sidcow Posted July 30 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30 What happened to Threads. Is it gain any any traction. Seems they really blew their moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 30 Administrator Share Posted July 30 1 hour ago, sidcow said: What happened to Threads. Is it gain any any traction. Seems they really blew their moment. Released before it was ready. It's hard to imagine why Musk would be giving some of his government gravy to people in the government. I suspect the TikTok thing is just a massive coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 30 Moderator Share Posted July 30 1 hour ago, sidcow said: What happened to Threads. Is it gain any any traction. Seems they really blew their moment. Strangely I opened mine for the first time in ages the other day. Mine was full of RW nonsense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 30 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30 39 minutes ago, bickster said: Strangely I opened mine for the first time in ages the other day. Mine was full of RW nonsense. They've learned nothing then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 30 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30 5 hours ago, sidcow said: What happened to Threads. Is it gain any any traction. Seems they really blew their moment. What put me off that was you couldn't separate it from your instagram account. What I use Instagram for and what I use Twitter (or a similar platform) for are entirely different 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted August 2 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 I'm only sticking around on it in the hope that I'll be able to take part in the websites downfall somehow. Will never post publicly on it again. I really would like to see football clubs and all government/community organisations to start taking a stand and no longer partake in what is a modern day stormfront. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 My account was deleted the moment he took over, the issue is that a lot of new sources I like to read about is there too. Though, I'm going more and more over to reddit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 2 Moderator Share Posted August 2 1 hour ago, magnkarl said: My account was deleted the moment he took over, Yep, me too. Don't miss it at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 1 hour ago, magnkarl said: My account was deleted the moment he took over, the issue is that a lot of new sources I like to read about is there too. Though, I'm going more and more over to reddit. Deleted mine too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 I don't want to call out a specific VTer, but they used it for a local football team and not really overtly political reasons, be interesting to hear if they have seen a difference in the types of tweets promoted to them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 1 minute ago, Seat68 said: I don't want to call out a specific VTer, but they used it for a local football team and not really overtly political reasons, be interesting to hear if they have seen a difference in the types of tweets promoted to them I follow 245 other accounts. I never use the ‘for you’ option. It is spectacularly rare that I would search for something using the ‘what’s happening’ suggestions. I don’t bother reading comments from randoms in response to tweets I’ve seen. I don’t use it for porn. I haven’t used my real name. I haven’t used my real date of birth. I do not follow back. I only ever have it set on ‘following’. So other than tweets I specifically want to see, I get some adverts for bags and gambling. A Quick Look and scroll and right now the last update I saw: record shop / Welsh politics / Welsh news / S4C / advert for a bag / historian / record sale / graveyard / historian / gambling advert / football / football / south wales police It works perfectly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 4 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I follow 245 other accounts. I never use the ‘for you’ option. It is spectacularly rare that I would search for something using the ‘what’s happening’ suggestions. I don’t bother reading comments from randoms in response to tweets I’ve seen. I don’t use it for porn. I haven’t used my real name. I haven’t used my real date of birth. I do not follow back. I only ever have it set on ‘following’. So other than tweets I specifically want to see, I get some adverts for bags and gambling. A Quick Look and scroll and right now the last update I saw: record shop / Welsh politics / Welsh news / S4C / advert for a bag / historian / record sale / graveyard / historian / gambling advert / football / football / south wales police It works perfectly. I felt that was the case, it comes down to how you use it in the end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted August 2 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2 I almost don’t use it at all now. I used to use it for reference, sometimes I’d have see a tweet (typically politics related) and I’d scroll down the replies to get a sense of what people felt, occasionally glean an interesting thought from therein. Obviously that’s not an option now if I don’t have an account myself. If I want to do similar these days, I find Reddit is an ok alternative. Although that of course is its own cesspool in places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: I almost don’t use it at all now. I used to use it for reference, sometimes I’d have see a tweet (typically politics related) and I’d scroll down the replies to get a sense of what people felt, occasionally glean an interesting thought from therein. Obviously that’s not an option now if I don’t have an account myself. If I want to do similar these days, I find Reddit is an ok alternative. Although that of course is its own cesspool in places. I wanted to see replies to something that was posted on here, I found a websiite that allowed that, will see if I can locate it Edit. Nitter, its officially dead but like TPB lots of mirrors exist, I wont link an example as I am not sure on the legality but a search for nitter mirror will get a link. Edited August 2 by Seat68 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 On 02/08/2024 at 12:54, chrisp65 said: I follow 245 other accounts. I never use the ‘for you’ option. It is spectacularly rare that I would search for something using the ‘what’s happening’ suggestions. I don’t bother reading comments from randoms in response to tweets I’ve seen. I don’t use it for porn. I haven’t used my real name. I haven’t used my real date of birth. I do not follow back. I only ever have it set on ‘following’. So other than tweets I specifically want to see, I get some adverts for bags and gambling. A Quick Look and scroll and right now the last update I saw: record shop / Welsh politics / Welsh news / S4C / advert for a bag / historian / record sale / graveyard / historian / gambling advert / football / football / south wales police It works perfectly. 246 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted August 3 VT Supporter Share Posted August 3 On 02/08/2024 at 12:54, chrisp65 said: A Quick Look and scroll and right now the last update I saw: record shop / Welsh politics / Welsh news / S4C / advert for a bag / historian / record sale / graveyard / historian / gambling advert / football / football / south wales police Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 1 hour ago, Rds1983 said: He likes to rub a few out in graveyards. As an aside to this I've discovered my Dad is a closet rubber around the Selly Park/ Selly Oak area. He started with the gateway rubbing of bark then obviously he descended to dead Victorians. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 I can't get away from the "For you" nonsense when I used Twitter on my phone so I think it's time to delete it. I do need twitter but if I am forced to use it only on the PC I at least have a chrome extension that blocks any trending topics, for you etc and is the old school layout how it was a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 2 hours ago, Rds1983 said: Taphophile. you gotta love that pre Victorian gravestone art the victorians rather took the fun out of it, when this was new, 270 years ago, it would also have been painted. Bright pink sling, gold clothes, bright blue background, proper psychedelic 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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