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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter is where all drama happens.

It doesn't matter that some people will register an account on Threads and even use it as their primary platform.

They will still come to Twitter to see what "them" are doing.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What's twitter!? Do you mean X? πŸ˜‰

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

X what? Xvideos? Xxx something? What's x? Ex? Ex Twitter? I am out of the loop. Please explain. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ex, Exx and Exxy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

X

( Ν‘Β° ΝœΚ– Ν‘Β°)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Musky boi changed twitters name to x.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X? The kiddie porn platform?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, that was a mistake. The guy said he didn't and Elon said nobody saw it and besides that wouldn't happen on such an awesome platform. /s

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I believe Elon didn't see it. Why else would he want to keep the account up? So he could go look at the pics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I thought it was "ten"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m actually surprised no one has pointed out the design flaw in the logo. It looks like a close window x button on browsers, especially iOS Safari. I keep wanting to close out of the window by clicking on it instead of the smaller other x.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s been pointed out. Lots.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You basically asked why no one mentioned it looks like a close icon and this person informed you that it had been mentioned a lot. What are you saying thanks with a question mark as if what you brought up wasn't answered?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Elon is a brilliant man isn't he.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The website that used to be a hamster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hamster dance?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I meant "the artist formerly known as Prince". 😎

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I am not surprised. A good deal of it was probably driven by fear of missing out.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can imagine that a bunch of those are astroturfing usernames. Businesses, celebrities and the like have a big deal of value in their online identity.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Impersonating celebrities? On the Internet? Who would do such a thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I would, but not you. I'll say it again: You were great in that thing!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You are going to have to be more specific, because I'm great in everything. 😊

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

On general, yes, however threads uses your Instagram username. I think it's just initial excitement to try something new and people getting on the anti - X / twitter / Elon train and then realising that the network effect has way more pull

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Lots of things come in peaks and troughs. They've still got a pretty impressive userbase considering they only just started.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe because they didn't "sign-up". I read somewhere that Meta just created accounts for all Instagram users automatically

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not defending meta, but that wouldn’t add up with the amount of activity that immediately followed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They announced that all Instagram users had a shadow account. I can't remember if they were saying it was a mistake or not but it did happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I believe Instagram usernames are reserved on Threads to ensure people can keep the same handle on both networks, but the users aren’t automatically signed up with a profile.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

even if that were true - it wouldn't make sense. That would would a) create a huge disparity between signups and DAU b) they did make the signup process very frictionless which would explain the signups better and c) I believe it threads signups were in the millions whereas Instagram has over 1B accounts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it seemed like turning on an additional function for Instagram to me. it's still bloated with the same junk as you'd expect.

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