I think both could co-exist, Elon is trying to build a premium paid platform for the "intellectual elites" which is what I feel currently.
And threads are for everyone, the general public.
For now I am good with twitter though.
And threads are for everyone, the general public.
For now I am good with twitter though.
Threads is backed by a competent run company. Sure Facebook is on the whole likely bad for democracy and the world but it’s paying its bills and has a content moderation arm (how well it works is meh).
I’m on threads, mastodon, Twitter, and post.news. Twitter still seems to be where stuff is happening but it’s slowly falling apart and I’m seeing fewer and fewer new things there.
Threads seems to be where people are going. Having your instagram network is a baller move to bootstrap Threads. And if a quarter of instagram’s users come over it’ll have more users than Twitter and it’s already going to be extremely profitable. Threads is an existential threat to Twitter.
The idea that the blueticks could be described as "intellectual elites"... Well, I very rarely actually literally laugh out loud at this website, but that did it.
That always _kind of_ was Twitter's positioning, bar the 'paid' bit (Twitter blue, well, existed, and that's about all you could say for it), but it's not something that Musk has exactly been encouraging.
That stupid blue tick is important to have people engage in discourse, it's healthy for people to talk instead of vilifing anybody not in your bubble.
To think it represents intellectual elites is a mistake and it's missing the point.