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Hasn’t Twitter moved on to becoming the everything app like WeChat for video like YouTube? Does Threads have to compete with Twitter for users or advertisers?
by fundad 3y ago
Hasn’t Twitter moved on to becoming the everything app like WeChat for video like YouTube?
Does Threads have to compete with Twitter for users or advertisers? I think people want to promote their YouTube channel and Threads has a lot of first-party tracking data.
- dmoy 3y ago> Hasn’t Twitter moved on to becoming the everything app like WeChat for video like YouTube? I am having difficulty parsing this. What do you mean?
- maxfurman 3y agoI think it's sarcasm
- fundad 3y agoX the everything app. It’s very different from Threads
- dmoy 3y agoYea I got that, and we use WeChat pretty heavily in my household, but the bit about YouTube at the end is what I can't parse
- rsynnott 3y agoIt's one of those awkward cases where it was _probably_ sarcasm (though parseable only to someone who pays way too much attention to this stuff) but might be sincere Musk-cultism. tl;dr - Musk has at various times claimed that he will turn Twitter into a WeChat-esque thing, or into a Youtube competitor. None of this has gone anywhere because, come on, obviously not.
- fundad 3y agoIt’s the largest exit in startup history. How they describe their business is interesting to a hacker like me. Don’t get distracted by their political activism. Threads or even Facebook aren’t really competitors with X Corp businesses. The business model articulated has been video with revenue share and eventually the everything app. YouTube and WeChat are similar examples. I think anyone reading analysis about Threads isn’t much deeper in than I. But I admittedly am too online, I call it the “funny pages.”