With the IG account dependencies, and lack of many core features, Threads feels more like an IG feature than it’s own app. Prove me wrong! TC: 700k YOE: old
I think this has got to do with product positioning. Insta is thought of as this hip product used to share and consume short form vids and images. It is hard from a consumer perspective to make the mental shift that it can also be used as a Twitter replacement if they added threads as a feature. By making it as a standalone app, it doesn't have any baggage from Instagram and easy to quickly relate to it as a Twitter replacement which would lead to more people interested in using it for its specific purpose.
Yes I agree it makes sense as a standalone app, but it’s instead in a weird gray area, which is likely for a combination of (1) ease of implementation and (2) dark pattern retention.
Sir you work at Meta…
Lol doesn’t mean I agree with everything. And also asking about perception.
It's an app on the app store. Seems pretty straightforward to me that it is a different app. It obviously uses a lot of the same fb/insta infra to work, as any new product would
Yes I agree in the literal sense. Still can’t shake the feeling of a gray area when you can’t have a threads account without an IG account.
Who cares. From user's pov it's a twitter replacement.
*** A twitter replacement that requires IG to register, and has a major header UI element straight to IG. I’d still argue the line is quite gray and this will be used to prop up q3 user #s.
I completely agree. It’s an extension of IG.
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Sure? But people may use it instead of a twitter which is a win for society (slightly)
I wonder. I’ve already seen posts about cross-app data/settings security issues, though I don’t know about validity. It will be interesting to see how moderation goes as this scales and the bots emerge.
What would be a cross-app security issue?