Since it already worked with instagram, this was people signing in with their instagram account, checking the app once or twice, and then going back to instagram. The starting numbers where incredibly manipulated because of this single account system between threads and instagram.
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I saw a lot of people excited to try it. Losing 80% of its peak users at this point doesn't seem like a failure to me. Anybody who was curious was counted as a user. I'm sure fediverse sites have had similar, smaller influxes of new users that create an account to check it out and then don't come back. It takes some determination to move to another social networking ecosystem.
Good I love to see Facebook projects fail
It's a worse Mastodon, run by a company that celebrated election misinformation, leading to the storming of the Capitol, and who later helped police arrest a woman for abortion by turning over private messages she sent to another party. I hope it fails.
I mean if you pay attention most social media inundated with influencers and companies is basically:
"Buy this, no buy this, buy this instead, spend your money here!" It even leeches into everyday conversations outside of social media.
Pay attention to how often people talk about buying things and newly released products. Hell, I've caught myself contributing to it. It's kind of gross when you realize how steeped in consumerism nearly everything has become.
Who are they even selling to? Everybody's broke.
Not sure why anyone wanted a second twitter that’s still made by a big-tech
spoiler
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I don't understand why someone would choose threads over mastadon, where they could have all the dunking with none of the enshittening.
It's still too complicated for the layperson to have to navigate. Anything beyond "I have one login at one site that everyone else has" is too much for most.
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Nobody chose threads. It just got shoved down their throats.
Also, Mastadon doesn't have the same marketing these companies do.
I'd be keen to give it a go if it were legitimately anyone else besides Facebook. Would have even tried it if Microsoft made a random Twitter clone
Well, shareholders, employees and advertisers, wanted it to make money on the users. Even if only 5% users remain, that's still better than the current interest rates after investment fund's fees.
Facebook/Instagram users wanted to check it out, because why not, creating an account was just a couple clicks.
Everyone else... they didn't, and from the looks of it, they still don't.
Zuck wanted it, and literally nobody else. They're going to need to implement ActivityPub just so every blue checkmark on earth can launch their own social network where they are the only users.
damn, reading the data collected from the Play Store made me finally delete my instagram account. the damn app is a free farm of data. fuck zuck
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A lot of people tried it out the first few days. Didn't found the function they need and left.
Probably a lot will go back if its fully functional. Honestly cannot believe a Twitter alternative did not launch with chronological feed....
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Similarweb, a digital intelligence platform, shared its data with Gizmodo showing Threads daily active users hovered around 49 million just two days after launch.
David Carr, a senior insights manager at the analysis company, told us the engagement time based on just U.S. user data was slightly more favorable to Threads, but not by much.
Back during its 15 minutes of fame, Threads was leveraged as the fastest-growing platform in the history of apps, hitting 100 million user signups less than a week after launch.
Instagram head Amad Mosseri has also mentioned their intent to connect Threads to the decentralized Fediverse, though whether that drives new-found interest in the app is anyone’s guess.
It was clear from Thread’s launch that users were desperate for a Twitter alternative away from owner Elon Musk’s unending march toward making the platform a pay-to-play hellscape.
A big problem with the app was that it simply didn’t include features found in its main competitors, and the company spent years playing catch up, but all in vain.
I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Absolutely love this bot. No longer need to leave the app to read articles 💪
+1 Hate that Connect uses a chrome browser and not my system default. :T
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That's good news. First it was 50% and now 80%. How 100% meta loses its users.
I'd still rather see Threads succeed and Twitter die now that a fash-friendly owner lets fashy types run wild.
Meta plays at least as large a part in radicalizing the boomers towards fascism via Facebook
Yep, if Threads can accelerate the death of - ugh - X, it will have served its purpose.
Good, hopefully it keeps tanking so we don't have to pay any further mind to it.
And here I am... I've never even tried it.
Honestly not that big of a deal. When something is hyped up users who either didn't or barely used Twitter (X) probably joined in. It boosted their initial numbers but again they fell off. They'll grow as unique content grows. That happens with everything, as will the case be with Lemmy. Growth isn't linear.
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Turns out, the brands and the ads weren't the reason people were sticking to Twitter.
You mean people aren't hopping on the join the conversation with Crisco and General Mills? Who woulda thunk! I thought for sure that would be the killer application right there.
I like how they made the logo look like it says “ADS” throughout.
The Ads
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This is what happens when you launch with no content discovery features, so you have to whore yourself out and follow anyone and everyone if you want to get any attention. "Content creators" and clout chasers are the primary customer of this service, so without that I don't know why they'd want to use it.
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It's just companies and influencers, nobody else is posting much there. And half of the influencers are only there to try to get you to follow them somewhere else. (feed is absolutely crammed with Taylor "not wearing a mask outdoors in 2023 is literally genocide" Lorenz hawking her new YouTube channel and I don't even follow her)
Meanwhile Mastodon continues growing steadily, and I'm getting as much engagement there as I ever did on Twitter with maybe 10% as many followers.
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Sounds like Threads has lost the thread...
I'll see myself out.
Ive been hearing the same headline for two weeks now
This looks like a hype cycle pattern, and they are entering the trough of disillusionment phase.
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They should have implemented activity pub support from day 1. They rushed the roll out because they wanted to make us of Twitter's (one of many) fuck ups but failed to keep users.
They probably should have, but I'm glad they didn't.
I am very glad they didn't. I hope they never do.
Because it's so boring. It doesn't have a "trending" tab and every post is an ad.
10 million DAU's is still pretty impressive
They could have picked a better name. Took me a while to figure out that https://threads.com/ isn't the right app. Visiting https://www.threads.net/ wasn't exactly enlightening either.
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