Posted on 07/06/2023 10:00:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
No thanks...you join instead...
The media was wetting their pants in excitement, amazing how they now HATE Musk and twitter because they cannot suppress free speech.
Meta claims that over 10 million people had signed up for it's Twitter competitor, Threads, in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed as a "friendly" alternative to the little blue bird.
"Let's do this. Welcome to Threads," wrote Zuckerberg in his first post on the app, which is a "text-based conversation app" where users can publish posts up to 500 characters long, and allows people to post links, photos and videos.
Threads is directly linked to Meta-owned Instagram, which has over 2 billion users. The Twitter competitor is being rolled out in over 100 countries for iOS and Android.
"The goal is to keep it friendly as it expands. I think it’s possible and will ultimately be the key to its success," wrote Zuckerberg in a Wednesday post, casting the service as a more wholesome substitute to Twitter. "That’s one reason why Twitter never succeeded as much as I think it should have, and we want to do it differently."
Meanwhile, data privacy and censorship concerns have emerged, with former Twitter owner Jack Dorsey highlighting the vast amount of data collected by Threads.
All your Threads are belong to us https://t.co/FfrIcUng5O pic.twitter.com/V7xbMOfINt — jack (@jack) July 4, 2023
As journalist Michael Shellenberger notes,
Within a few hours of launching, Threads was already secretly censoring users and not offering them the right to appeal.
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Meta is already too powerful. One company controls what much of the public is allowed to see. And if Threads succeeds, it will have 80% of the global market outside of Russia and China, according to one industry insider. As such, it’s reasonable to expect that Meta will censor precisely the same way the large news media corporations, including the New York Times, and corporate advertisers want it to. More censorship is what the mainstream news media, big corporations, and their celebrity pitch people have been demanding....additionally, Unlike Twitter, Threads collects data about "Health & Fitness," "Financial Info," "Sensitive Info," and "Other Data.”
.@meta /IG just released their new threads platform and I’ve been informed by multiple users that I’m censored on their new platform.
Sheesh, can’t a dude catch a break.@elonmusk doesn’t have me censored pic.twitter.com/WevfHx04qw
Cool, another social media thing I can ignore.
I posted a joke, my followers laughed..... Threads laughed 🧐
I only joined Twitter because Musk took it over, revealed the woke-government evil that was taking place, and fired 80% of the existing staff
twitter is a great way to follow people I am interested in - experts in their field, scientists, thought-leaders, etc...
I don’t use it to follow the Kardashians
I wouldn’t be surprised AT ALL if it was revealed that Zuckerberg is establishing “Threads” under some $$ massive, secret contract with the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Fuckerburgs attempt to bring down Elon will fail.
I have no interest in joining Threads, too many different sites out there already, some are a bit of an echo chamber, which is what this might be. But I did note that that gained 30-40 million members this morning without crashing. Recall Trump’s “Truth” that broke down and took months for us to get online. Bad hiring choices, like hiring members of congress to run an IT business (e.g., Devin Nunes)!
Am i missing something? Meta has been around for several years and they are acting like its new?
why would i want to help Zuck expand? he censored us during 2020 election.
Sorry, Zuck. You suck. No Threads for me.
Suckerberg can KMHA!
I only use Facebook for the interest groups, and silly things like “Idiots of Yellowstone”. No need for more than Twitter for discussion - in fact Truth Social is a pretty poor copy as well, not much interesting content and it never seems to display the most recent posts no matter what. Trump will get back on Twitter eventually and that will render Truth pretty much redundant. Threads won’t get far IMHO.
Deep state propaganda.
I’ll pass
On such sites I tend to like the animal videos.
I have no interest in the Nowheresville Nothings.
Zucky needs another avenue to steal elections?
I’m sure this will go over as big as the whole “Meta Universe” idea.
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