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Instagram Threads now has one-fifth the weekly active user base of Twitter (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in the U.S., Truth Social, which had a weekly active user base of 1 million as of last week.

First off, I do not like having this information. Secondly,

Still ahead for the app are larger improvements like a following feed

Imagine. A platform whose main functionality is and always has been content from followed users, but they consented to release without the follow button. I don't understand why that's anything but decimating to their usage. Even more confusing when you find there are already multiple avenues to buy bot followers, which may be what's happening in India. They could just be preparing their market (tagging @stopthatgirl7 so I don't have to split my train of thought into redundant comments)

I'd be very interested to know what Instagram's sign-ups look like. It's nothing to say that threads got X many users when doing that entails having an instagram. What's the split here? Has there been an increase in people making those for the purpose of Threads, or is this just existing users branching out towards every available opportunity? Because not doing that would only logically put them at a disadvantage if their goal is visibility.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m not surprised it’s so popular, but I’ll admit to being surprised it’s so popular in India and Brazil. Is Instagram really popular in those countries, or is it something else?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Facebook was subsidising the internet access? (search "internet.org" for why it's controversial - when Facebook went offline people couldn't even access government services or health services)

[–] Bonzo -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it possible to block keywords in post titles in wefwef? Twitter is not news.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perhaps asking in a wefwef community/magazine would be more productive if you really want an answer. Otherwise, it seems like you’re just passively-aggressively complaining about seeing something because you personally aren’t interested. Those of us commenting and upvoting, however, are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not yet as far as I know. None of the ones I’m testing allow it. Something I’m looking forward to for sure.

[–] XbSuper 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, thankfully I use connect where I definitely can block keywords.