Hughster
There are already *a ton* of UK companies, organisations, newspapers, celebrities, etc. with accounts here out of the box, all blue-tick-verified. Quite a good starting base. #Threads
After following one (popular) account, my Home feed suddenly showed me a list of random influencers. Potentially annoying, I thought. Then I followed more accounts closer to my interests, and the feed started transforming to recommend me more of the same. So it's pretty strongly algorithmic. #Threads
Some missing things becoming apparent already: alt text, post search (currently account search only), translate option on posts.
T&Cs (yes I read them) said something about "AI accessibility text" so sounds like that's coming at least. #Threads
No DMs either. Perhaps they'll be adding these into Messenger like with Instagram?
And already the hate accounts are descending on it. LibsOfTikTok, GaysAgainstG******s, and a small swarm of trolls all spewing transphobia at trans accounts. Have reported all for hate speech. Big test for their moderation. #Threads
Rolling Stone account already at 50k followers in 3 hours—the same as their follow count here. Safe to say the numbers on the doors here are impressive. #Threads
Zuckerberg just posted: "Just passed 5 million sign ups in the first four hours." Over 1m signups per hour. #Threads
Ah well, BlueSky, you had a good (invite-only beta) run.
From Zuckerberg this morning: "10 million sign ups in seven hours 🤯"
For comparison, latest estimated Mastodon user count is 13.2m. #Threads
Loads of UK journalists, media organisations, MPs, political parties, pressure groups and political analysts and activists are setting up there…
Now at 30 million subs, 16 hours in. It's accelerated from a few hours ago.
Starmer just joined, shortly after Humza Yousaf and a slew of other (mostly Labour) MPs and councillors. Can't be long until Sunak and other Tories arrive (sigh). Only Twitter rival to get such accounts AFAIK. #Threads
The Tory MPs have started arriving. Namely, so far, James Cleverly.
trisweb@hughster to their credit, it was one of the easiest signup processes I've ever seen. Nicely done.
Josh@hughster
So 1% of existing Instagram users decided to add on …
So 1% of existing Instagram users decided to add on …
@josh To be fair, when I first got on it was all Insta influencers posting the usual pictures and platitudes but they quickly got drowned out by the shitposting Twitter influx. They must be rather confused and distraught right now.
Karl Habermas@hughster I guess the cage match will now be to the death.
Darwin Woodka
Bhante Subharo ☸
Kelownagurl@hughster Which icon is the feed? The home button on the left?
@hughster I just see a lot of crap from accounts I don't follow on the home button. I assume that will change once I start following more accounts? Change as in disappear completely.
@kelownagurl Yep, mine's pretty relevant to me already after a flurry of follows and likes.
@hughster OK, I just followed a bunch of people. How do I get it to show my ONLY the people I follow?
@kelownagurl You can't, yet. Fair few gripes about it, including from some big influencers so I imagine it'll get added quickly.
@hughster Hopefully. That's a huge turnoff for me. That and no web based app.
@kelownagurl There will be a web based app; it was switched on earlier today for a few hours as a teaser.
@hughster Oh that's good news. Thanks for all your help.