A comment on the NYT article "What Is the Threads Logo Supposed to Look Like? Sure, it’s probably an @ symbol. But the abstract logo of Instagram’s new Twitter rival has drawn comparisons to an ear, an ampersand and a piece of spaghetti."
Threads is getting a lot of puffy press.
Is anyone saying that "Threads" sounds an awful lot like "threats"?
ADDED: Here's this in today's NYT: "Why the Early Success of Threads May Crash Into Reality/Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point." That doesn't sound puffy. Mike Isaac likens Threads to Google+, which back in 2011, was supposed to be the "Facebook killer." It got a big headstart because there were pre-existing Google users. But by 2018, it was dead. You need people to keep using the thing.Google+, users soon grew bored of the novelty of the new social network and stopped using it. Some saw Google+ as something that was forced on them while they were just trying to gain access to their Gmail. Former Google employees described the product as “fear-based,” built only in response to Facebook and without a clear vision of why people should be using it instead of a competing network.
In a post-mortem of what went wrong, one ex-Googler wrote that Google+ mainly defined itself by “what it wasn’t — i.e. Facebook.”...
The commenters at the NYT article are saying the big difference between Google+ and Threads is that the Threads users are motivate by hatred — hatred of Elon Musk.
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LMAO actually it looks like - a lot like - something else!
Never mind that turning it in 3 different directions also gets you "666"...where would be without the subtle satanism of progressive edgelords.
Someone pointed out recently that it is Homer Simpson's right ear.
It’s the worm that the Twitter blue bird pulled up from the yard to devour.
Geez what a lucky break for the Threadreader"> app when they chose that name for Zuck's walled garden, huh?
It's a threat to Free Speech.
It's getting the Progressive tongue bath because it's a Progressive-approved instrument. The censorship stories already abound, in fact it would appear to be taking it a step further, into pre-crime. Try to follow the 'wrong' person, and a message pops up: Are you sure? This person has been known to spread mis-information or words to that effect.
It's good, in a way. All the right people will collect there, safe in their censored surroundings, feeling unchallenged and unthreatened. Keeping it all in one tidy place, kind of like.... a septic tank, when you think about it.
Spell check tells me that 'mis-information' isn't actually a word! My alternative choices: sim-information, mus-information, mos-information, mid-information, mi-information. As I type them out here, none of them are shown as misspellings! Thanks A.I. !!
The lefties will love it no matter how it looks. They are getting their censorship back. You Tube shut down RFK Jr's Peterson interview. The Left loves its straw men.
It's simple. It's a 6, and a backward 6, and... Uh oh.
“But the abstract logo of Instagram’s new Twitter rival has drawn comparisons to an ear, an ampersand and a piece of spaghetti.”
So an ear, an ampersand, and a piece of spaghetti walk into a bar…
"Threads is getting a lot of puffy press."
JournoList never died, the CIA just got a lot better at keeping people who weren't in the club from penetrating the veil around their conspiratorial activities.
(p.s. Yes they cook this stuff up at Langley...if ya'll haven't caught on yet.)
The cool kids always want to have their very own playhouse. And they want to let the uncool kids know how very cool it is and why they won't be allowed to play in it.
My wife (the instajunky) and I were talking about this on Sunday. She received a prompt through Insta about migrating to Threads last week, and knowing her husband well she told me before clicking the prompt. I told her I didn't know what to think until I read a little more about what was going on, and on Sunday I told her 'what was going on'.
We both have and follow a strict policy regarding our children and social media, but as long as the policy is followed her Insta is hers to do with what she wants. She ended up not 'migrating', thank God.
I explained to her (not in these words) that for 50 years or longer in this country the sensible have been ceding high ground in the culture wars to progressive lefto-fascists and that this era was coming to an end. That these people - always outnumbered and outgunned - required the tacit acquiescence and forfeiture by people like me of the battle space to prosper and spread. You don't need any more evidence that they're outnumbered and outgunned than the recent revelations in media of the last 10 years. The MSM, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc have been and are the way they are because there is nothing genuine about the message that's 'crafted' for you there. Everything was, is, and in the case of Threads will continue to be artificial, they're talking points can't survive if it's not artificial.
Every last goddamn aspect of their political and philosophical platform requires artificially manufactured consensus to survive first contact with the enemy (people like me). They need their echo chamber like they need oxygen. I and millions like me will never ever allow them to breathe the free air again. They will be required to fight for every lungful from here on out.
'Silver Threads and Golden Needles' is a country standard, famously sung by Linda Ronstadt with the Eagles as her backup band.
I think 'Freds' sounds more welcoming.
Why sign up for a Twitter clone when Twitter already exists?
The full force of a corrupt government are behind Threads success. They’ll pretend if they have to…
Call it "Feds"?
"JournoList never died"
So much this. Twitter was its replacement. On steroids.
Michael K said...The lefties will love it no matter how it looks.
They may love it, but they won't use it. The last 50 years are strewn with the wreckage of projects embraced for their politics. Millions are signing up because they must, millions more because they hope it will be like old twitter--twitter for lefties. But it won't be that and they will drift back to twitter and threads will die.
speaking of NYTs "puff pieces".. here's an OUTRAGEOUS Exposé of the OUTRAGES that Justice Thomas has been engaged in!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html
Latest Clarence Thomas Corruption Shocker: He Belongs To Group That Helps Poor Kids Go To College!
This dubious syndicate of wealthy Americans, named after “the Gilded Age author whose rags-to-riches novels represented an aspirational version of Justice Thomas’ own bootstraps origin story,” has handed out around $245 million in college scholarships to approximately 35,000 students. It doesn’t stop there, I’m afraid. The Times reports that Thomas — and you may want to sit down for this — was “meeting with and mentoring the recipients of millions of dollars a year in Horatio Alger college scholarships, many of whom come from backgrounds that mirror his own.”
the Times combed through the records of every member of the Horatio Alger Association — and ex-wives and brothers-in-law and so on — to investigate if they, or any company they invested in, had even a tenuous connection to a case that found its way in front of the Supreme Court. Apparently, they couldn’t ferret out one. This didn’t stop some unethical NYT editor from moving forward with a story that was almost surely pitched to them by an anti-court activist group.
RideSpaceMountain pointed out, that...
My wife (the instajunky) and I were talking about this on Sunday. She received a prompt through Insta about migrating to Threads last week..
SO! 30 Million people "signed up" for Threads!
How many people "received a prompt through Insta about migrating" ??? ALL of the Insta users, right?
And WHAT did you have to do, to "sign up" One Click, right?
Of those "30 million" users, that "signed up" How many are (have? (ever will?)) using it?
It's all Geek to me.
It's similar to the hobo symbol warning that police patrol that location.
I understand "Threads" drains a phone battery faster than any other ap out there. I suspect the new sign-ups will eventually migrate back to Twitter.
The logo looks like a bubble to me.
Threads users are motivate by hatred — hatred of Elon Musk.
Doesn't strike me as a huge market base. Maybe I'm wrong.
it is Homer Simpson's right ear.
Homer Simpson's hair and right ear are Matt Groening's initials.
“‘Threads users are motivate by hatred — hatred of Elon Musk.’
Doesn't strike me as a huge market base. Maybe I'm wrong.”
It may be a small market base but hatred is the most powerful emotion known to the human race. Those users may be few but they will be loyal. Zuckerberg may end up making money from this.
My instinct tells me that merely being the Non-Musk-associated alternative to twitter won't be enough for Threads to flourish. The true value of a social network like this is number of users it has. Ultimately Facebook won out over MySpace and when it did there was a large movement of users who moved to Facebook. Trying to out Twitter, Twitter seems an impossible task. IF the goal of some is to diminish Twitter, the best bet is make a new type of social media that is different than Twitter. Facebook didn't diminish because someone made a better version of Facebook, it diminished because people moved onto different types of social media.
So what is an individual post on Threads referred to as? A swatch? If a lot of people comment on a swatch and repost it, is it a pilling? I need to know so I can toot about it on Mastadon.
If Threads is to be defined by what it is against, then it is self limiting at the start. That doesn't take a platform very far with general users.
The commenters at the NYT article are saying the big difference between Google+ and Threads is that the Threads users are motivate by hatred — hatred of Elon Musk.
Hatred seems like it would prompt signups (and cancellations), but I'm not sure how good that's going to be for attracting a stable, long-term userbase. If the product is really solid, though, just getting a critical mass of people in the door all at the same time may be enough to propel it into viability.
Other efforts to build userbases on spite/resentment (I'd put Truth Social or whatever it's called in this bucket) haven't really displaced Twitter, but Threads does have the additional advantage of exploiting Facebook's existing Instagram userbase, so it's like a combination of the (lackluster) Google+ and Truth launches. Maybe the combination of the two strategies will work.
The emperor has no threads.
Will an R or a D be Thread’s first-banned son? I mean Trump or RFK, Jr.
Certainly one, the other, or both will be banned by the newly hired, Twitter-fired, partisan hall monitors of Threads.
He stole code from Twitter and scraped so much data from there, Elon had to restrict engagement for a couple of days. People immediately freaked that Elon was breaking his promise. It’s so much better now at Twitter that I think
Feds will fail
"The commenters at the NYT article are saying the big difference between Google+ and Threads is that the Threads users are motivate by hatred — hatred of Elon Musk."
Balfegor: "Hatred seems like it would prompt signups (and cancellations), but I'm not sure how good that's going to be for attracting a stable, long-term userbase."
As we see with the lefties at Althouse blog (Dumb Lefty Mark, gadfly, readering, LLR-democratical Chuck et al) its even worse for creating a "stable, long-term userbase" when hatred for Musk is combined with invincible ignorance in business and tech and engineering.
Threads looks so much like Twitter that I mistook the first screenshots I saw of it for Twitter. Surely there is an intellectual property lawsuit coming.
Just checking in to see if X./twitter has already declared bankruptcy, shut down operations and sold off all their assets at rock bottom basement prices to pay off creditors.
I was assured months ago it was all but inevitable by the Usual Lefty/LLR-lefty Suspects.
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