{"id":15587,"date":"2024-08-18T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T09:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/threads-is-just-deathly-dull-have-twitter-quitters-found-what-they-are-looking-for-on-other-networks\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T11:37:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T09:37:56","slug":"threads-is-just-deathly-dull-have-twitter-quitters-found-what-they-are-looking-for-on-other-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/threads-is-just-deathly-dull-have-twitter-quitters-found-what-they-are-looking-for-on-other-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Threads is just deathly dull\u2019: have Twitter quitters found what they are looking for on other networks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s been an exodus of users from X, propelled by Elon Musk\u2019s lurch to the far right, but the alternatives have drawbacks too<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing on @Threads<\/a> this week has been a bit like sitting on a half-empty train early in the morning while it slowly starts to fill up with people jumping on with horror stories about how bad the service is on the other line,\u201d posted the actor David Harewood on Meta\u2019s Twitter\/X rival, which from the volume of new joiners asking \u201cHey, how does this work?\u201d appeared, in the UK at least, to be having a post far-right riots bounce last week.<\/p>\n

To which some might ask, what\u2019s taken the Threads newbies so long? To say Elon Musk\u2019s tenure as the owner of the social network<\/a> formerly known as Twitter and now renamed X has been unconscionable \u2013 recent highlights include unbanning numerous far-right and extremist accounts and his one-man misinformation campaign about the UK\u2019s far-right anti-immigrant riots \u2013 would be a criminal understatement.<\/p>\n

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\nThere\u2019s been an exodus of users from X, propelled by Elon Musk\u2019s lurch to the far right, but the alternatives have drawbacks too
\n\u201cBeing on @Threads this week has been a bit like sitting on a half-empty train early in the morning while it slowly starts to fill up with people jumping on with horror stories about how bad the service is on the other line,\u201d posted the actor David Harewood on Meta\u2019s Twitter\/X rival, which from the volume of new joiners asking \u201cHey, how does this work?\u201d appeared, in the UK at least, to be having a post far-right riots bounce last week.
\nTo which some might ask, what\u2019s taken the Threads newbies so long? To say Elon Musk\u2019s tenure as the owner of the social network formerly known as Twitter and now renamed X has been unconscionable \u2013 recent highlights include unbanning numerous far-right and extremist accounts and his one-man misinformation campaign about the UK\u2019s far-right anti-immigrant riots \u2013 would be a criminal understatement. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s been an exodus of users from X, propelled by Elon Musk\u2019s lurch to the far right, but the alternatives have drawbacks too \u201cBeing on @Threads this week has been a bit like sitting on a half-empty train early in the morning while it slowly starts to fill up with people jumping on with horror …<\/p>\n

\u2018Threads is just deathly dull\u2019: have Twitter quitters found what they are looking for on other networks?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}