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More than 30 million people have signed up for Meta's new "Twitter Killer" Threads app

That got on my nerves. I did not join Facebook to see what anyone I went to high school with did on their farms. Or any other games.
I know someone who thought they were going to make a killing with Zynga stock based on how popular Farmville was, and instead they lost thousands when the stock price cratered, because Zynga couldn’t develop anything else that was as popular.
 
I avoid Meta and all it's poisons (Including Threads) like the plague. Too bad a non-Meta company didn't make the next Twit killer.
There is one company named Discord that is currently grabbing some of the framework of Meta owned Facebook for a younger audience. Yes this includes stuff that made congress go after Mark Zuckerberg in the past over facebook failures to stop certain stuff like "Toxic Politics", "Russian Propaganda" on its platforms. This time the same stuff hits Discord Social Media and its getting attention outside of GenZ over the Pentagon Leaks allegations.



 
I signed up before 9:00 a.m. West Coast time and was assigned a number in the 30-millions.

Where do you see that number?

The inability to see posts only from the people you follow makes for a very crowded timeline of stuff you likely don't care about and makes it easy for those of us who use it to communicate with an audience trying to follow us to get lost---a problem that will only get worse as the number of users grows.

You can see posts only from the people you follow. The app is just not set to do that by default, it's buried and the setting has a weird label.

Settings->Notifications->Threads and Replies->First threads->select "From people you follow"

It takes some time for the non-followed posts to fall out of your feed, and after that you'll see what you want.

Also, it desperately needs the ability to organize what you see chronologically,

This is beef with everything Facebook a..k.a. Meta owns. They force their algorithm on you. One big reason I dislike Zuck and his manipulative tactics.

and a "trending" feature would be a good idea, too.

I think they'll add it. They probably have to figure out how to do it without infringing on twitter's IP, not like that's stopped them from knocking off the rest of the site though.

I'd also like to see a Tweetdeck-style companion app since Musk just destroyed twitter's. And a web or desktop UI for PC/Mac is badly needed.

It feels like they rushed Threads to release without finishing it.
 
…all twelve of them! :rolleyes:
You might be shocked. There are other radio history pages. I'm also part of a chat that follows the American Top 40 reruns on Sirius XM on Saturday afternoons (which attracts a couple of radio PDs and Sean Ross among many others. When SXM tried to move the show we raised enough hell that SXm moved it back, and now we get on-air mentions before the show.

When I moved to Knoxville, I did my networking on Twitter, connecting with most of the media and social media folks, who I started meeting in person at events called Tweetups. I miss those.
The barista might have a better and funnier account than a formal, curated brand feed.
 
There is one company named Discord that is currently grabbing some of the framework of Meta owned Facebook for a younger audience. Yes this includes stuff that made congress go after Mark Zuckerberg in the past over facebook failures to stop certain stuff like "Toxic Politics", "Russian Propaganda" on its platforms. This time the same stuff hits Discord Social Media and its getting attention outside of GenZ over the Pentagon Leaks allegations.



Discord lets people (especially young people) communicate amongst themselves (hey Moms for Liberty, you say you can prevent your kids from knowing that gay people exist?). Ahem. One of my grandsons is in a Discord group of NASCAR fans who watch races together.
 

Elon Musk sues Meta accusing "Threads" of stealing trade secrets from Twitter. However according to legal experts Elon Musk and Twitter needs to show proof of the allegations.

DESIGNATING 'SECRETS'​

Meta launched Threads on Wednesday in what could be the first real threat to Twitter, which has alienated many users and advertisers since billionaire Elon Musk bought the microblogging site last year.

Threads shares some resemblance to Twitter, as do the numerous other social media sites that have cropped up in the last several months.

One element courts look at is whether a company made clear to employees that the specific information at issue was a trade secret.
Sharon Sandeen, a professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, said that companies have lost trade- secret cases when they claimed that employees were bound by broad agreements designating all the company's information as confidential.

Courts have said that employees have no way of knowing from such sweeping language what is and is not confidential, she said.

Companies often bring trade-secret cases only to find their claims are not as strong as they thought, experts said.

If that's the case then that opens up others to do the same if Elon Musk wins this lawsuit.
 

Elon Musk sues Meta accusing "Threads" of stealing trade secrets from Twitter. However according to legal experts Elon Musk and Twitter needs to show proof of the allegations.




If that's the case then that opens up others to do the same if Elon Musk wins this lawsuit.
Meta claims it has no former Twitter employees working on Threads.
 
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