Threads is ready to smack down Twitter

[TC Talks]

https://www.threads.net/

Here is Facebook's version of Twitter. We will see if it can attract those that left after Musk unleashed his brilliance. I don't think it will have the same professional cadence as Twitter once was but advertisers are ready to support a competitor. For me, it will be easier to only have Meta to deal with.

Mark Zuckerberg has taken the wraps off Threads, a clone of Twitter designed to lure people turned off by the social network’s changes under owner Elon Musk.

The billionaire social media smackdown is about to get real.

Before Meta’s free text conversation-focused app launched late Wednesday, we had a chance to try it and quiz its makers. We found Meta has some advantages over rivals to turn Threads into a major new hub for online conversations.

Most of all, it arrives with a potential audience of billions who already use Meta’s photo and video-oriented Instagram, which Threads is built on top of. Would-be Twitter rivals Mastodon and Bluesky have yet to grow beyond single-digit millions of users.

But Threads also comes with Meta baggage, including privacy, moderation and algorithmic feed practices that have turned many people off Zuckerberg’s other social networks such as Facebook. For example: From the moment you first log in to Threads, it starts showing you recommended posts from accounts and brands you don’t necessarily follow — or necessarily even care to see.

You’ll need to have an Instagram account to sign up for Threads. Then you can download the Threads app for iOS or Android, or go to Threads directly on the web to set up your account. You’ll use the same name for your Threads account as you do on Instagram.

When you first use the app, you’ll be given the option to automatically follow all of the same accounts you follow on Instagram — or just select some of them. We’re curious to see how this plays out: How much overlap is there between accounts you follow on Instagram for their epic photographs with accounts you want to read for their text or hot takes on politics and TV?

And one other thing to note: At launch, Threads isn’t available in Europe, where the Irish Data Protection Commission recently hit Meta with a record $1.3 billion fine for breaking its privacy rules. The region’s new Digital Markets Act also puts some of the Meta’s data-sharing and privacy practices into question.

[Mega Hertz]

Threads. Movie scared the shit out of me.

[Deleted User 9015]

Threads. Movie scared the shit out of me.

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread title. The ending of that movie just gives you such an empty feeling.

[TC Talks]

Threads. Movie scared the shit out of me.

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread title. The ending of that movie just gives you such an empty feeling.

Kevin Bacon was great in that movie.

[Colonel Flagg]

It's a shame Monkey Ward's is out of business...

Colonel Flagg could use some "new threads"

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It's a shame Monkey Ward's is out of business...

Colonel Flagg could use some "new threads"

At the zoo? How appropriate.

[zzand]

So now we will have two garbage cans instead of one

[ZenithCKLW]

LOL, hopping over from Musk to Zuck. From one cesspool to another cesspool with a special compartment. What a choice.

[bmw]

And already Twitter is threatening to use Meta over IP infringement and for allegedly stealing their trade secrets.

[Deleted User 15924]

Well, according to this article, everyone will be dropping Twitter and using Threads:

https://www.businessinsider.com/metas-t ... usk-2023-7