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I've looked into it, it's mostly from Asia and South America. It's not surprising, Facebook is big there so they probably use their reach with the big app to pu

by orwin 1y ago

I've looked into it, it's mostly from Asia and South America. It's not surprising, Facebook is big there so they probably use their reach with the big app to push their own twitter clone. I won't be surprised if thread userbase grow over twitter user base in the next year, but their ad revenues will still lag behind as a North american or EU user is "worth" more (a lot more if from the US) for advertisers.

numpad0 1y ago
[1]: name tfic% pop pop% B/D Taiwan 0.1056 23112793 0.0028 37.61x Japan 0.0822 123103479 0.0150 5.50x Vietnam 0.0413 101598527 0.0123 3.35x USA 0.0367 347275807 0.0422 0.87x Brazil 0.0229 212812405 0.0259 0.89x Others 0.7112 7423710059 0.9019 0.79x (total) 0.9999 8231613070 1.0000 1.00x Looks like, Taiwan took it, maybe Japan too. I'm guessing that the moral of the story is, social media cannot be multilingual/multinational. Either one culture dominates, or the system don't work. 1: https://www.similarweb.com/website/threads.net/#geography https://www.similarweb.com/website/threads.net/#geography edit: edited to add column C, D, E from [2]; Column E, B/D, is traffic divided by population count as share of world's, which I think should indicate how much differences in popularity there is. 2: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...
- superb_dev 1y ago
  Why is that the moral?
  - numpad0 1y ago
    Added columns C, D, E to the parent comment to address this - the original chart looked as if its popularity is evenly distributed across nations, but after normalizing by population, it's a lot more clear that it hit a jackpot in Taiwan, and nothing is happening anywhere else. It's a pattern that you'll notice after a while. US uses Messenger, EU uses WhatsApp, Japan uses LINE, and Korea uses KakaoTalk. Twitter is still like 30% American and 20% Japanese, Facebook is 30% Indian and 20% American, etc. Functional differences between those competing services are trivial, so there shouldn't be reasons any of those apps cannot dominate the world completely in each field and be multilingual and massively multi-national, yet that just don't happen somehow.

by orwin 1y ago

numpad0 1y ago

[1]: name tfic% pop pop% B/D Taiwan 0.1056 23112793 0.0028 37.61x Japan 0.0822 123103479 0.0150 5.50x Vietnam 0.0413 101598527 0.0123 3.35x USA 0.0367 347275807 0.0422 0.87x Brazil 0.0229 212812405 0.0259 0.89x Others 0.7112 7423710059 0.9019 0.79x (total) 0.9999 8231613070 1.0000 1.00x Looks like, Taiwan took it, maybe Japan too. I'm guessing that the moral of the story is, social media cannot be multilingual/multinational. Either one culture dominates, or the system don't work. 1: https://www.similarweb.com/website/threads.net/#geography https://www.similarweb.com/website/threads.net/#geography edit: edited to add column C, D, E from [2]; Column E, B/D, is traffic divided by population count as share of world's, which I think should indicate how much differences in popularity there is. 2: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...

superb_dev 1y ago
Why is that the moral?
- numpad0 1y ago
  Added columns C, D, E to the parent comment to address this - the original chart looked as if its popularity is evenly distributed across nations, but after normalizing by population, it's a lot more clear that it hit a jackpot in Taiwan, and nothing is happening anywhere else. It's a pattern that you'll notice after a while. US uses Messenger, EU uses WhatsApp, Japan uses LINE, and Korea uses KakaoTalk. Twitter is still like 30% American and 20% Japanese, Facebook is 30% Indian and 20% American, etc. Functional differences between those competing services are trivial, so there shouldn't be reasons any of those apps cannot dominate the world completely in each field and be multilingual and massively multi-national, yet that just don't happen somehow.