{"id":10617,"date":"2023-07-06T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/06\/threads-review-twitter-without-the-rough-edges-or-news\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:37:35","slug":"threads-review-twitter-without-the-rough-edges-or-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/06\/threads-review-twitter-without-the-rough-edges-or-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads review: Twitter without the rough edges or news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Site has potential to suck the remaining life \u2013 and advertising revenue \u2013 out of Musk\u2019s struggling network<\/p>\n

Imagine a social network where users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves that it is impossible to imagine them leaving. Moving to a new site would be an enormous risk for users because you would lose your network of friends. The network\u2019s entire existence, the theory goes, is secured by these barriers to starting afresh at a new outlet.<\/p>\n

This was how the Guardian described MySpace in 2007<\/a>, when the early social network had 150 million global users, a number so large it was considered improbable that they would ever move elsewhere. (In the end MySpace was soon overtaken by Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook, Rupert Murdoch lost almost all the money he spent buying the site, and MySpace\u2019s once-ubiquitous founder Tom Anderson<\/a> has travelled the world on the profits ever since.)<\/p>\n

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\nSite has potential to suck the remaining life \u2013 and advertising revenue \u2013 out of Musk\u2019s struggling network
\nImagine a social network where users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves that it is impossible to imagine them leaving. Moving to a new site would be an enormous risk for users because you would lose your network of friends. The network\u2019s entire existence, the theory goes, is secured by these barriers to starting afresh at a new outlet.
\nThis was how the Guardian described MySpace in 2007, when the early social network had 150 million global users, a number so large it was considered improbable that they would ever move elsewhere. (In the end MySpace was soon overtaken by Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook, Rupert Murdoch lost almost all the money he spent buying the site, and MySpace\u2019s once-ubiquitous founder Tom Anderson has travelled the world on the profits ever since.) Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site has potential to suck the remaining life \u2013 and advertising revenue \u2013 out of Musk\u2019s struggling network Imagine a social network where users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves that it is impossible to imagine them leaving. Moving to a new site would be an enormous risk for …<\/p>\n

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