I love how everyone still calls them Facebook. It’s the simple things.
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”
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 am Elon Musk’s throbbing need for attention.
“Fucker’s settin’ up franchises”
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
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.
Just a few more failures away from qualifying to be president of the USA.
Lol the tweet I found this article from referred to it as Meta. nah.
I like how you still call it a tweet. I hope tweet, tweeting and twitter remain the lexicon for X forever.
Tweet and Retweet are now Post and Repost 😭
It’s just mindboggling. I never even used Twitter and I’m annoyed about it.
More like eXcrete, and eXhibit.
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)
Yeah but you posted it as Facebook. You’re doing good.
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.
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
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.
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.”
This is so fucking true lol
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.
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.
Exactly like any new game released on Steam. Massive uptake by users but it quickly peaks and dies down. Almost every time.
I’m not a fan of Meta, but this is sort of expected behavior for any company. You get a swell of account signups and then people go dormant.
This is just bad tech reporting; the tech press can only write 3 stories:
- This company is a success
- This company is a failure
- Look how much funding this company got
Often you get all three about the same company
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.
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.
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.
Are the other half government bots and fbi agents?
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.
A different half than the half lost weeks ago?
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.
Threads is enacting Zeno’s dichotomy in real time, but with users instead of distances
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.
Would have lost more if it wasn’t tied to Instagram.
Now it simply bots… Like reddit and more and more here…
I was thinking the same thing! Put couple bots and say evet goes perfect!
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