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> Based on the data from over 14,000 users who migrated to these platforms within the first eight weeks after the launch of Threads That's a very strange time

by lapcat 3y ago

> Based on the data from over 14,000 users who migrated to these platforms within the first eight weeks after the launch of Threads That's a very strange time period to focus on. Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022, and that's when I left. Threads didn't launch until July 2023.

rsynnott 3y ago
Yeah, this makes very little sense. Threads had just had a push; the other two would have been in a fairly steady state of migration. You'd _expect_ very different sorts of users. There probably is an interesting study to be done here, but this probably is not it. Their sentiment/'loyalty' metric in particular seems heavily indexed on things like "twitterExodus", which people are _far_ more likely to be talking about on Threads than on the others at this point, because the others are mostly in a steady state.
andsoitis 3y ago
> That's a very strange time period to focus on. Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022, and that's when I left. Threads didn't launch until July 2023. It seems like a perfectly reasonable time period to pick, because the analysis is about migrating to other systems, like Threads. Also, Threads was famous for a steep initial adoption curve.
- foofie 3y ago
  > Also, Threads was famous for a steep initial adoption curve. Do note that Threads was also not available in Europe when it launched, and I think that only changed a couple of weeks ago.
- lapcat 3y ago
  > It seems like a perfectly reasonable time period to pick, because the analysis is about migrating to other systems, like Threads. I would say that the demographics of people migrating to other systems in December 2022 — most prominently to Mastodon, since neither Bluesky nor Threads was available at the time — was significantly different from those migrating in July 2023. > Also, Threads was famous for a steep initial adoption curve. That's because Threads was pushed on Instagram users. Indeed, there wasn't even a separate way to sign up for Threads.
pixxel 3y ago
> and that's when I left Your virtue signal still shines into the night sky the symbol of a bird. You should update it to an ‘X’ if you insist on shining it in 2024.

by lapcat 3y ago

rsynnott 3y ago

Yeah, this makes very little sense. Threads had just had a push; the other two would have been in a fairly steady state of migration. You'd _expect_ very different sorts of users. There probably is an interesting study to be done here, but this probably is not it. Their sentiment/'loyalty' metric in particular seems heavily indexed on things like "twitterExodus", which people are _far_ more likely to be talking about on Threads than on the others at this point, because the others are mostly in a steady state.

andsoitis 3y ago

> That's a very strange time period to focus on. Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022, and that's when I left. Threads didn't launch until July 2023. It seems like a perfectly reasonable time period to pick, because the analysis is about migrating to other systems, like Threads. Also, Threads was famous for a steep initial adoption curve.

foofie 3y ago
> Also, Threads was famous for a steep initial adoption curve. Do note that Threads was also not available in Europe when it launched, and I think that only changed a couple of weeks ago.
lapcat 3y ago
> It seems like a perfectly reasonable time period to pick, because the analysis is about migrating to other systems, like Threads. I would say that the demographics of people migrating to other systems in December 2022 — most prominently to Mastodon, since neither Bluesky nor Threads was available at the time — was significantly different from those migrating in July 2023. > Also, Threads was famous for a steep initial adoption curve. That's because Threads was pushed on Instagram users. Indeed, there wasn't even a separate way to sign up for Threads.

pixxel 3y ago

> and that's when I left Your virtue signal still shines into the night sky the symbol of a bird. You should update it to an ‘X’ if you insist on shining it in 2024.