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Threads Surpasses 30M Signups
- Lex-2008 3y agonon-geoblocked content, for people in EU: https://archive.is/TAIyP https://archive.is/TAIyP
- AdamJacobMuller 3y agoThreads is blocked in the EU?
- rosywoozlechan 3y agoyes, they have to address EU compliance requirements before they can release it there
- swores 3y agoAnd to clarify, it's not "blocked", rather it hasn't launched in EU countries (and indeed reported to be due to worries regarding legal compliance, but afaik no official statements on what aspects of (presumably mostly GDPR) law Threads has / might have issues with that FB/Instagram don't, nor whether there's significant work to be done or if it's just that their legal team haven't yet finished deciding that it can launch there.
- saiya-jin 3y agotells you how good and moral the parent company's intentions and priorities are
- InCityDreams 3y agoNot wanted here...you can keep it. Besides, 30m people can't be wrong. though it would be interesting to see how many Europeons do eventually sign up, once our inalienabile rights have been paid for, i mean 'guaranteed'.
- Kiro 3y agoJust reading is not geoblocked. The original link works fine for me.
- Lex-2008 3y agooh, indeed! For me it was showing just a Threads logo when I had "enhanced tracking protection" enabled in Firefox. After disabling it, I can read the website fine. Thanks!
- jitl 3y agoWhen the app basically amounts to a new tab for an existing dominant social network, I don’t think this is too interesting. It’s almost like reporting “30M people opened the Facebook Marketplace tab” or something. I signed in, took one look at a Mr Beast tweet on my homepage, wondered “why would I want to look at this?” and then closed the app. But I count as a signup!
- cma 3y ago>one look at a Mr Beast tweet on my homepage, wondered “why would I want to look at this?" I would think you'd always expect the most popular stuff to be recommended to you until you have some data in the app for the recommendation engine to go off of?
- c-hendricks 3y agoI haven't done much digging but I don't see where I would go to only see content of people I follow.
- kevin_nisbet 3y agoWhile you are correct, I think this is one of those the user might not care, and a contributor to why being an upstart in this market segment can be so difficult.
- rosywoozlechan 3y agoI really want the old pre-musk, before blue checkmarks, Twitter back so I've been trying to give it a real go. Something's gotta fill that void I have now. It can't be Twitter, it is so terrible now. Bluesky and Mastadon just haven't done it for me either.
- suby 3y agoOther than people complaining that the new twitter sucks, I have noticed no difference. Why is it terrible now, and why was it good before? The checkmark thing is whatever, I never gave checkmarks any deference.
- drcongo 3y agoOh good. Yet another one of these posts.
- nmcela 3y agoIndeed, each one brings worse news than the previous.
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- rglover 3y agoUsually I'm pretty judgmental about moves like this, but despite the limited feature set, I think the execution here is impressive. Solid UI, easy to follow accounts, and basic UX interactions just work. The only "gotcha" (and it's a massive one) that I've seen are the privacy implications. If they take a step back on that, this could be a legitimate threat to Twitter in a few months time—especially if they establish a healthy release pace.
- bedobi 3y agoWhat privacy implications?
- Tijdreiziger 3y agohttps://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-no-eu-launch/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-no-eu-launch/
- bfuller 3y agoIt couldn't be any bigger of a threat to twitter than twitter itself
- gremlinsinc 3y agotogether it's a The Cascadia tsunami that will bury all of Washington and much of Oregon.
- cute_boi 3y agoit would be naive to assume that company like facebook/meta is gonna value privacy in long run.
- rtkwe 3y agoThe huge issue for me right now is there's no way to look at just the accounts you follow. Without that it's just as bad as the For You page on twitter which isn't great. It's the same issue making me hate Instagram at the moment you can only disable suggested posts in your feed 30 days at a time.
- warning26 3y agoThey mention the fediverse in their onboarding flow, so it seems like they’re somewhat serious about interoperability. I’m really hoping that this will be the push needed to make ActivityPub social networking go mainstream.
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- mattboardman 3y agoI think the promise of threads is exactly what many people want. Hopefully the product improves to meet the expectations. Some things I'd like to see: 1. Native notes like feature for long form posts I can embed and share. I cannot stand the tweets threads of (n/27) about a topic. 2. Topic based feeds. Whether it's hashtags or some other type of categorization process. I think I read on HN the other day a twitter engineer had come up with something like that but it never got buy in from the decision makers. This would also help filter out things I don't want to see more broadly than manually muting users. 3. Enabling the option to only see verified accounts. 4. Private threads. Threads where you can tag an audience where only they can see the posts and replies. This would be a form of DM that isn't just another chat app.
- svaha1728 3y agoAre there any good lists of scientific, academic, hacker-news type people to follow? Was hoping to see Yann LeCun at least, but so far it’s just Mr. Beast, etc.
- lapcat 3y agoHow many of these posts do we need? Is HN to become an hourly counter? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612615 Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610716 Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632 Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
- post-it 3y ago2M -> 5M = 2.5x 5M -> 10M = 2x 10M -> 30M = 3x Counting at exponential intervals is fine and notable.
- aubanel 3y agoMaybe exponential intervals are better than linear indeed. But your remark is orthogonal to parent's complaint that the updates are simply too frequent: to take your exponential framework, they would probably prefer a x100 interval before the next post rather than a x3.
- post-it 3y agoAssuming we see a new post about Threads user growth at x2 intervals, we'll see a maximum of eight more posts before they run out of humans.
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- aubanel 3y agoAnd would all of these posts be useful information?
- post-it 3y agoThe comments would be. They'd be a nucleus for the latest findings about Threads. For example, in the comments of the most recent one I found out that although you can deactivate a Threads account, you can't delete it without also deleting the linked Instagram account. That's useful to know.
- jjcm 3y agoAny non-invite launch will peak heavily to start, and drop very quickly after. One thing I'd be very curious about is what their WAU will be a month from now. This is the death knell for any social network - can you get ongoing engagement instead of just "Testing this new platform for the first time, here's a dog pic" type posts? One thing that worries me for their longevity is that they don't actually offer any tangible user benefit. Right now their biggest sales pitch is that they're "not twitter". Many of those users who were looking for a solid replacements have moved to mastodon already, so it'll be interesting to see if they have long term stickiness. Still that doesn't discount that this is a massive amount of users on day 1. Big props to the team!
- denvaar 3y agoNever heard of Threads until seeing this post. Not sure if the home page is broken, or if it is just utterly unhelpful in learning more about this app. It seems like the goal is to get you to install the app to find out. I'm giving it a shot, so I guess it worked.
- cvhashim04 3y agoWhy is this flagged? It’s worth having the discussion
- drcongo 3y agoPresumably because it's the tenth one of these we've had today and the discussion under each is identical.
- dgrin91 3y agoI'm not a social media guy, I'm not going to use threads probably ever, and I understand that Threads is basically just an appendage out of Insta... But I still say hats off to the devs for making a product that scaled so well so quickly. How many day 1 launches fail due to servers buckling under the load? Props to you guys for a technical job well done.
- gremlinsinc 3y agoto be fair, if load is just shared between Instagram servers, a lot of people are probably testing out threads and using Instagram less today. Though, I imagine twitters usage is dropping like a fly. How they retain any advertisers after this, I can't imagine.
- dddrh 3y agoMy biggest issue with Threads is that search only searches profiles. What was Twitter’s “magic” to me was that search was for tweets. So you could hear about a live event happening and in near-time find information about it and people who were there or knowledgeable about the event. My first exposure to this was the Atlanta Gas Shortages in 2008 and it was when the hashtag really came into its prime as a way to quickly find relevant content. Threads has none of that. Try searching for the “Tour De France”. This morning when I did that I only got two profiles. This kills discoverability and the ability to follow the zeitgeist. If Threads changes search to index content then it could work. But until then it’s just bland with its attempt at using an algorithm to spoon feed you content without your ability to control what you want to see. Shameless link to the thread where I first put these thoughts down: https://www.threads.net/t/CuW77iEuquK/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.threads.net/t/CuW77iEuquK/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA...
- ryzvonusef 3y agoI signed up out of curiosity, but just like my instagram/tiktok/Mastadon/whetever accounts, they are just... there. People like me count as a signup, but active users after the hype dies down will matter more. I stick to youtube even for shorts, because its content/recommendations are much better than tiktok/instagram reels (I could spend time time curating it, but why other when Youtube has already done it for me?) Same for twitter, already curated with multiple lists setup for me to browse depending on topic, I am not going to do the same on threads/bluesky/mastadon, ain't nobody got time for that. Something drastic will have to happen for me to switch, but it's unlikely. Then again I am in the wrong demographic. I guess its the age group thing, I am in my mid-30's, a Gen-whatever we are called. New kids probably who are hyped on instagram and tiktok are probably already telling us OK boomer and making leet memes on threads, and we will just look on in confusion. I will believe Threads is real when people start to ratio each other on it. ____ Prophecy: usage will split and depending on the social/cultural/commercial sphere, people will start posting on the relevant platform. If you regularly post on instagram, you will append threads into your workflow. News twitter will NOT be following to threads. Food twitter will, and stuff like that.
- gremlinsinc 3y agoI actually like it better, if only because they have nested threads like HN and Reddit which makes way more sense than twitters single thread replies. They definitely need better search and hashtags, but for day 0 launch it's not too shabby.
- ryzvonusef 3y agoI am waiting for a better web experience before I dive in, I have the app installed but for now it feels weird to me. Maybe I am getting old?
- gremlinsinc 3y agoAbc, cnn, Yahoo News, techcrunch, wired, Bloomberg, vice, and many others are already posting news updates on threads, so I don't know how you figure?
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago[dupe] We can stop posting these now? There's plenty of discussion in the other two or three threads (pun intended) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632
- DueDilligence 3y ago[dead]
- laomai 3y agoI don’t understand why anyone is going to Threads at all. I mean, post Drop Facebook and all, why would you go back into the Zucks social arms?
- gremlinsinc 3y agoBecause even Zucks FB empire isn't as toxic and shittified (yet) as Twitter and Reddit have become. Plus, Zuck ate cake last year with metaverse, and FB has redeemed themselves slightly with open source ai. Elon on the other hand is an egotistical billionaire that thinks the only way he can go is up, so it's nice to see people with big egos fail, even just a little. Hopefully Spez is next.