10 Million users in the first seven hours meta the company behind Facebook and Instagram has just declared war on Twitter with their new app threads and this is the most fascinating exciting and terrifying thing happening on social media right now.
So, first of all do you even think threads has got a chance of becoming mainstream well let’s put it this way if your 100k follower on your threads is getting more engagement than your 1.8 million follower account on Twitter and this is not a normal for 100k follower account on any platform but the excitement levels for this new app they are not just high they are unlike anything that you have ever seen before.
But Why? because it’s in the right place at the right time all you’ve seen on Twitter these past few months that Twitter has dialed up the ads you’ll see one like every five posts you’ve got so many bot accounts and just inappropriate accounts parading around without getting flagged. Twitter charges people to be verified now so you literally end up in situations where you’ve got fake account of any celebrity which is paid to be verified.
What does it mean to be verified they’ve just limited the number of tweets that you can view in a day again unless you pay to increase that limit now it looks like a no longer homely platform.
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Threads is basically designed to be opposite of the things mentioned above meaning by to capitalize on this downward spiral sentiments that lots of people have towards Twitter meta has made sure that they have launched with zero ads that they’re not even thinking about monetization until the app reaches a billion users that is two times what Twitter is they’ve made sure that everyone needs to have an Instagram account before they can register.
It has done a lot to reduce the level of Bot activity meaning by you can see as many posts as you want per day plus it’s linked to your Instagram account you don’t pay for verification it carries over from your Instagram to your threads account for free instantly and the best part of it is that so do your followers.
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How threads has managed to get this unexpected Buzz about it?
It’s because it’s managed to do one thing that’s really really hard for a new platform to do.
So anytime one about your Instagram followers signs up for Threads they’re following you already by default.
It gives creators a massive surge in excitement and therefore instant incentive to start posting unique content for those people.
 All of this is making threads feel like this new Haven like a fresh start.
It’s a really good timing and brain marketing by company like Facebook as they have also figured out how to give people on the outside of a major fear of missing out.
Here, you actually get numbered based on how quickly you register for a threads account it literally like getting ranked in a race.
The point is whatever you get given that is your number permanently so there’s a rush to be in the first million then there’s a rush to be in the first 10 million and it goes on like this.
When you sign up it lets you preemptively add people for when they join.Â
Your Instagram followers automatically get added to your threads account that only actually happens if you’ve already registered so your incentive is basically to hurry up to register your account as faster as you possibly can to make sure that you’re getting as many of those automatic follows as possible.
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Threads is not any type of gift to mankind it’s missing features it’s missing a lot of key features that you really need for an app like this like trending topics for example.
The thing That actually makes X (Twitter) different to other platforms is that it’s news first you go on there as well as to argue with people over the Internet to learn about what’s happening with the world and what people think about it?
There is also a Data Problem if you are aware of it then you must have noticed that this app is not available in the (EU) European Union because the EU has very strict data sharing policies that this does not yet comply with.
Besides, the app itself is kind of nice it’s exactly what you would expect it to be it’s like X.
There is zero doubt that the designers studied Twitter and consciously made this like it with some design elements of Instagram.
Thread is already what people call a string of messages so it’s fitting.
It’s simple you’ve got your news feed which is a combination of both people you follow and those you don’t you can search for new people to follow here.
You can write a thread it’s easy on the eyes it seems to run well be smooth and pretty bug free it’s in offensive which actually you can say for Twitter right now.
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COULD THREADS KILL X (TWITTER)?: facebook marketplace
Very possibly yes. It sounds like a monumental feat Twitter’s approaching 500 million users but you must remember Instagram has 2.35 billion.
Even though threads is very blatantly a direct copy that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a higher ceiling.
If you look at Instagram, Instagram today is not at all what it originally set out to be it started out as this genuinely unique way to keep in touch with your friends via photos.
If you see on your feed it is no longer your friends or anyone you actually care about it’s just an algorithm designed to serve you purposeless videos in such a way that you can’t look away and eventually lose track of time.
if we talk about Facebook meta’s other Social media app its actually reading your mind you can’t scroll past two posts without seeing an add .
Then you get a suggested for you post which is actually nothing related to you. There’s a permanent sponsor tab on the side which is filled with targeted ads tons of inappropriate content.
This is essentially what meta’s vision of a successful product is. Meta’s entire business model is making money from profiling their users tracking their activity to sell their eyeballs to advertisers.
When you sign up to threads look at all the stuff you have to agree this is the reason why threads is not up and running in EU yet this app even wants access to your sensitive health data.
If you sign up to threads there’s no way of not agreeing to every bit of this data sharing.
One main Clause of this is that says you can’t close your thread account after opening it unless you also close your Instagram account.
In the end it’s the users that make these platforms what they are so if we decide if we wants to use this as a positive force then that will automatically make it a better place to be.
