![]() The idea of allowing people to transfer their connections over from Instagram was ingenious. There is a lot of initial momentum, reminding me of the good old early days of Twitter. We are waiting to see how it pans out over time. Zuck has always succeeded in borrowed ideas. Seems like a more stable version of Twitter with a lot of promise. Rajneil Kamath, publisher of Newschecker (an Indian fact-checker): If they can figure out verification - and not charge people who add value to their platform - I think it could very well be a safer and more trusted spot for journalists. I think it has the best odds of any platform so far. We have to be smart about what we put on platforms by huge companies that do not share our values. Journalists produce valuable labor and should be compensated for it. However, I worry about journalists using a platform by a company that has signaled hostility towards journalists with its threats to remove news from its platforms if certain legislation passes. I’m excited to see more competition as Twitter has been imploding for about a year now. They won’t introduce ads to Threads until it reaches much larger adoption. Once the flywheel begins, and prominent voices start to break news on Threads, it will be harder for Twitter to chase that momentum. Yes - not because the advertising dollars will move over immediately, but because it will eventually put a dent in Twitter’s engagement. In your opinion, is it a threat to Twitter? This means that Threads is likely moving in the direction of successful apps that Instagram has created and integrated, like Boomerang and Layout. Already, more than 10 million people have joined Threads, per Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Most of those apps had users in the hundreds of thousands range. I wrote about all of the copycat features and apps launched by Meta that have failed, mostly due to lack of user adoption. Sara Fischer, Axios senior media reporter: I can say unequivocally that Threads isn’t going to kill Twitter. Twitter was special in part because of the communities it created around interests and events and the ability to search out and find reliable information during real-time events, emergencies and breaking news. Having said that, it’ll probably be a success - Meta already had the users and Twitter gave them the blueprint.īut. It’s buggy and so far it feels to me like the algorithm seems poised to replicate the Instagram experience - which is not what people go to Twitter for. Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News senior reporter: Their responses have been edited for length and clarity. ![]() ![]() We asked journalists - who are often cited with politicians, comedians and celebrities as early Twitter adopters and a major source of its rise - what they think about the new Instagram Threads and if Twitter could really be over this time. More than half a year later, Mastodon and several other would-be usurpers - most notably Post.News and Bluesky - boast just a fraction of Twitter’s traffic and almost none of the cultural clout.īut a series of technical missteps and the launch of a new competitor from Meta seem to finally be threatening Twitter’s place as the short-text pulse of the internet. Musk’s coziness with misinformation, uneven application of free speech absolutism and massive rounds of layoffs left the site increasingly too dubious, too toxic, and too broken for many users. In the hours after Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in October 2022, scores of users declared the social network over and fled to Mastodon. ![]()
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