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Twitter traffic is 'tanking' as Meta's Threads hits 100 million users (www.cnbc.com)
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Meta's new text-based social app Threads has quickly gained 100 million users since launching last week, which appears to be negatively impacting traffic on Twitter. According to web analytics, Twitter traffic declined 5-11% over the first two days Threads was available compared to the previous week. Threads was able to grow rapidly by allowing users to sign up with their existing Instagram accounts and bring over some of their followers. However, Threads has not yet launched in Europe due to regulatory issues. The fast growth of Threads may solidify its position as a real competitor to Twitter, which has over 238 million daily active users.

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[–] EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"...and running across the street to an identical building that is infested with rats and cockroaches!"

Still better than Nazis.

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LibsofTiktok is approved there, so I'm not so sure. Not overwhelmingly Nazi, but Nazis are welcome as long as they don't say slurs kind of thing that centrists like.

[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They may not say the slur, but they encode it.

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly, because that's the line for centrists. Bigoted and hateful statements are perfectly acceptable in cynical corporate "neutral" spaces if they're framed "politely." As long as the bad words aren't used, they're permitted. Libsoftiktok wants nothing less than the total elimination of certain populations of people and there's no way in reality that that should be an acceptable topic of political discussion regardless of word choice.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Threads has those too.

[–] pvr@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fediverse has a lot of them too

[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately true.

[–] yozul@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

The Nazis set the fire, and now they're fleeing along with everyone else.

And hey, I'd rather have them on Threads than in here with us.

[–] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, about that …