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> Copying a very popular product is not a bad idea, and having a lot of capital to back is certainly does help. Copying a very popular product.... that doesn't
by joduplessis 3y ago
> Copying a very popular product is not a bad idea, and having a lot of capital to back is certainly does help.
Copying a very popular product.... that doesn't depend on a social aspect. Copying social products is way different to copying Excel, etc.
- MikusR 3y agoReddit coppied and replaced digg a popular product that depends on social aspect. Excel is still Excel.
- afterburner 3y agoThreads user count immediately completely dwarfed any other Twitter clones. Same with number of active users, which is already half of Twitter's count, according to one article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890592/threads-meta-monthly-users-data-x-twitter https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890592/threads-meta-mon... Even if these numbers are moderately inaccurate, Threads is still a smashing success given the time frame. The copying seems to have gone very well. Don't forget they were piggy backing off their own successful social media app, Instagram.