What is your first impression of Meta's Threads? Is it better than Twitter and other alternatives? Why, or why not, do you think?
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I think that Threads has a couple of choices. It can adhere to Instagram in which case the user base will be smaller but richer and very curated. It can try to expand in which case it will face issues similar to Twitter. If Threads wants to grow well they could just merge users from its other platforms, i.e. Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. This would the "Google" strategy, so named because its what Google did with Google plus. This was viewed as "forced" way to grow its social network and people didn't like it. Ultimately Google+ just quietly went away.
When it comes to Threads, we've seen a lot of growth at the start and then things have fizzled out. The issue is whether Facebook has enough patience to grow Threads. Even if Threads has 50M committed users, I don't think that it will be viewed as a success. To move the needle at Facebook, Threads would have to grow to almost a billion.
I understand why Facebook launched Threads, Twitter was on the ropes and Facebook saw it as a way to just create a new social network/space. It might be easier for Facebook to buy Twitter and return things to normal but I don't think Musk will want to do that. It would be too much of a hit to his ego. I've learned a new term recently, "trophy asset" the value is in owning it not in the financial return that it provides.
Meta Thread is just and incorporation of the existing system from Instagram users compare to twitter that is widely used social media
While “Threads” may have merits, it elicits a sense of déjà vu. Despite its operational efficiency, it comes off as merely a rehash of existing platforms, with a recurring pattern of familiar faces sharing identical content. It makes one question the necessity of having another platform mirroring Twitter. This duplication hardly seems to justify the commitment of our valuable time.
Still very raw, but the engagement has dropped by 50% a week after the rollout so I don't think it is taken down Twitter any time soon.
An exact replica. Meta should concentrate more on Whatsapp and Instagram instead of introducing replicas in the market.