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The Daily PollTHREADS, THE TEXT-based social media app launched in July by Facebook owner Meta, has been available in Ireland since mid-December.
Threads is a spin-off of the Instagram photo app and is intended to be a rival to X, formerly known as Twitter.
The app launched in July and had 10 million sign-ups in the first few hours, mostly due to its close proximity to Instagram.
This offered the new app a built-in audience of more than two billion users, thereby sparing the new platform the challenge of starting from scratch.
However, its release in Europe was delayed over data privacy concerns.
So, today we want to know… Have you signed up to Threads?
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Why is this not flagged as a sponsored survey? Outrageous back door advertising.
@Edward Vanderlee: only when it suits this rag
Less social media is needed imho.
@HisMastersAlibi:
As he comments on a form of social media
@P.J. Nolan: This is a news site, or apparently so. Social media is something else. Google the difference now instead of bothering to reply to this comment. You’re very welcome.
@Mike: these comments are a form of social media though!
Can we stop saying “formerly known as Twitter” ?. We all know what X is now
@Ian McDonald: X is a letter in the Alpahbet, not a social media regardless of what that head bin Musk would have us use. And you didn’t have to sign up to threads, if you already had an Instagram account…
More mind poison.
Comments on Dublin being safe a closed! Says it all really when you can’t comment on a story purporting to a false narrative!
There is enough drivel in the world already
another libtarddd app like the one suppressing pro palestinian voices?!? .. with them u have to agree with their views or u get cancelled..!!
@Bass Boss: or if you are Palestinian,get exterminated.
I did and then, on the same day, deleted it. The amount of people deluded to reality proclaiming their facts with no evidence is astonishing. Childish adults pounding the table, wanting us to hear about their feelings and how everyone else around them is at fault for their slow, dwindling demise. No, thank you.
@Edward Vanderlee: Well said. I fainted when the enormity of the outrage hit me. Just recovering now with well earned a cup of tea. Etc.
@honey badger: I’d imagine you faint when you open the fridge. Go get sat down, good lad.
I was hoping that telegram would have taken all the loonies off all the other sites (including the comments section here) alas, no such luck.
Maybe they’ll all shag off to threads instead … (can’t blame a guy for having dreams)
@Wombleman: Does it really bother you that much that some randomers don’t share your opinion? That is weak as fk. Stand over your views, dude. Who cares what anyone else thinks. But if it bothers you that much, just stop going on the site. Head out for a walk instead!
Read some articles that if you want to delete threads then your instagram account will get deleted as well sounds like an easy way to get rid of IG without the 30 day wait period
@no no no: There’s an easier way. Don’t get one in the first place.
The first thing to remember about new social media is :
Curiosity killed the cat.
@Mike: I couldn’t care less who shares my opinion and am always up for healthy debate on any issue as long as the other person has a modicum of intelligence.
What I have a strong dislike for is gullible people who simply parrot whatever absolute claptrap they have been spoon fed by some internet shyster who is making money off their inability to exercise any small degree of critical thinking.
Decent film called Threads, worth a watch…
I’ve signed up to it. Gotta say I’m not loving it so far. Little interaction, heavy censorship and limited features. Ugly as sin too. But I’m giving it the good old college try. Must look for The Journal on it, love you people.
Saw a preview Tbreads post on the ‘gram designed to lure you in and check it out.. it was by the self proclaimed..ahem…“mental health guru” Bressie saying he predicts that in a few years time everyone will shun social media or something like that..but he has no evidence for it he says..He must have just been talking about a nightmare he had.
That was enough to turn me off and not sign up…worraloada tripe
I signed up. It brings nothing new to the table.
@Magnificent Mongoose. Could you not have thrown in a few more clichés. What table did it not bring anything new to – the vegetable?
Signed up at the beginning until I found nothing of interest in it so left it, has it got any better???
Theres an excellant about a Tu-22M3. Look it up. A really great thread.
Can’t find it on the app store ..
@Joseph Healy: it’s there you must not have looked hard enough.
@Joseph Healy: you can sign up from within instagram, on your profile page top right corner the 3 lines, it’s 2nd entry in the list
Totally forgot this existed till this article brought it up.
Downloaded threads when it was first available. Used it for 5 minutes before realizing how absolutely awful it was. Its X but with the algorithm of Instagram and the schizo posts of facebook, topped off with censorship guidelines even the most PC individuals would struggle to abide by. Meta is dooooooomed.
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