Meta Threads a Needle
<p>Fuck, it’s good.</p>
<p>I both <a href="https://500ish.com/twitters-butter-facebook-s-bread-86860dd47bb3" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">thought</a> Meta should try to go after Twitter (yet again). And <a href="https://mgs.blog/something-instagram-this-way-comes-for-twitter-df03d67751c7" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">thought</a> it might actually work this time. But I honestly didn’t expect <a href="https://www.threads.net/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Threads</a> to be <em>this</em> good, this fast. I chalk that up at least half to Twitter itself, which adds new performances to the shitshow daily at this point. Threads is good, in part, because so many of us want it and need it to be good. Because Twitter is so fucked.</p>
<p>At the same time, putting it all on Twitter’s chaos is a disservice to Meta. As the company has proven time and time again, they’re really good at this social stuff. Namely, taking an idea hatched elsewhere and engineering the shit out of it. I mean, how many times has a company pushed <em>up</em> the launch of a massive new product (on top of launching it faster than they normally would have, as has been reported, thanks to the aforementioned Twitter fiascos)? That’s what Meta did yesterday — <em>launching it several hours ahead</em> of their original countdown clock.</p>
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