A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users | Boing Boing
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Threads is off to a strong start, with about 25m active users a week in. It’s a lot, but it’s nowhere near Twitter numbers, even after a year of decline there. Threads becoming the new …
  • Norgur@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Let’s not forget that thread’s data collection is so atrocious that it didn’t launch in small and exotic markets like… Say… The whole of the EU.

  • Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I’m probably one of those. I joined because it was a low hanging fruit for an instagram user. It is basically twitter culture all over again. People complain that you’re just posting into a void on Mastodon but I get tons of responses over there. The real void is any mainstream social media where only the voice of influencers are amplified. The whole main feed is just 90% suggested posts. Why the fuck do I wanna see a post from Jake Paul or Mr. Beast?

    • Cyzaine@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      My experience as well. I blitzed and grinded followers cuz it was easy and why not. My feed is okay in general, but I had to follower 1.5kish people to get it that way.

      But I still get more than twice the engagement and meaningful engagement at that on Mastadon and Kbin, with less than half the followers. I also get little out of twitter, but I may be bad at it.