Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week

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[–]HiddenFox[S] 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

That's alot of bots!

[–]Tarrock 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's worth noting that threads is giving all instagram users a button to quickly sign up, which pumps up this number. Google+ did this back in the day and it ended up shutting down with 250m users.

[–]binaryblob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The method Facebook uses to report numbers is not actually specified beyond some blurb involving "it uses machine learning", which means that it can't be trusted. Facebook has every incentive to fudge the numbers, because it's not like the SEC will ever check any of it. No law firm is going to check either, because it's really fucking complicated to come up with a satisfying count in the first place, because you need to have something to answer the question "Is this a bot?", which since generative AI became a thing is basically impossible.

I have no doubt a lot of people use WhatsApp, but WhatsApp hardly is "social media". It's basically just voice + SMS, which is a commodity at this point (Signal, Telegram, Matrix). Facebook is just boring now, which is why Reddit became popular.

[–]Clown_Chan 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Uh, what even is that? Another social media for troons, pedos and faggots? Good, let all these vermins migrate there, maybe then all other social media will finally be degenerate free.

[–]TitsAndWhiskey 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I never liked Twitter, but now I feel like maybe I should log in again. If we have Truth on the far right and now Threads on the far left, maybe Twitter can be a place for normal people now.

[–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Truth on the far right? Truth censors Truth about jews

[–]TitsAndWhiskey 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Honest question, do you consider yourself a Nazi? Like, not the way that word has been diluted in the past few years, but a real Nazi?

[–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm more of a contrarian, and I like human psychology. I like to post true and provocative statements, or at least true from my perspective, that trigger people. I also like to play devils advocate to test different opinions and explore them. If all people react emotionally, then that's not really good counter arguments.

About politics, I'm probably more like the founding fathers of the US.

[–]TitsAndWhiskey 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just curious.

[–]William_World 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

like why not just use facebook it's pretty much the same thing