{"id":175649,"date":"2023-07-14T10:36:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=175649"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:36:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:36:45","slug":"zuckerbergs-misnamed-twitter-killer-ends-up-committing-suicide-soon-after-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=175649","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Zuckerberg&#8217;s misnamed &#8216;Twitter killer&#8217; ends up committing suicide soon after birth!<\/span><\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Threads Unravels: So-Called &#8216;Twitter Killer&#8217; App Sees Exodus Of Users, Plunge In Engagements<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media and their progressive friends have spent the last nine days championing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s new social network, &#8220;Threads,&#8221; calling it a &#8220;Twitter Killer&#8221; and prophesying the demise of Elon Musk&#8217;s free-speech platform.<\/p>\n<p>Threads, the new social media app from Meta Platforms, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/metas-twitter-clone-reaches-10-million-users-hours-aoc-says-app-bricked-her\">appears to be a copy of Twitter<\/a>, was released on July 5 and quickly gained more than a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2023-07-11\/why-100-million-deranged-americans-are-dumb-enough-trust-mark-zuckerberg\">hundred million users<\/a>\u00a0in the first five days of existence. There has been tremendous hype about Threads from all corners of uber-progressive corporate media, such as The New York Times, which penned a piece titled\u00a0<em>&#8220;Threads, Instagram&#8217;s &#8216;Twitter Killer,&#8217; Has Arrived.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Federal-funded NRP News wrote, &#8220;<em>Is Threads really a &#8216;Twitter killer&#8217;? Here&#8217;s what we know so far.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>And here&#8217;s a CBS News article titled\u00a0<em>&#8220;Meta&#8217;s &#8220;Twitter killer&#8221; app Threads is here \u2013 and you can get a cheat code to download it.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So all the hype was primarily driven by corporate media, some of which appear to be a coordinated media blitz, to quickly sway the minds of the masses that Twitter is dead and Threads is the place to be. However, those efforts are failing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/13\/meta-threads-engagement-has-dropped-off-sensor-tower-similarweb.html\">CNBC<\/a>\u00a0reported new data from SensorTower and SimilarWeb shows Threads &#8220;has seen some dropoff in growth and engagement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1679811084897615874&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Funthreaded-so-called-twitter-killer-app-sees-exodus-users-plunge&amp;sessionId=b8d3f3ae3b0f25a24074ea174f4c557aa1eb0353&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1679811084897615874\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sensor Tower data shows a sizeable pullback in user engagement since Threads&#8217; July 5 launch. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the platform experienced a 20% plunge in daily active users from Saturday. User time on the platform crashed 50% from 20 minutes to just 10 minutes for the same period.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;These early returns signal that despite the hoopla during its launch, it will still be an uphill climb for Threads to carve out space in most users&#8217; social network routine,&#8221; Anthony Bartolacci, managing director at Sensor Tower, told CNBC.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Similarweb confirms the exodus of users: Threads saw a 25% plunge in daily active users between its July 7 peak and Monday for Threads users on Android phones worldwide. Time spent on the app slid from 20 minutes on July 6 to just 8 minutes on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We did see engagement drop somewhat over the weekend, and on Monday we estimate Threads had 36.6 million active users on Android.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;While there was intense interest in checking out the app initially, not every user has made a habit of visiting Threads as often as they might other social apps,&#8221; David Carr, senior insights manager at Similarweb, told CNBC.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We used Bloomberg data to reveal the media blitz by legacy media to attack Elon. News stories with the keywords &#8220;Twitter Killer&#8221; exploded during the launch of Threads and days after.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-07-14_08-39-40.png?itok=YzgIY5kC\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-07-14_08-39-40.png?itok=YzgIY5kC\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2023-07-14_08-39-40.png?itok=YzgIY5kC\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"1a166c2b-e795-4355-96c8-019107689a95\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The appeal of Threads is quickly waning. Why we don&#8217;t know the exact reasoning &#8212; some users have already reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/metas-twitter-clone-reaches-10-million-users-hours-aoc-says-app-bricked-her\">shadowbanning and algorithmic downgrading<\/a> of non-mainstream content. It could be speculated that Threads&#8217; objective is to provide agencies like the FBI and CIA with a new political messaging platform to tightly control the narrative ahead of the 2024 presidential election cycle after their control at Twitter was whittled down after Musk bought Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/unthreaded-so-called-twitter-killer-app-sees-exodus-users-plunge\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/unthreaded-so-called-twitter-killer-app-sees-exodus-users-plunge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threads Unravels: So-Called &#8216;Twitter Killer&#8217; App Sees Exodus Of Users, Plunge In Engagements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}