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100 million users in a week appears, based on what I could find, to be about on par with other features Instagram has added over the years. Given that Instagram
by randomdata 3y ago
100 million users in a week appears, based on what I could find, to be about on par with other features Instagram has added over the years. Given that Instagram's user base has grown quite a bit since some of those other features launched, 100 million users of a new feature may actually be a poor showing, comparatively.
Indeed, Twitter is as vulnerable as Snapchat was when Stories launched, and Twitch when IGTV launched, and TikTok when Reels launched. But how vulnerable is that, really? In fact, I was just thinking about how much better Twitter's content has become lately. Perhaps Threads has served to relieve Twitter of the dregs that was bringing it down?
- 16bitvoid 3y agoI'm not sure it's really comparable to instagram "features". - requires a separate app - no desktop site yet - available in a limited number of countries (e.g., most of Europe does not have access yet)
- randomdata 3y agoThose hurdles no doubt explain its relatively poor showing, but it remains that it is just another Instagram feature, no matter how poorly implemented the launch was. I'm sure all the above (Threads, Stories, Reels, etc.) took from the services they were intended to copy, but how significant is that in the grand scheme of things?