Let me pull this thread...
2023.07.10
Song of the day:
It seems like a new social media app launches every week these days — even more so since Elon Musk’s procurement of Twitter — and most are met with high hopes until everyone realizes how hard it is to rebuild your follower list in a new space. That’s how I’ve felt, anyway, but I still signed up for Post and Hive and put my name on the waitlist for BlueSky and Spill. But they were all just okay. Until late last week that is when Mark Zuckerberg reminded us he was an actual genius and rolled out Threads. And y’all, this is the one.
It’s exactly like Twitter was in the beginning — simple, fun, no drama — and the best part? When setting up the app for the first time you have the option to follow everyone you already follow on Instagram (once they download the app and join the party). Is it perfect? No. There are definitely some things that can improve, but 70 million people signed up on day one and that is unheard of in the social media game. A million people signed up in the first 90 minutes. And so naturally, Musk sued Meta (Threads’ parent company) claiming that the former Twitter engineers — hired months ago by Meta after Musk fired them — shared corporate secrets to help build Threads. I can almost guarantee that Zuckerberg has been trying to figure out a Twitter-like app much longer than Elon has owned it. But okay, exercise your right to sue.
So now I’m deciding if and when I want to fully delete my Twitter account. I don’t use it nearly as much as I used to — mostly because Musk is awful and has made the app horrible — but there are accounts I follow there that aren’t on Instagram or Threads, and I’m not sure I’m ready to let it go just yet. But I have a feeling it will be soon. I would love to see the numbers on deleted Twitter accounts since Threads launched, but I’m 100% certain that data will never be released.
And look, the Meta world or verse or whatever it’s called is problematic. The security isn’t as good as it should be, and Facebook is still pretty awful as far as hate speech and such, and Zuckerberg is, well, an entitled billionaire which presents its own set of issues, but there’s something cool about being on a new app from day one. And so far, it seems to be monitoring hate speech very closely. Zuckerberg said he wants it to be a positive space, which I applaud, but can’t imagine how long that will actually last. Still, people are having a lot of fun with it for now, me included.
Did anyone else create their Threads account? What are your thoughts so far?
So other than play with Threads all weekend, I mostly just rested and relaxed. I wasn’t feeling great on Thursday evening or all day Friday but finally got to feeling better on Saturday. I definitely ate something that was not my friend.
I did a little furniture building yesterday and have placed one of these (I built two) in its place next to the bed. I’ll deal with the other one later this week.
I don’t love it as much as I’d hoped but it’s better than the chair I was using previously. I’m sure I’ll get used to it once I figure out how to hide the cords better.
Coming up this week is the premiere of the new Mission Impossible movie, so I’m looking forward to that. I have no idea why it’s premiering on a Tuesday night but whatever. I’ll be there. Later this month I’m looking forward to seeing Barbie and may go see Oppenheimer as well. Lots of good movies this summer!
Anyone do anything fun over the weekend? Or have any fun plans coming up? Let me know in the chat.
Have a great week, everyone!aa
Video of the day:
I am also on Threads now
I haven't signed up for Threads yet. I don't know if I want to use another social media app. But I miss seeing you on Twitter.