Can Threads actually KILL Twitter?

10 million users in the first seven hours goal, the company behind Facebook and Instagram just declared war on Twitter with its new app

threads

and this is the most fascinating, exciting and terrifying thing happening on social media right now moment, so do I even think about

threads

in the first place? has a chance of becoming mainstream, well let's put it this way right now, my account of 60,000 followers on threads is getting more engagement than my account of 1.7 million followers on Twitter. I mean, look at this, this is not normal for an account with 60,000 followers on any platform. but still, the excitement levels for this new app are not only high, they are unlike anything I have ever seen before, but why?

Because you are in the right place at the right time. All I've seen on Twitter these past few months is oh! I hate this app now or Elon Musk has ruined this app or why Twitter is the place where everything needs to be and there are reasons for that. I mean, Twitter has increased ads, you'll see one like every five posts you have. so many bot accounts and just inappropriate accounts parading around without being flagged. I mean, Twitter charges people now to be verified, so you literally end up in situations where you have a fake Elon Musk account that gets paid to be verified, at which point what does it do?

That is, to be verified, they have simply limited the number of tweets you can see in a day again unless you pay to increase that limit. For me, I don't feel like it's a home platform anymore as I just don't feel like I belong. there and so the threads are basically designed to be the opposite of that and to capitalize on this downward spiral feeling that many people have towards Twitter meta has made sure to have launched without ads they are not even thinking about monetization until the app reaches a thousand million users, this is what Zuckerberg says, which is a little crazy because if it reaches a billion users, that's already double what Twitter is.

They have made sure that everyone must have an Instagram account before they can sign up. which has done a lot to reduce the level of Bot activity and I mean we are being spoiled. I mean, you can see as many posts as you want per day, plus since it's linked to your Instagram account, you don't pay for the verification that goes into it. from your Instagram to your threads account for free and instantly, and the best part is that your followers know it too. You know how Threads managed to generate this unexpected buzz about it, it's because they managed to do the one thing that's really difficult for them. a new platform to do and that is to make it look like everyone is already there, so whenever one of your Instagram followers signs up for Threads, they will already be following you by default, giving creators this massive increase in enthusiasm and therefore an instant incentive to start posting unique content to those people, all of this is making the threads feel like New Haven, like a new beginning on Twitter, but where everything is fine in the world and I can't believe I'm saying this except a world where Mark Zuckerberg is the new People's Choice hero, it's a really good time combined with great cerebral marketing and then the other side of this coin is that they've also discovered how to give people outside the biggest fear of missing out on something you

actually

get. numbered based on how quickly you sign up for a thread count literally like being ranked in a race so I'm around number 12 million probably won't make it on my resume but the point is whatever that you get, that's your number permanently, so there was a rush to be in the first million, then there's a rush to be in the first 10 million now, I guess there's a rush to be in the first hundred million and then when you sign up , it allows you to pre-emptively add people for when they join as if saying they're joining of course it's just that you're ahead of the game by being there before them but you also know I was saying that your Instagram followers are automatically added to your thread count, yeah, well that only happens if you.

You've already registered, so your incentive is basically to hurry up and register your account as quickly as possible to ensure you get as many automatic followers as possible, as in my case, I was kicking myself when I woke up this morning. to the chaos that was going on and I realized that if I simply set up my thread count eight hours earlier, before I went to sleep, I would have woken up 50,000 more followers who were already there, make no mistake, threads are not a gift of God for Humanity, it's missing features, it's missing a lot of key features that you really need for an app like this, like trending topics for example, what really makes Twitter different from other platforms is that the first thing you enter are the news and also discussions. with people over the internet to learn about what's happening in the world and what people think about it, it has to be based on real world events as opposed to Instagram which is more what my friends are doing or at less that's what it used to be.

Right now it's more of a tick tock V 0.5 and there's also a data issue that you may have noticed. You would definitely have noticed it if you live here. This app is not available in the European Union because the EU has very strict data sharing policies. It still doesn't deliver on this and overall it's going to be very difficult for people to have to start over. You know, some people have spent 10+ years on Twitter trying hard to build up that number of followers to the point where, even if all the users you still care about and still care about what you're currently doing move to the threads and your participation remains the same high.

You will feel some type of loss simply by not having that great tracking account that you have. I've spent a lot of time hoarding, but I guess the key message here is that if anyone can do it, they're probably meta. You could say that Twitter has met its match and they have been very open about the fact that this is still a V1. They probably wanted to release the app in a state where it was simple, yes, but stable, and then, one by one , add the extras and add those final countries that haven't arrived yet, plus I have to give you the The app itself is quite nice, it's exactly what you'd expect it to be, it's like Twitter, let's be very clear, there's no doubt that the designers studied Twitter and consciously made this like this, but with some design elements of Instagram it's called okay, I mean. a thread is already what people call a thread so it's appropriate and it also doesn't sound like a joke like Mastodon all I can think of is foreign dinosaurs and it's simple you have your news feed which is a combination of people you follow and those you don't, you can search for new people to follow here, you can write a thread, these are all your notifications, which are very well categorized, although in my experience they don't work at all, since they definitely I have been mentioned. but not according to this tab and then there's you on the far right, this is your profile now, as you can probably tell, it's not very customizable, it's not very fun to look at right now and I wish you could double tap the post so that you like them and that. the interaction buttons were on the other side of the screen there are many ways I would change this but it gets the basics right it is easy on the eyes it seems to work well it is smooth and fairly bug free it is harmless, which is

actually

more than I think you can say for Twitter right now and that's the benefit of getting started and not trying to do everything at once so honestly threads could

kill

Twitter quite possibly yeah it sounds like a monumental feat.

I mean Twitter is approaching 500 million users, but remember Instagram has 2.35 billion and even though the threads are blatantly a direct copy, that doesn't mean it doesn't have a higher ceiling. I mean, Facebook

kill

ed Myspace. Instagram basically killed Snapchat after copying its features and making it better. It is not something new for this meta-company. Do something similar to what is already being done and just force them to take the image. If, by the way, you find this video useful, a subscription to the channel would be awesome, just like threads are trying to overtake Twitter and subscribers. We're trying to one-up Apple to get all the subscribers to help, but hey, this is what worries me about the whole thing.

Look at Instagram. Instagram today is not at all what it originally set out to be. It started out as a genuinely unique way to stay in touch with your friends. through photos, but in the process of continually following where the money is, it's now just another glorified vertical video app, most of what I see on my feed is no longer my friends or anyone I really care about, it's just an algorithm designed to serve you. purposeless videos in such a way that you can't look away and eventually you lose track of time and then you go to the other main social media app Facebook and it's much, much worse, I mean you can't get past two posts without watching an ad. then you get a suggestion for your post that actually has nothing to do with you, there's a permanent sponsor tab on the side that's full of targeted ads, tons of inappropriate content, and a really bad system for reporting it where it never seems to be acted upon about nothing.

It's alarming because this is essentially the goal vision of a successful product and don't get me started on the way they handle data. I mean, the whole goal business model is to make money by profiling your users, tracking their activity and then selling their eyeballs to advertisers. I think it's pretty fair to say that no company on the planet has a worse track record of using people's data unreliably, and yet they ask you for it all here when you sign up for threads, look at all the things they you have to agree. There is a reason why Fred's is not working in the EU but this app even wants to access your sensitive health data which governments rightly ask why exactly you need this and if you sign up for threads there is no way not to. do it. agree to every part of this data exchange and there's also a really weird clause that says you can't close your thread account after opening it unless you also close your Instagram account, which I mean, who's going to do that?

It's hard to even understand, like if this app surpasses Twitter how powerful meta it becomes as a company. I mean, for example, I leave three links in the description of all my key social media apps for each video and this would mean that those three links would lead to meta-owned platforms. that's a monopoly, the most powerful monopoly that exists on the planet and that's not a lot of power for a company that has proven that it is willing to go to great lengths to extract money from its users, so what I'm saying is that I believe that the threads app as it stands now is doing a lot of things better than the competition in a way that has made me make more posts about it in a day than I have done in a month using Twitter, but there is also a lot of little to say that will continue like this, I mean, even reading between the lines of what the CEO himself says, let's get the users first and then start implementing money generation and, as you know, people hated the idea of ​​the metaverse and how this meta company would just be owning people if threads really kill Twitter and the meta ends up being the captain of social media, it's very much the first step of that, but at the same time I think people deserve second chances, so while Past actions are generally a pretty good indicator of intent.

I'm willing to be proven wrong, meta may see this not as a way to repeat the same mistakes but as a way to correct them and in the end it's the users who make these platforms what they are. If we decide that we want to use this as a positive force, that will automatically make it a better place to be and to help me achieve this, this is my thread count, Freddy, and waiting, I should probably cut the video before that.