base talk Threads is flopping: Already lost over half its users, daily usage down 70%

[Carry My Heart]

[fauxtography]

Totally their fault. Cant search tags, no timeline options, forced timeline is too corporate.

 

The first week with weak features was somewhat forgivable, but almost a month later and its still lacking basic social media features. Yeah, Mark launched a wee bit too soon.

[May]

my director wanted me to get us on threads and i told him no bc it’ll be flopping within a month  glad to see i was right

 

just another Google+

[Odette Violet]

It's boring and ugly. They need to improve everything in it if they want people to switch. 

[Windy Day]

deserved. i dont understand why it takes so long to update with basic features while twitter had the time to completely rebrand and launches new features every two weeks since threads launched

[omni]

X rebrand worked

[Devin]

Its their fault. They put no effort into the app, they just did it to spite and invite Twitter users.

[Uncatena]

1 minute ago, Devin said:

Its their fault. They put no effort into the app, they just did it to spite and invite Twitter users.

exactly! they thought they could win over jumping Twitter users but then it was just twitter but without ANY of the features that make it fun. 

[Raptus]

Same as ATRL

[Kuntmonster]

I hate the dark theme, not sure if you can change it, and it seems kind of reductive anyway.

 

it might have made sense if it was just part of the Instagram app, and you had a separate tab for threads or whatever. But I don’t see any reason to use it over Twitter 

[Siblon]

[Bloodflowers.]

I thought this would be about ATRL, that is how irrelevant this "Threads" thing is, a Google+ tea 

[Dula Peep]

Besides Facebook kinda copying MySpace... has copying an already existing app/platform ever worked? Especially one thats been around for ten years.

[Siberian Tiger]

Expected, the app is hardly usable

[JonginBey]

Made an account the day it was available, saw the forced timeline and no DM option, and then dipped.

 

Edited July 31, 2023 by JonginBey

[Artist]

Threads will be fine. Mark just needs the updates and to pay influencers to use it.

[réveuse]

Welp, guess both X and Threads lost.

[Smarticle]

seeing 0 - 50 likes on the popular influencers i follow doesn't help

[Beyonnaise]

I mean Twitter itself isn't even used by much of the population, and it's declining. This just tells me text-based social media is losing.

[John Slayne]

the app is half-baked and not even available in the EU. Meta should've waited before releasing it 

[Seffers]

not surprised at all

[Zeferino]

X won in the end 

[Blue Jeans]

What is it even for? To post quotes and daily ruminations? I cringe if I try to post just text or try to be funny. Photos FTW

[Heldenzeit]

Open the EU borders, flops! 

[Illuminati]

The initial numbers were high because Instagram users could just use it with existing accounts afaik (haven't used it myself), so it's not surprising that it was frontloaded. The lack of some basic functionality didn't help.

 

But Meta can just keep throwing money at it and copy things that various other apps provide to make it more appealing, just like they did with all their products.

 

Wbk that it wasn't gonna be the app people gravitate to, we need someone with fresh ideas to take on Twitter

Edited July 31, 2023 by Illuminati