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Threads will be alright in the end. They launched it at a very opportune time when Twitter was having massive technical issues. That was enough to get million

• spansoa 3y ago
  And when it hits the E.U market Threads will gain more popularity. If they can just sort out the 'privacy problem' they apparently have. I don't understand the delay here. FB & Insta already has E.U people's data.
  • curiousllama 3y ago
    If I understand correctly, the DMA says you can’t leverage one social network to support another (ie, you can’t drive Threads signups via the IG Network). Meta chose quick growth over European users.
• dgrin91 3y ago
  > The next time Twitter goes down, and it will any day now People have been saying this since the day Elon took over... but has it really gone down that much? More than other tech products? E.g. how many outages have the big cloud providers had in the last year? When I hear people say 'any day now' it reads like they are looking for any excuse to say 'mars man bad'.
  • AlexandrB 3y ago
    I don't know about outages, but Twitter's website has become completely erratic for me. Sometime it will load replies, sometimes it won't. Sometimes it will login-wall content, sometimes it won't. Sometimes I just get an error page. Clicking on a Twitter link today is like rolling the dice on whether you'll actually see anything or not.
    • bottlepalm 3y ago
      You should check your internet connection. It's much more likely that it's you who are having problems.
  • atorodius 3y ago
    I think the parent was referring to this rather massive and long outage very recently: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/01/tech/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/01/tech/twitter-rate-limit-excee... rather than cloud providers it would probably be more useful to compare to eg Instagram or TikTok
    • hcurtiss 3y ago
      I wouldn't style that an outage. I'm not sure what regular users that affected, but it could not have been very many.
      • etchalon 3y ago
        The problem is that it was high-volume users who were impacted. And high-volume users are who create content for the site.
• pessimizer 3y ago
  Everything that people were complaining about on Twitter is also true of Threads, other than that Musk doesn't own Threads. The solution to DMs being limited or filtered on Twitter can't be to move to a platform without DMs at all. Various trolls are already partying on Threads, and targeting people that used to get them banned on Twitter. Commercial people and celebrities are seeing no engagement. Also, the idea that Threads will be better than Twitter is simply a promise based on nothing. The concept I heard is that they were going to mod out politics, but that's a) impossible at scale, ask China, and b) Facebook couldn't care less about politics; the reason they censored anything other than nipples was by government demand, and Facebook has promised to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee that it was hiding documents from until a few days ago under pain of contempt of Congress, personally, against Zuckerberg. I don't think he's hero enough to go to prison for the sake of this administration, especially since he started censoring for the last administration. He doesn't care about the politics at all, so who would he be going to prison on behalf of? Movement Democrats will certainly make him a hero, like Cheney, Comey, etc., but what will that get him if the Democrats go down in the next general? All this is to say is that he's motivated to govern Threads with a light touch.
• vitorgrs 3y ago
  That's exactly how Telegram growth. WhatsApp always had outages and some problems. With every problem, people used Telegram - and Telegram was better. That's how Telegram have 700 million active users.
  • baby 3y ago
    As someone who prefers the security benefits of whatsapp, I gotta say telegram’s user experience is much better