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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He bought the users. Elon knows that people are lazy and will not change websites.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

-50% ad revenue says otherwise

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter could have 200% more users, if no one want to show them ads, then ad spots will be dirt cheap. Printing 5 millions of 1cent ads vs 1 million of 10cents ads is not the same. Both on income and expenses...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This, so much this. I also find it rather coincidental that fb cam out with threads soon after the twitter implosion. Opportunistic feasting on a dead carcass perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter has been on the outs since musk bought it. If Facebook was smart they'd have started right then.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Threads still doesn't have #hashtag searching IIRC. It's missing a huge number of features. It's clear that they only came out as early as they did because they saw an opportunity to eat Twitter's lunch.

They really needed a few more months of dev time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bluesky is the same way. There are a lot of features there that still need to be implemented.

I’m glad Masto at least has hashtags and video and gifs and editing. For me right now it has the best features and the best experience. I’m pretty happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"users" - more than 50% are likely to be bots, LOL

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Threads has like 100 million sign ups. It could replace Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That saw an overnight 50% drop in activity. People were kinda pissed to find out that Meta created them a Threads handle from their Facebook/Instagram and immediately deactivated their Threads accounts. I don't know what it means, but I like it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is it possible to deactivate your account without downloading the app?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have an account unless you activate it, but they do hold your Instagram handle if you were to sign up that would be your Threads handle. The 50% drop in activity is because the app is lame as hell, and once people saw it they were done. No chronological sorting option, not even an option to only see threads from the people you follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

not even an option to only see threads from the people you follow.

lol then what's the fucking point of following anyone