Social to Antisocial
Tim Klapdor,
Heart | Soul | Machine,
Jul 07, 2023
So I suppose I should round up the responses to the launch of Threads, Mata's answer to (the demise of) Twitter. Here, Tim Klapdor describes the social networks as performative, not social. "And every platform followed the same model — insular, monologic, performative, ad and surveillance driven, and increasingly toxic." John Gruber notes, "the timeline is algorithmic — it shows you threads both from people you follow and from people you don't." Dan Pontrefact writes Threads offers "a nostalgic alternative for users who miss the simpler and more intimate times of Twitter in 2008," but my own experience is that it's also filled with garbage. Helen Blunden calls Threads a trap, saying "if you want to delete Threads, you'll delete Instagram as well" (not that this is a problem for me).
More: Axios reports that copying is what Meta does (often unsuccessfully); CNN: what you need to know about Threads; the same from How-to Geek; Almost every influencer will be hopping on it (though I'd add, we saw the same with Google+); Twitter is threatening to sue (more) Meta over Threads; Threads 30 million downloads and has 95 million posts aready; from the Guardian, "Could Meta's Threads deal a knockout blow to Twitter?" and "Zuckerberg's kindness pledge for Threads is 'absurd', says Molly Russell charity"; Poynter asks reporters, could Threads kill Twitter?
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