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:03PM (#36913288)
Last numbers I saw, Twitter DAUs have held pretty steady. What evidence do you have of a "slow death"?
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by _jal on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:09PM (#36913352)
Xitter has moved from offering 50% off add purchases of $250k a couple months ago to threatening removal of "gold checks" from companies that don't spend $1k.

That is not the strategy of a healthy advertising-driven company. It isn't even a strategy, that's flop-sweat.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by hcurtiss on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:49PM (#36913821)
I wouldn't be so sure. Tesla lowered prices and the press made the same kinds of predictions. Come earning season Tesla clobbered its competitors.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by gerdesj on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:23PM (#36914744)
This isn't Tesla - its Twitter or X.

You might as well jabber on about tulip bulbs.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by evandale on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:31AM (#36916947)
The Musk brand sells.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by qwytw on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:18AM (#36917741)
Except there is a fine amount of ads you can show on your platform before it becomes oversaturated...
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by dhosek on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:00AM (#36916750)
The thing is that what matters is not the total number of users but who those users are. Anecdotally, there has been a slow exodus of people in my writer circles from Twitter, either deleting their accounts or just not using them as much. I’ve found less to bring me back each day. There might be people engaging more to make up for it, but they’re not the people in my circles.
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