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John Gruber Jul 6, 2023

Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.

Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.

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(((Jyrki Wahlstedt)))Jul 6, 2023

@gruber Yup, and Meta is the most reliable company on Earth 😅

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John Gruber Jul 7, 2023

@jyrkiw You say that, but technically, I’d say Threads might be the most impressive online launch in the history of the internet. Incredible to just flip the switch and welcome 30 million new users in a day and, minor glitches aside, the thing just works.

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keithzg

@gruber @jyrkiw I mean it's a lot less impressive when it's piggybacking on, and feeding people in from, a service that has over 2 billion active monthly users. In fact in that context it's not that impressive of a signup total yet at all!