Meta is moments away from releasing their Twitter rival ‘Threads’ on July 7th, an app that heavily ties itself back to Instagram. It was specially timed due to Twitter’s ‘rate limit’ recent difficulties which meant that users were restricted in the amount of posts that they are able to read and take in each day. Despite its highly altruistic implications, Threads has seen limited fanfare and declaredly little confidence in the app’s longevity.
Inadvertently attempting to reaffirm confidence, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey pointed out Threads’ privacy-awareness last week by tweeting out the company’s centralizion and data harvesting. Surprisingly, albeit collected the same data Threads is collecting, but which Twitter attracted almost an instant flurry of criticism from the crypto-community.
Unrelated to that, Kyle Chasse, an infamous crypto-influencer ran a poll which attracted an estimated #️125 responders, with just only 13 choosing “Team Threads” and the remaining 112 protesters claiming their allegiance with Twitter. LinkedIn influencer and active Instagram user “Joe Fong”, hastily declared he hadn’t even heard of Threads before “this whole debacle”, displaying another example of the platform’s looming obliviousness
Nancy St Pierre, an AI developer who has delved into decrypting Matrix code takes an even harder line, affirming that Meta have been here before in late 2020, shutting down two other proposed standalone threads off the back of gradually merging them into their other products!
Well, this Friday will certainly test Thread’s prospective use and accuracy.
