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Turns out, Meta's Threads is good for breaking news
- seydor 3y agofake it and pretend you made it
- jdminhbg 3y agoThe article doesn’t even try to make the case for the headline or lead, what a bizarre piece. The OpenAI drama is the biggest case for Twitter supremacy in months.
- wnevets 3y ago> The OpenAI drama is the biggest case for Twitter supremacy in months. How so? Any meaningful post from the openai (or whoever) twitter account were immediately posted to threads. A lot of tech press were posting directly to threads instead of twitter, for example kara swisher.
- jdminhbg 3y agoKara Swisher was also posting to Twitter, but more to the point, all of the major players and commentators were on Twitter. Greg Brockman's resignation letter was on Twitter. The employees who protested Sam's firing were on Twitter. The (second) interim CEO posted his hiring and resignation on Twitter. Etc.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoOn top of that Ilya, Sam, Mira, PG, Elon, even fcking Shkreli was doing his trolling on Twitter. Nothing notable happened on Threads.
- wnevets 3y agoI can't see any post on her twitter https://twitter.com/karaswisher https://twitter.com/karaswisher, is this a fake swisher account? I had no problem seeing her post on threads through this entire ordeal.
- jdminhbg 3y agoE.g.: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294?s=42 https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294?s...
- avindroth 3y agoLiterally everything was happening on Twitter. From spaces to “OpenAI is nothing without its people” to heart emojis. Sam and Greg posted their statement there. This is a huge win for Twitter.
- jamespo 3y agoIt's the incumbent, what do you expect? Monetizing that on the other hand...
- jdminhbg 3y agoYeah, it’s never monetized well and I doubt it ever will. Just interesting to see that the converse of monetizing well doesn’t mean that you can get over the hump of relevance in this case.
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago> X, formerly known as Twitter, still won as the more crucial platform. Stopped reading there. What is going on with this piece. Talk about not nailing your headline point at all.
- passwordoops 3y agoThanks, but I'm sticking to Twitter (Screw that, I'm not calling it "X") and HN has proved pretty useful for tech drama, er breaking news
- NoboruWataya 3y agoMatt Levine mentioned in a recent newsletter he would be using Threads more than Twitter from now on. He never tweeted that much so it doesn't really matter, but it's an interesting move given how much he talks about Elon.
- primitivesuave 3y agoThis seems like a native advertising piece. The article's own screenshots of popular Threads posts on the OpenAI story have less than 1% of the engagement of similar posts on Twitter/X, so it's a bit meaningless to point to these as evidence that Threads is "up for the task" of handling a major news event.
- hospitalJail 3y agoGretchen stop trying to make "threads" happen.
- renewiltord 3y agoEverything happened on Twitter/X. This is just hopeful nonsense advertising.
- mycpuorg 3y ago"Turns out, we think you are all dumb."
- whalesalad 3y agoThreads is an arguably better experience than X, but no one is using it.
- tyjen 3y agoThis article is dubious.
- Animats 3y agoSo how's it doing right now? The big story right now is that someone tried to use a car to ram the immigration checkpoint into Canada at the Rainbow Bridge near Niagara Falls. The car blew up. Two people in the car dead, no other casualties. Press coverage is terrible. The clickbait headline systems are producing fact-free headlines, such as "FBI investigating explosion at US-Canadian border". There is, inevitably, surveillance camera imagery. But it's not linked on CNN. Just talking heads and useless pictures of cops milling around the aftermath. Fox at least has "NY vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge border crossing, two dead." NBC News is paywalled. The New York Daily News, which is historically good at violent crime coverage, has a decent story. The US anti-terrorism people are freaking out over this, closing border crossings, cancelling flights, and similar security theater. So what does Meta Threads have to say?
- pasttense01 3y agoThe other question is how often do you need to hear about "breaking news" immediately? For me the answer is almost never. Glancing at various news media websites occasionally is more than adequate for me.