The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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Far-right influencers first on Musk's monetisation scheme.

So far, the influencers who have publicly revealed that they’re part of the program are prominent figures on the right. Andrew Tate, for example, who was recently released from jail on rape and human trafficking charges, posted that he’d been paid over $20,000 by Twitter.
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But a cautionary note sounded for some thinking that they're in:

“I think that there are some conservative content creators who are unhappy,” said Kris Ruby, a conservative influencer and president of Ruby Media Group. “It doesn’t seem even across the board. I don’t think the playing field is level.”

She said some on the right who weren’t included in the program, despite meeting all the criteria, are venting in private. “Most conservatives don’t want to go up against the wrath of Elon and what happens when you criticize him,” she said. “We’ve seen that he’s not really applying the terms of service equally across the board.”
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I wasn't a Meta user until this week, but my Twitter use is falling under a mass of spam, adverts everywhere, very low engagement because -- it seems -- I'm not paying, and most of the people I follow aren't paying. So I'm, finally, getting a backup strategy... and Threads appears to be as close to it as there is, so far.

However Threads is 'orrible as it stands. I need dark mode first, before I go blind, and I need to have a feed I choose rather than a feed they mostly think I need. It is awful, so far. But they got me on Instagram (for five seconds!) and Threads, so they did well to weaponise Elon's latest attempt to make non-payers feel like their free lunch is over. Which is fair enough, I suppose. But I feel happier knowing I've got my foot in the Threads door and an alternative as Twitter, after 11 years, feels less like somewhere I want to hang around on.

Until very recently I scoffed at thoughts Twitter might fail. Now... less scoffing, more hedging my bets.
 
Roar87 said:
www.cnbc.com

Meta Threads engagement has dropped off since red-hot debut, tracking firms say

Facebook's Twitter-killer, Threads, has seen drops in daily active users and time spent on app, according to SensorTower and SimilarWeb.
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Threads is basically the left wing version of Truth social lol
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Its been up for a week and you are claiming its dead in the water :cry: :cry: :cry:

Really is it full of left wing lies and conspiracy theories? Could you show us some screen shots as you've clearly been seeing them on there.

Or let me guess... you haven't been on there and read anything.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
Its been up for a week and you are claiming its dead in the water :cry: :cry: :cry:

Really is it full of left wing lies and conspiracy theories? Could you show us some screen shots as you've clearly been seeing them on there.

Or let me guess... you haven't been on there and read anything.
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If something is trending downwards after a week then of course it's dead in the water lol. Do you think any successful social media platform was trending down a week after release?
 
Roar87 said:
If something is trending downwards after a week then of course it's dead in the water lol. Do you think any successful social media platform was trending down a week after release?
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It has just launched, it doesn't have many of the features people want yet. Just because it isn't trending like it did in the first few days doesn't mean its dead. 100m in under a week is hardly a fatal sign up. You are being as bad as the people who said Twitter was dead.
 
Weren't people who attracted followers already getting payed by sponsors who wanted their adds associated with them ? (is there something genuinely new)

( apparently $5M payouts for blue-tickers who injected £10M, will Musk say what he got payed.)
 
Roar87 said:
If something is trending downwards after a week then of course it's dead in the water lol. Do you think any successful social media platform was trending down a week after release?
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How many social media platforms had 100M users after 1 week?

C Kent said:
How many sign ups has there been since the 100 million that was reported on Monday?
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I mean does it matter. Its looking like its not really ready yet.

The key will be will they keep developing, will it catch Twitter or not.
Twitter is clearly the better product right now, no doubt.

All I am seeing is people saying they are either waiting to sign up, or are creating duplicate accounts.
I haven't yet seen anyone saying they are leaving Twitter for Threads. But just in case heres my threads.

Twitter is not sunk, its just got a real potential competitor.

IMO the best thing is both succeed, and they push each other to be better :)
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
How many social media platforms had 100M users after 1 week?
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How many have launched with a ready made user count of a billion or so?
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
I mean does it matter. Its looking like its not really ready yet.

The key will be will they keep developing, will it catch Twitter or not.
Twitter is clearly the better product right now, no doubt.

All I am seeing is people saying they are either waiting to sign up, or are creating duplicate accounts.
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How many of those sign ups will wait and come back though? When something launches and it doesn't even offer the same 'value' as an existing product it will quite often go the way of the dodo.
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
I haven't yet seen anyone saying they are leaving Twitter for Threads. But just in case heres my threads.

Twitter is not sunk, its just got a real potential competitor.
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Really? I've seen plenty of celebrities say that exact thing, usually they are of the hysterical variety mind you.
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
IMO the best thing is both succeed, and they push each other to be better :)
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Agreed
 
C Kent said:
How many have launched with a ready made user count of a billion or so?

How many of those sign ups will wait and come back though? When something launches and it doesn't even offer the same 'value' as an existing product it will quite often go the way of the dodo.

Really? I've seen plenty of celebrities say that exact thing, usually they are of the hysterical variety mind you.

Agreed
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Think you miss my point.
Comparing a new platform that starts at zero, its going to be hard to not see increasing volumes every week.

Starting a platform at a massive level its not going to follow the same trend.

The main issue for any new platform is getting going.

Twitter took over 5 years to reach 100M users. Would you prefer 5 days or 5 years if you were launching a new platform? ;)

My point was, Roars response was basically typical for him. A strange take on a situation because it hasn't happened before that I know of. So you cannot draw a parallel.

www.visualcapitalist.com

How Long it Took for Popular Apps to Reach 100 Million Users

Threads reached 100 million users in just five days. Here is a timeline of how long other popular platforms took to reach the milestone.
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C Kent said:
Any different from those proclaiming the end is nigh for twitter in here when threads and it's sign ups were dominating tech news?
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Not at all, was just gauging Roar's stance.

Roar87 said:
Not disappear, just become largely unused. If it's trending down this soon post launch, then it's not going to suddenly start going up. They'll keep it running for a few years at least.
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Okie dokie...
 
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