• HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Maybe because they didn’t “sign-up”. I read somewhere that Meta just created accounts for all Instagram users automatically

      • zaph@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        They announced that all Instagram users had a shadow account. I can’t remember if they were saying it was a mistake or not but it did happen.

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    1 year ago

    I can imagine that a bunch of those are astroturfing usernames. Businesses, celebrities and the like have a big deal of value in their online identity.

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      1 year ago

      On general, yes, however threads uses your Instagram username. I think it’s just initial excitement to try something new and people getting on the anti - X / twitter / Elon train and then realising that the network effect has way more pull

  • JesterRaiin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Twitter is where all drama happens.

    It doesn’t matter that some people will register an account on Threads and even use it as their primary platform.

    They will still come to Twitter to see what “them” are doing.

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        1 year ago

        I’m actually surprised no one has pointed out the design flaw in the logo. It looks like a close window x button on browsers, especially iOS Safari. I keep wanting to close out of the window by clicking on it instead of the smaller other x.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          Oh no, that was a mistake. The guy said he didn’t and Elon said nobody saw it and besides that wouldn’t happen on such an awesome platform. /s

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            1 year ago

            I believe Elon didn’t see it. Why else would he want to keep the account up? So he could go look at the pics.