What's Going Wrong With Meta's Threads? | Forbes

Forbes reporter William Skipworth joins "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the rise and now downward trend of Meta's Twitter rival Threads.

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[johnbroker]

Why do we even care about Facebook anymore?

[Timberns]

100 million sign ups means that most of them were bots

[teddyvetter]

They can’t see that people don’t want their speech censored!

[Brooklyn_Bleek]

It's basically a U.S. beta version of WeChat. *But, the fact that she actually said she felt more comfortable saying anything on Threads than Twitter is absolute lunacy!*

[Amandaqwerty]

Guess what? I deleted Facebook Threads and Instagram accounts all in one day!!! But they give me 30 days to reconsider. HAHAHA

[Semper_Iratus]

Censorship is a real problem with the big tech sector.

[Lonely_Goat]

40 million probably didnt even know they had signed up

[signsofplay]

Because the “signups” were fake, and the “active users” were real people. Threads sucks. Zuckerturd does too.

[widerje]

Meta is cool with Whitehouse and the alphabet suits controlling conversation with the media, gets old, boring and they never admit the falsehoods i.e Afghanistan, just disappears, yet they pitch controlling misinfo. Brilliant

[unboxedcharacter]

Most of its users were probably bots 😂😂

[censorship_sucks]

I don't use either but, it's my understanding that if you delete your threads account, it forces you to delete your IG account also. If that's the case, I guess holding your ig account hostage, is the only way they can keep threads account numbers up. Zuck can't build anything that works on his own. It seems he always has to buy things someone else created.

[mkhudn]

I wish all social media would go away.

[StopListenThink]

Nobody likes censorship that’s what’s going wrong 😑

[redstar]

They want all your information just to sign up

[jamckeon]

How sad that people are actually waking up

[thatperson]

There's no search function and only one main thread these problems need to be fixed

[softtailtc]

Americans are saying "Hey, THREADS, why don't ya'll data-scrape this right here". Nobody's interested in helping the DS train its CENSORSHIP ALGORITHMS.

[AIBangersu]

I'll say this...Unless Mark proves me wrong, I believe Threads is the worst social media launch since Google +. Remember them?

[bryandavis]

Hahaha, and they said they can just go make their own

[c-j-p]

Threads is like that new girl in the school with the big boobs. Once you get past the boobs there's nothing else there.