Wow what a surprise
I wouldn’t be surprised if users of most new apps with a lot of hype follow this trend. Everyone jumps in at first, as hype dies a lot of users stop visiting, and after that is when # of daily users stabilizes and begins the organic growth. We are still in the hype dying phase, transitioning to normal growth.
For that reason, I dont put much weight in headlines like this. It will take several more months or a year to really make a conclusion on whether the app is a success or failure.
Exactly like any new game released on Steam. Massive uptake by users but it quickly peaks and dies down. Almost every time.
I feel as though many of the new users were just squatting the usernames so they could sell t hem(ie someone takes mrbeast so they could sell it to the real mr beast)
You have to have an instagram account in order to have a threads account - it’s how you log in. I think whatever your Instagram handle is becomes your threads handle, or it’s saved for you.
I wanted to see what it was like so I created a new Instagram account (not linked to any of my real personal info) and then a new threads account. I had a look for a couple of days and decided it was dogshit so I deleted both. I suspect an awful lot of people did exactly that.
It is quite normal for any business to lose customers after everyone try’s it out. This is being framed negatively, but having 50m users after only a few weeks is amazing. And I say this as someone that refuses to use FB.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mr Zuckerberg - who made the comments in a call to employees, heard by the Reuters news agency - described the situation as “normal” and said he anticipated retention to improve as new features were added to the app.
The company’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, told staff it was now focused on adding more “retention-driving hooks” to draw people back to the platform.
Mr Zuckerberg also updated employees on the company’s enormous bet on a yet-to-be-created virtual reality world, called the Metaverse.
That prediction may intensify concerns that Meta has dedicated too much time and money to the Metaverse - its Reality Labs division, which produces VR headsets and other products, has racked up multi-billion dollar losses.
Mr Zuckerberg also addressed one other headline-making issue - his proposed cage fight with fellow tech titan Elon Musk.
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I think Facebook and Instagram users had no need to use Twitter anyway, so its alternative doesn’t fill any need.
Yeah, I’m really not sure how this replaces the functionality of Facebook and Instagram. If anything, it’s more limiting.
If their fediverse plan goes according to plan (did I just rhyme that?), then I might see some more potential in using Threads. Maybe I can also get rid of my Mastodon account because I literally don’t use it anymore (I can’t get rid of my Threads account without also getting rid of my Instagram account. It’s both or nothing)
A different half than the half lost weeks ago?
Threads is enacting Zeno’s dichotomy in real time, but with users instead of distances
Another half.
Threads use is down to about 6 minutes a day — plummeting from 21 minutes when it first launched. (Per user/per day)
Edit: For perspective, Twitter is at 34 mins, Facebook at 30 mins.
I can see that, before I uninstalled it, it barely took 2 minute to open it and see that still only about 3 of the people I followed on Twitter are now on it, and my feed is still full of celebrity nonsense rather than anything interesting.
Lack of tags or a working search feature broke it for me, I use twitter for news not to see quips from influencers I’ve never heard of. I might check it out again when it’s something other than marginally famous internet celebrities screaming into an empty void.
Well I was using it but I got locked out due to living in Germany :/
I got locked out due to living in Germany :/
Germany has good data protections, so blocking German users says a lot about what they do.
It is no different than a Twitter version of Instagram…
Full of celebrities and influences.
And these people has no privacy right at all, they literally sell their life.
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The main issue is that they assumed the rate limit was going to be the dumbest thing Elon was going to do, and they released Threads long before it was actually ready.
This is so fucking true lol
Yeah, I read an article from someone explaining the actual user experience in Threads and it’s abysmal. You try to curate your feed and instead of getting what you expect, you get content from the likes of people your followers followed followed and are left wondering who the hell everyone is. It’s far from the type of setup you get on Instagram.
With that said, Threads had lost half its users ages ago. This headline is sensational, and the platform could easily recover. I don’t want to give it much weight.
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere on Lemmy, but I follow a ton of artists on the former birdsite, and almost all of them ended up flocking to Threads and Bluesky. I created a Threads account to see what all the hype was about, and it is a very half-baked experience. Ignoring all the privacy concerns, the whole thing is very unfinished. Like you said, the feed is full of people I don’t even know or follow and I have to chase down my friends to see their posts. The lack of hashtags is a problem too, and since it’s not available in the EU, that rules out one of my best friends as well as many of her other friends.
I don’t know if it will recover or not, but there’s the old saying, “You only get one chance to make a first impression.”
I love how everyone still calls them Facebook. It’s the simple things.
Lol the tweet I found this article from referred to it as Meta. nah.
Yeah but you posted it as Facebook. You’re doing good.
I like how you still call it a tweet. I hope tweet, tweeting and twitter remain the lexicon for X forever.
Twitter and tweeting where such well established and creative words, which set Twitter apart. I loved the analogy to birds. And Elon just throws all of that away…
You can still toot on Mastodon at least
Loxodon flatulence best flatulence
Tweet and Retweet are now Post and Repost 😭
More like eXcrete, and eXhibit.
It’s just mindboggling. I never even used Twitter and I’m annoyed about it.
I X’ed about it last night.
No no, let it change. If “””X””” loses the actually marketable and popular terminology it’s all downhill from there (like, even more than now)
This highlights how deep the BS surrounding Musk has burrowed into the media scape. They invariably refer to his companies as “Elon Musks Tesla” or “Elon Musks Twitter” and so on. Where other billionaire’s (for the most part) avoid the limelight and their companies stand seperate to their idiotic personal choices.
I say “Elon Musk’s Twitter” like would I say “Joel Schumacher’s Batman” — to identify it as the worst version of the thing.
Here’s his prequels
Elon Musks failed Solar City
Elon Musks failed Boring Company
Elon Musks failed Hyperloop
Just a few more failures away from qualifying to be president of the USA.
Unfortunately Boring and the hyperloop were wins for him. The goal was to get cities to continue using cars.
Boring and Hyperloop were successful, they were meant to divert local governments from pursuing viable public transportation projects.
I am Elon Musk’s throbbing need for attention.
“Fucker’s settin’ up franchises”
His name is X Æ A-12 Paulsen
Nothing makes me happier than deadnaming a corporation
🍗 (The Bird Formerly Known As Twitter)
I dont care how long it has been or how persistent you are. It’s fucking Comcast Xfinity sounds like the subtitle to a terrible Sci-fi movie from the 80s
“You’ll always be Union Carbide to me”
the local telephone service here has seen several owners and even more name changes in the last couple decades. i still call it by the company name it had in the 90s.
Stadiums get like too.
Going to catch the game at the T-Moble Samsung SL17 this weekend?
Uhh
Just like X will never replace Twitter. That was a weird rebranding tbh. Meta at least makes some sense.
That’s because Zuckerberg is actually a smart guy. He may be a prick and an asshole and possibly not human, but you really can’t deny he is smart.
Musk is an immature idiot with money.
Meta lost $40 billion in Metaverse. I wouldn’t call that smart. Facebook rebranding kept Facebook as a sub product of Meta. Elon should have done the same with Twitter by keeping Twitter as a product under X.
Threads never had enough substance for me to keep using it, half of Threads was just people subtly begging for followers, and the other half was corporate accounts making the same #relatable content that the did on
TwitterXPlenty of cute animals though.
Isn’t half still like 50 million users? It’s not nothing
Engagement is down to 6 minutes per user per day down from 21 minutes at launch.
For perspective Twitter is at 34.8 minutes per user per day.
I wonder what Lemmy is…
Lemmy isn’t here to sell ads so I hope we never have to find out.
Username checks out ^(sorry for the redditism 🙈)
Me too, I looked around but it doesn’t seem like lemmy tracks that metric, or if they do they haven’t released it, the best I found was a posts per hour graph from 2 months ago.
I am definitely bumping that stat up singlehandedly by an unhealthy amount.
Yeah, I don’t get these articles. Most users don’t stick around on a platform, but if enough do and form a critical mass, it’ll succeed.
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Those users who dropped $100 for Sync should at least stick around:
Kinda. Lemmy doesn’t have anywhere near 50 million users, but the thousands we do have is enough to keep the community churning away.
Plus the bots help. Bots posting things from news organizations and taking from Reddit help this place have content.
I’m not a fan of the bots - they spam the same link across a bunch of communities.
I’d much prefer real engagement, but I can block them, so that’s fine, I guess.
I am here for it!
