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Re:Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results by threeseed on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:18PM (#42873658)
> they haven't ever really had a hit product after the first one

Threads is the fastest growing app in history.

And its insane growth showed quite starkly the raw power of Instagram and Facebook in being able to drive large volumes of traffic and bootstrap new products overnight.

I would be surprised if they didn’t try this again to launch a new dedicated TikTok competitor.

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Re:Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results by kranke155 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:45AM (#42876094)
Fair. I am on threads and it’s fairly interesting.

However it suffers from what I’d call most of the content being unantheutic. No one is making content just for Threads. They’re sharing videos or tweets from other platforms and it’s their secondary platform.

I’m not sure there’s some niche this isn’t true. But to me threads feels like the personal version of LinkedIn. Lots of self advertising, very little authenticity.

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