Dan Romero on Warpcast

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I’ll double down on my original prediction: Threads is a dud.

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My hunch is that Threads is here to stay. I think the ability to import an existing social graph is huge - better feed, better recs, etc. In my first 10 minutes on the platform I re-connected with friends who never made it to Twitter. Also, integrations with other fediverse platforms has a lot of potential.

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I don’t think so. It has potential to dethrone Twitter now that Elon started f*cking with it by limiting users how much tweets they can see, etc. I’m officially bearish Twitter for the first time since I joined back in 2009.

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Why do you think it’s a dud? It feels like more of the same to me, but what’s your reasoning?

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nir.eth 🌿🟣🐦☁️

I’m not sure about that

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Michael Pfister

I’d say it’s an instant success right now. What determines if it survives is what they optimize the feed around, and how much control they give to users to configure their feed. If it stays as a bunch of 20m+ follower influencers saying vapid things I don’t think it will last

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Connor McCormick

make it more precise and I'll make a market

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If this ends up being wrong, why do you think that is? What priors does it update for you?

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How do we define dud? I think what’s interesting to me about the potential of Threads is how they might handle virality. If they have some drama or viral moments that are worth reporting on beyond the fact that they are growing, that’s when maybe it steals the limelight from Twitter.

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Curious, do you think Mastodon and / or Bluesky are duds?

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Cameron Armstrong

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threads is for people who aren’t hot enough to be instagram queens and who aren’t intellectual or productive enough to be twitter kings trying to combine the mid leverage they have between the two to foster relevance. in that way it feels like an unimaginative and extractive social factory for clout chasers.

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I didn’t even bother the download, and am already annoyed with Twitter only talking about it.

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Agreed. Like you said: https://twitter.com/dwr/status/1676787860433690625?s=46&t=kbUluqkrtSAIaGiJXuXVAw

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The problem with threads is that they are boring because people don’t know how to write them. They are their own thing not a stupidly formatted essay

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Woke up this morning. Saw threads was a thing. Logged on and didn’t see much interesting or new, but they did reference Mastedon in the onboarding process. First thought “what does Dan Romero think.”

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Clearly so. Surprising that Zuck allowed a product to be launched with very poor thought. They didn’t consider picking the right initial network at all it seems.

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Gabriel Ayuso ⌁

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Too soon to tell tbh

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