Comments by "Technolus" (@technolus5742) on "Threads vs. Twitter: Could Elon Musk’s App Be Replaced? | WSJ Tech News Briefing" video.

Somehow it's gotten even worse 💀
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I've seen political discussions, and they are simply higher quality than those I see on Twitter rampant with crazy conspiracies/disinformation and negativity where people are just shouting bs at eachother (which is a pretty low bar). Threads hasn't replaced my need fora centralized source of quick updates regarding services that I use or am interested in. If a significant part of industry would move their announcements over to threads I would probably just not use twitter.
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23.6 million active users, or about 22% of Twitter’s audience. So that's roughly a fifth of Twitter's active users, with roughly a fifth of its users.
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Not really, rampant bs and misinformation are pretty off-putting, some cleanup is in order.
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It's nearly on pair with Twitter now. The initial numbers were due to hype. Lol nearly 2.5x the active users per user as Twitter. That level was obviously unsustainable.
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@kuwashi From what I have seen it just started with off the charts interest and then went back to regular values
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 @Semper_Iratus Random people with some basic guidelines, who check the sources for the thousands that just click share without a second thought....
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@TomNook. True, that does not make a conspiracy. Different viewpoints is perfectly fine. I see them removed when there is blatant misinformation or certain "remarks" about lgbt or other minorities.
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It is an alternative to twitter, currently the one holding the highest number of users after twitter itself.
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People were looking for an alternative, just waiting to jump ship.
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Not being censored at all, if you are you probably are spreading misinformation/ vilifying some minority.
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@JenniferA886 Yeah, announcements from services I'm interested in due to my work. I haven't seen a mass migration yet, but I hope there might be once companies see the landscape becoming more well defined.
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Yeah, the question is whether institutional users will shift over. Like brands who use it for their announcements. Personally that's all I use twitter for.
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@minorityvoice9253 censorship, like when turkey wanted to silence political opponents...
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Many people prefer a platform that is not as littered with misinformation and hate. It's absurd that people go around declaring a platform dead as soon as it is launched, especially when it is tapping into the resources of existing social media to fuel the greatest start of an app ever. Let's wait until it actually somewhat stabilizes before making random predictions based on personal feelings.
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@Sebster85 Your comments won't be the subject of moderation unless you go around being rude or spreading blatant lies. Do you really have to pretend to be civil? I find political censorship worrisome, like when Twitter engaged in censorship in turkey. Now insults and concerted efforts to lie to the population at scale? No thanks.
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Source? All the newest reports I see say 20%. It's normal that people rushed all at once to try it out initially and then defaulted to a more normal usage pattern.
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@chrisfrank4267 Looked it up: What is down 75% is searches for the word "threads", not the app itself. The app is down from 49mil to 23.6 million active users, or about 22% of Twitter’s audience (with about 20% as many total users). That's a drop of 50%, not 75, and the end numbers are similar in proportion to twitter.
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Yet you are the one dreaming of things that have not happened 💀
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It's just been launched lol there probably isn't even enough data past the hype to know what its baseline actually is.
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What do you mean?
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Because Musk's behavior is directly driving many people away. Zuckerberg's actions however do not help twitter grow.
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Yet Twitter promptly censored for Turkey. Twitter is not free it's just overrun by disinformation. It's kinda like fox, where it's viewers were actually less informed than those who didn't watch any news at all.
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