Dan Romero on Warpcast

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Threads is going to generate a bunch of buzz and then fade after a few months because the best Twitter posters don’t have enough of an overlap on Instagram (if they use it at all). Twitter is about the unique accumulated social graph + 15 years of habit.

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Related reading: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

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I think the overlap isn’t strong but the existing Instagram folks will bring on their audiences, which might be enough to carry Twitter creators on since they’re starved for audience on the other Twitter-like platforms.

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Could be a play for brands to further monetize their Instagram audiences more than it is for the individual posters and content creators of Twitter

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Threads is not a tool for Twitter posters imo. There are thousands of creators (some of them incredibly good) doing educational content on Instagram. It's about giving them a better tool to share their content.

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the idea that they will provide a tool which allows people to maintain their graph in a format they don’t control is really interesting

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Do have 7 invites is someone needs one.

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Agree with your points on the distinct user bases of Twitter and Instagram. But, evolution is inevitable in social platforms. Threads on IG might carve its own niche, just like how Stories found success despite initial skepticism. Who knows tho

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There is a lot of Instagram creators that can't / don't want to go to Twitter bc it's too toxic. My bet is Meta target to make Threads a safe place, with cool funny content but without the downside, with more moderation features & closed spaces.

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Yup — seems like a weird wasted effort on Meta’s part. Actually, feels like an ego run at Elon actually.

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I’m curious to see how it goes — I have roughly double the following on IG as Twitter, 40k vs 20k, but I post once a month at best so engagement is non-existent Really curious to see what the algorithm is for threads and if they intend to drive traffic/engagement toward those that adopt it early

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Maybe they capture some subset of Twitter's graph that wants to flee from Elon. But are they going to offer any net new 0->1 capabilities over the old paradigm?

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