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Right now Threads is to Twitter as Google Plus was to Facebook. I can’t believe they released such a terrible app. I can’t see who I have followed and click on

Right now Threads is to Twitter as Google Plus was to Facebook. I can’t believe they released such a terrible app. I can’t see who I have followed and click on their names to see only the things they posted. Instead I get an endless page of idiotic posts that I care nothing about. I’ve spent more time block people than anything else on Threads. There are 5 or so people who I want to follow and don’t want to see anything else. This is impossible. I didn’t think it would be possible to make a version of Twitter that is much worse than the horrible Twitter app.

3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Threads is not complete yet. It's a MVP, I'm sure they'll round it out in time. As Zuckerberg said, they didn't expect to get that many users so quickly. I know the app has been worked on by 10 people in 6 months. There's also no web version except for a basic thread view. Should a 10 people team have been able to ship something better in 6 months is something we could discuss, but considering also they made it scale to 100M users with few problems (some Instagram downtime I read about), I'd say they're on the right path.
- synetic 3y ago
  I think the real issue is that they only had 10 people working on it. I stand by my assertion that Threads is to Twitter what Google Plus was to Facebook. Google Plus showed that people wanted out of Facebook and Google screwed up the implementation. It appears this is the case with Twitter and Threads. I don’t care how impressive it is that a 10 person team accomplished what they did. What is even more impressive is how bad of a product that Facebook released to the public.
  - 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
    Maybe. We'll have more clarity when we see what Threads looks like in 3 months.
  - sidibe 3y ago
    I feel like your analysis of Facebook and Google Plus is backwards, and people were OK with Google Plus implementation but no one cared to get off Facebook at the time. Google Plus was always a little dead for non-tech crowd, it didn't get big enough to where your friends were using it regularly. People's complaints about Google Plus weren't about the service itself but that it was integrated all over Google properties Threads implemented an MVP while Twitter is shedding users who haven't decided where to go as fast as it can
    - synetic 3y ago
      My memory is that people wanted to sign up for Google Plus but the real names policy and that it was invite only to begin with killed it. People wanted a reason to leave Facebook. My memory could be wrong though.

3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago

Threads is not complete yet. It's a MVP, I'm sure they'll round it out in time. As Zuckerberg said, they didn't expect to get that many users so quickly. I know the app has been worked on by 10 people in 6 months. There's also no web version except for a basic thread view. Should a 10 people team have been able to ship something better in 6 months is something we could discuss, but considering also they made it scale to 100M users with few problems (some Instagram downtime I read about), I'd say they're on the right path.

synetic 3y ago
I think the real issue is that they only had 10 people working on it. I stand by my assertion that Threads is to Twitter what Google Plus was to Facebook. Google Plus showed that people wanted out of Facebook and Google screwed up the implementation. It appears this is the case with Twitter and Threads. I don’t care how impressive it is that a 10 person team accomplished what they did. What is even more impressive is how bad of a product that Facebook released to the public.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  Maybe. We'll have more clarity when we see what Threads looks like in 3 months.
- sidibe 3y ago
  I feel like your analysis of Facebook and Google Plus is backwards, and people were OK with Google Plus implementation but no one cared to get off Facebook at the time. Google Plus was always a little dead for non-tech crowd, it didn't get big enough to where your friends were using it regularly. People's complaints about Google Plus weren't about the service itself but that it was integrated all over Google properties Threads implemented an MVP while Twitter is shedding users who haven't decided where to go as fast as it can
  - synetic 3y ago
    My memory is that people wanted to sign up for Google Plus but the real names policy and that it was invite only to begin with killed it. People wanted a reason to leave Facebook. My memory could be wrong though.