> Somebody called it out on HN already that Twitter is going away because of Threads
It seems severely early to say this especially when threads is such a barebones and incredibly unwieldy experience that seems to have been rushed out to capitalise on twitter's fumbles.
There's no "Following" timeline at all, you cannot mute accounts that you do not follow (only block), the video player is somehow worse than Instagram's, the UX is buggy and kind of awful, the algorithmic feed is desperately trying to focus on your particular region rather than even try to attempt your interests, things are tightly coupled with your Instagram profile and so on. This is also not even going into the nightmare that are the privacy settings which will probably prevent an EU launch for quite some time.
It feels to me that the "low" barrier of entry of simply having an Instagram account is enough to sign up for this which makes joining much more low effort since most people interested in this already had one. I'm not sure this is going to kill twitter so easily. Unless their velocity of improvements is significantly improved and they take the right feedback, this is probably going to be a flash in the pan.
Though I will say, if they somehow bring Japanese Twitter over to Threads by courting J-Pop artists, vtubers, mangaka etc, that will truly be the death knell for twitter.
It seems severely early to say this especially when threads is such a barebones and incredibly unwieldy experience that seems to have been rushed out to capitalise on twitter's fumbles.
There's no "Following" timeline at all, you cannot mute accounts that you do not follow (only block), the video player is somehow worse than Instagram's, the UX is buggy and kind of awful, the algorithmic feed is desperately trying to focus on your particular region rather than even try to attempt your interests, things are tightly coupled with your Instagram profile and so on. This is also not even going into the nightmare that are the privacy settings which will probably prevent an EU launch for quite some time.
It feels to me that the "low" barrier of entry of simply having an Instagram account is enough to sign up for this which makes joining much more low effort since most people interested in this already had one. I'm not sure this is going to kill twitter so easily. Unless their velocity of improvements is significantly improved and they take the right feedback, this is probably going to be a flash in the pan.
Though I will say, if they somehow bring Japanese Twitter over to Threads by courting J-Pop artists, vtubers, mangaka etc, that will truly be the death knell for twitter.