Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
by pornel on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:32PM
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was a deliberate strategy to lure only "normals" away from Twitter, so that the remaining faithful X users will be the loudest, edgiest, most politically polarized ones, speeding up the vicious cycle of X becoming nothing more than a toxic culture war battleground.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
by kelipso on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:54PM
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Hopefully a battleground that no one will care about because the normies got lured away. Twitter not being a cultural network is probably much better for society because these always online losers currently seem to have much higher influence on society than they should.
Yeah, for the "chronically online". But twitter is also celebs and brands, and the "normals" following them. I think for those Threads will find an audience. It will be... Twitter, but for Instagram.
Twitter has always had an outside impact compared to it's actual userbase, mainly due to nailing the news media + politics segment. Threads could fail to pick up the same cultural impact, but still be a thriving business/website, especially if brands and advertisers prefer it over Twitter.