I actually find it funny that Zuckerberg is now a good guy and people want to support his product
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What a silly selling point.
Some friends were worried about this too, but I see it as a non-issue. If you don’t like Threads just don’t use it. No need to delete your account.
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It was a joke. Geez.
I know you were joking, but perhaps your friend wasn’t, and I’m sure there is a large group of people in the U.S. that think the same way.
No my friend was definitely joking. I thought that was pretty obvious, but I guess it bypassed some people.
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People flocked from Twitter expressly because of Musk. Why wouldn’t people flock to Threads to spite him? It only makes sense.
Instagram is actually my fav SM platform. I like that the people I choose to follow on Insta will automatically be on Threads (if they sign up). Initial observations seem to be that if you’re a SM influencer, you jumped on the bandwagon right away. I’m seeing quite a bit of posting. Some influencers are saying it’s such a pleasure to NOT always have to associate a visual with a post - they can use Threads for just simply text comments/info. I imagine for them though it’s a cumbersome addition - another place to post to think about. But yes, maybe it becomes a sub in for another SM venue.
It was a joke. Let it go. I thought people talking about Threads might find it funny.
(BTW, I don’t think you are using those words correctly. There is no “flocked from” and your comment doesn’t make sense.)
Just joined. My writing community is migrating over there, so it makes sense to me. I have found Twitter to be very useful in the past, but the accretion of junk there just makes it more and more impossible to use. It’s a shame because previously it worked very well, much more simple and streamlined than most social media. Hopefully Threads can be that.
And yeah, not a huge fan of Zuck, think he could run FB much better, but he’s not an active racist and hate-encourager as Elon right now.
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It’s the same thing as consumers moving away from Budweiser, because of the advertisement featuring Dylan Mulvaney.
I see absolutely nothing silly or wrong about moving from a platform that promotes hate speech and is owned by a racist (Musk). And Twitter seems to be combusting right in front of our eyes.
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I don’t think anyone views Zuck as a good guy, but at least he’s merely driven by old-fashion greed and runs his business as a business.
I’ll refrain from describing what appears to be driving Musk and how he’s running Twitter as it would get my post deleted. But he’s directly opposed to many of my personal values so I’m not supporting any of his businesses, Tesla or Twitter.
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Which is silly.
Protesting a product and/or person with your pocketbook isn’t silly to me. BTW, there were protests of Budweiser from both sides of the debate/issue.
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I haven’t signed up although I do have an Instagram account. 22 year old son signed up and said a number of his friends have. He says he uses twitter to follow scientific news - “academic Twitter” is what he calls it. Maybe that is a thing that I’m just not familiar with. He was wondering how many of the Twitter accounts he follows would go to Threads, wondering if the accounts holders would want to create an Instagram account. That’s my anecdotal information about Threads as of now from our discussion today.
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Like others, I use Twitter differently than I use IG. For me, Twitter is for quick, as it happens, news updates. I opened a Threads account and followed a couple of entities that I follow on Twitter. If TPTB at Threads don’t mess with sorting what I see and when I see it, I’ll use it more.
Regarding anonymity, you are allowed to have more than one FB/IG/Twitter account. If my IG were my real name, I would open a second IG account with a fake name and use that for Threads.
Edit: I just checked in on my Threads account and there are a ton of posts from people I don’t know. I can block them, but that is a pain. Looks like Threads maybe a no go for me.
That’s weird I don’t think that has happened at all for me .
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Me neither. So far.
I think that’s a thing a lot of casual users don’t really see–that Twitter was whatever you wanted to make it. Most of my Twitter was Writer Twitter. I also curated for myself the commentators I liked on my favorite sports team, and followed some political Twitter, but only, again, what I chose. There are/were so many different Twitters. I remember a few years ago, people would refer to Black Twitter, and others would think that was a whole other platform–rather than that it was a community that existed within the big whole.
I hope that Threads can replicate this system of overlapping worlds, and we can find the Threads that work for us. Without the ugliness, and just incompetent wonkiness, that has accreted to Twitter since, well, you know.
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I was seeing a bunch of posts from Paris Hilton and Kylie Jenner or one of them . I blocked that account so fast I don’t know which one it was.
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