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Comment by msluyter | Hacker News Reader

> Twitter faltered but recovered and competitors don't have an opening any more.

Really? I dropped Twitter and have been on Threads since it opened, and afaict, it's gaining momentum, while Twitter becomes the new Truth Social.

Threads does have a different set of problems (instagram influencers showing up in your feed, for example), but mostly I just read people I'm directly following so it's not much of an issue. Perhaps eternal September hasn't arrived for it yet, but thus far I greatly prefer it.

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The news and videos about the recent airplane accident in Tokyo can be found on Twitter, people posted Twitter links, no such thing for Threads.

I'm seeing the same airplane incident text and video on Threads, Reddit, and every news website though. I'm not getting hot takes from Twitter luminaries, but I don't really mind.

What they mean the first hand videos with 50m and 13m views were posted on Twitter and not on Mastodon and Threads

https://twitter.com/alto_maple/status/1742115893285412984

https://twitter.com/ricole0704/status/1742125829818335613

I can assure you though they were posted and can be found on Threads, Mastodon, Reddit, news sites, and many other places too

Do you have an example of a first-hand account posted to those sites that got within an order of magnitude of engagement?

What I’m trying to say, but it doesn’t seem to be coming across clearly, is that the news and videos about the recent airplane accident in Tokyo can definitely be found on places such as Threads. In reply to someone who said it cannot. If the point is they don’t count as existing unless they have a certain number of likes, I’m not following why that would cancel out their existence.

What we're counting is where the originals were posted. Not reposts. People chose to upload their personal experiences to Twitter.

But how does it follow from that that the text and videos can’t be found elsewhere? Because I definitely saw them.

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