"We're seeing more people coming back daily than I'd expected," Zuckerberg said.
Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it::“We’re seeing more people coming back daily than I’d expected,” Zuckerberg said.
It was super easy to sign up but ultimately it’s missing a lot of features and is why people didn’t stick around. There’s still no search or hashtags so finding content that interests you is basically luck with the algorithm.
It wasn’t automatic. Not sure where you got that idea. But you had to get the app and then sign in using your Instagram account to set up the thread profile. They had “shadow copies” of your Instagram profiles on threads so for example you could sub to someone’s profile and when they’d join threads you’d get their activities. But no it wasn’t automatic.
It’s severe lack of features was its downfall. I signed up and my feed was full of random celebs with no way to filter it to people you follow (apparently they added this recently). But the main issue NO FCKING SEARCH, you can only search for accounts nothing else. Discoverability if you are not a famous person is basically 0. No hashtags so no discussion of specific trends or topics. No Trends in general.
Actually I am one of them who signed up during the initial hype. I was on twitter few years before. Was fed up and deleted the account. Started thread since I like twitter like social media. But it was full of stolen post from reddit and twitter. The same stupid memes I saw in reddit, lemmy etc are present there. Nothing interesting. I can get all the news, memes and entertaining contents from reddit and lemmy. Why the hell should I see that again in threads? Then there are people who is using it like instagram and Facebook. Just posting thier photos in different poses. I still have the app, but hasn’t spent 5 minutes in the last week.
Lack of trends and hashtag search is a big no for me.
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That’s okay, it’s still sending all your data to Meta, and that’s the important thing.
Most? The article says “more than half” so which is it?
I think those two phrases mean the same thing
So we’re gonna sit here and pretend that there weren’t automatic sign-ups for Instagram users? They got signed up without choice. Facebook did that.
Edit: I was wrong! I remember reading about this early on, but I think I read misinformation. Sorry about that.
To add further context to the corrections this comment has already received, there are 1.6 billion (with a B) Instagram users. Far more than 100 million.
This is the key. There certainly were NOT 100mm people that signed up of their own accord.
Upvoted for your edit. Publicly admitting you’re wrong has become too rare.
I have no problems publicly admitting that you are wrong.
It was super easy to sign up but ultimately it’s missing a lot of features and is why people didn’t stick around. There’s still no search or hashtags so finding content that interests you is basically luck with the algorithm.
It wasn’t automatic. Not sure where you got that idea. But you had to get the app and then sign in using your Instagram account to set up the thread profile. They had “shadow copies” of your Instagram profiles on threads so for example you could sub to someone’s profile and when they’d join threads you’d get their activities. But no it wasn’t automatic.
Can’t expect people who are actually still using twitter to stop at this point.
It’s severe lack of features was its downfall. I signed up and my feed was full of random celebs with no way to filter it to people you follow (apparently they added this recently). But the main issue NO FCKING SEARCH, you can only search for accounts nothing else. Discoverability if you are not a famous person is basically 0. No hashtags so no discussion of specific trends or topics. No Trends in general.
This was my biggest driver as well, I liked the platform but it lacked features and I too hate being flooded with people I don’t know on my feed.
They are going to continue to bleed users because of lack of features.
No shit, it’s S-tier shit and they were signed up without asking to be.
Actually I am one of them who signed up during the initial hype. I was on twitter few years before. Was fed up and deleted the account. Started thread since I like twitter like social media. But it was full of stolen post from reddit and twitter. The same stupid memes I saw in reddit, lemmy etc are present there. Nothing interesting. I can get all the news, memes and entertaining contents from reddit and lemmy. Why the hell should I see that again in threads? Then there are people who is using it like instagram and Facebook. Just posting thier photos in different poses. I still have the app, but hasn’t spent 5 minutes in the last week.
Lack of trends and hashtag search is a big no for me.
Launching a new social media network and not making it available in the EU is really dumb imho.
Not launching in the EU tells you everything you need to know about their privacy policies.
Nearly half still using it is actually pretty good. Stupid headline.