Meta to soon launch web version of Threads in race with X for users
WHY DIDN’T YOU FUCKING HAVE THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE, MARK? Honestly, the rollout of Threads was a fucking joke, clearly released before it was fully ready, and I’m not sure it’s improving:
Threads, which launched as an Android and iOS app on July 5 and gained 100 million users in just five days, saw its popularity drop as users returned to the more familiar platform X after the initial rush to try Meta’s new offering.
But in just over a month, its daily active users on Android app dropped to 10.3 million from the peak of 49.3 million, according to a report by analytics platform Similarweb dated Aug. 10.
Meanwhile, the management is moving quickly to launch new features. Threads now offers the ability to set post notifications for accounts and view them in a type of chronological feed.
It will soon roll out an improved search that could allow users to search for specific posts and not just accounts.
…What the fuck is a “type” of chronological feed? Is it chronological or not? And this improved search “could” let users do that… so it also could not do that? I’m not surprised by the drop-off in user numbers cos that was bound to happen, a lot of people were signing up out of curiosity and a lot of those were bound to not bother sticking around once that curiosity was satisfied, given how little Threads seems to have had to offer… on the plus side, I suppose I’ll soon be able to satisfy my own curiosity about Threads cos at least now I’ll actually be able to use the fucking thing, but I feel like it’s probably too late to make a difference now…
