Twitter Reading Limits

[Pakuni]

Imagine a person being such a douche that you have to cheer for Zuck

I can imagine that. I voted for Biden, after all.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

If he's suing that means he sees it as a legitimate threat

[jficke13]

That letter is a comically empty threat.

Vintage lawyer-placating-crazy-client stuff.

[Uncle Rico]

That letter is a comically empty threat.

Vintage lawyer-placating-crazy-client stuff.

You knew Pudding Fingers presidential bid was doomed when he launched on Twitter with Elon

[pbiflyer]

I love that Elon is complaining zuck hired the guys Elon fired because he didn't need that many people.

[The Sultan]

You knew Pudding Fingers Scott Walker Part II's presidential bid was doomed when he launched on Twitter with Elon

FIFY

[jficke13]

FIFY

kinda feels like Walker outperformed Florida Man, tbh.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

I love that Elon is complaining zuck hired the guys Elon fired because he didn't need that many people.

And he fired them in the most antagonistic way possible. Smart.

[Boozemon Barro]

Threads feels like an early access steam game that's still in alpha. Wonder why they rushed it out instead of waiting until it was more polished?

[tower912]

$$$$$

[Boozemon Barro]

$$$$$

How? Data mining can't be that much if the users aren't actually using it.

[Uncle Rico]

Threads feels like an early access steam game that's still in alpha. Wonder why they rushed it out instead of waiting until it was more polished?

Opportunity was ripe with the Twitter meltdown last weekend.  People have been looking for an alternative for a long time.

I was skeptical and still am, but less and less each moment.  A LOT of people I know from Twitter have jumped and have been active.  All the other alternatives didn't see the average person jump and be this active. 

[jesmu84]

Have they made a chronological timeline available yet?

[Uncle Rico]

Have they made a chronological timeline available yet?

No, and I don't think it's happening soon

[MU82]

In today's NYT DealBook newsletter:

Why Threads poses an antitrust conundrum

The rivalry between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk went into overdrive this week after Meta rolled out Threads, a Twitter rival that on its first day became the most rapidly downloaded app ever.

In an era of tighter antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech in the United States, in Europe and elsewhere, what questions does Meta's effort to extend its social media reach raise about the industry's ability to expand into new areas — even when players build new services themselves, rather than buy a smaller foe?

Size matters, but it's just one factor. Threads "sets two antitrust instincts against each other," Tim Wu, an architect of the Biden administration's antitrust policy and now a professor at Columbia Law School, told DealBook.

Challenging Twitter's dominance is positive. "Generally, we'd like the big companies to be taking each other on, not just sitting in their little bubbles raking in the cash," Wu said. By contrast, Meta already dominates the social media landscape through Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Expanding that empire and enabling it to accumulate more data, he said, "is hard to be that cheerful about."

Regulators will want to know how Meta is gaining market share: by offering a better product, or by using the advantages of scale to unfairly crush Twitter? Threads is integrated into Instagram, giving it potential access to roughly two billion monthly active users. Another sticky issue: Users have to delete their Instagram account to cancel their Threads account. (It's unclear how the Federal Trade Commission, which has vowed to crack down on firms that make opting out of a service too onerous, might view this arrangement.)

Data concerns loom large. Threads isn't available in the European Union, where privacy watchdogs have long been concerned with how Meta handles users' information. On Tuesday, the bloc's top court backed an antitrust investigation of Meta over data privacy violations, concluding that data is a decisive factor in establishing market power.

Being big doesn't run afoul of antitrust law. Organic growth is not a problem, Nancy Rose, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former economist in the Justice Department's antitrust division, told DealBook. She is "sympathetic" to the notion that it would be better for a new player, rather than a tech giant, to challenge Twitter but believes Meta is "a credible competitor." The company has a "jump start," Rose said, but smaller alternatives like Mastodon have had trouble taking off precisely because they don't.

"The key is network effects," said Doug Melamed, a Stanford Law School professor and former antitrust official at the Justice Department. The utility of Meta's products to consumers increases as more users sign up. Leveraging them to enhance the quality of Threads would not in and of itself violate antitrust laws, Melamed said.

"There's a narrative out there that anything a tech company does is bad," said Daniel Francis, who teaches law at New York University and is a former deputy director of the F.T.C.'s Bureau of Competition. He argues that consumer unhappiness with changes to Twitter drove people to find an alternative. "The Threads example shows that big tech companies can also be valuable entrants, bringing new competitive pressure," Francis said.

[Heisenberg]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/meet-the-competing-apps-battling-for-twitters-market-share/

[MU82]

While Threads has surpassed 100 million users in a matter of days -- by far the fastest to 100 million of any app in history, according to WSJ, and nearly two months faster than ChatGPT reached that level -- Twitter's traffic is decreasing, according to Cloudflare's CEO.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788906/twitters-traffic-is-taking-a-dive-according-to-cloudflares-ceo?campaign_id=4&emc=edit_dk_20230710&instance_id=97138&nl=dealbook&regi_id=108420427&segment_id=138814&te=1&user_id=d36dcf821462fdd16ec3636710a855fa

[Jockey]

Let's face it. This is not a reaction to Twitter - it is all about Musk.

[Pakuni]

Elon seems to be holding up well.

https://tinyurl.com/ynpshazt

[jficke13]

Elon seems to be holding up well.

https://tinyurl.com/ynpshazt

Either he's welly and truly cracking up, or he forgot to log into one of his burners.

[Pakuni]

The Taliban remains firmly Team Elon.

https://www.newsweek.com/taliban-leader-praises-twitter-anas-haqqani-1812050

[GB Warrior]

I think Zuck overplayed his hand. Elon or not, the toxicity I enjoy on Twitter wasn't cultivated overnight

[panda]

Screw musk and his toxic stupid app! I'd much rather go to threads where the apps creator only influenced a presidential election, sold users information and then would own Facebook, instagram and theoretically a newer more popular twitter. Controlling the news anyone?

[Uncle Rico]

Screw musk and his toxic stupid app! I'd much rather go to threads where the apps creator only influenced a presidential election, sold users information and then would own Facebook, instagram and theoretically a newer more popular twitter. Controlling the news anyone?

That's how bad it is.  Really amazing Musk let it happen.  They'll teach classes on it

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Screw musk and his toxic stupid app! I'd much rather go to threads where the apps creator only influenced a presidential election, sold users information and then would own Facebook, instagram and theoretically a newer more popular twitter. Controlling the news anyone?

Running to Zuckerberg to own Musk, very progressive.