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If you could take Elon's money for [deleted] your [deleted], are you telling me you would pass?
Meta's "Twitter killer" app Threads is on its way – and you can get a cheat code to download it
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My worldview was crashing down until I realized that this wasn’t proof of existence of a law firm with a conscience but rather that they simply don’t want to lose.
(NB: I’m kidding of course)
Disadvantage - nobody has ever used IG to talk to other people. The IG user base wants to share photos, that’s why they were never on FB or Twitter. (You can tell I’ve been talking to my son again. Those marketing people can tell you what time someone of a certain age uses which service.)
You have to follow people to get followers on Mastodon.
Where are these followers coming from on Threads? Did you follow them? Was your account recommended to them? Were they accounts that already followed you on IG?
Well you will never be a Trump lawyer then. Or a lawyer for any of his lawyers or former lawyers.
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True, but that’s also because we like our clients to actually pay us.
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I have a LOT of group chats on IG. Photographers are inherently chatty people, lol. We just like to talk about photos most of the time, rather than random things. There will be some crossover, but among the photographers I've seen posting on Threads, they are all quite happy with the space.
Eric
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When you join Threads with your existing IG account it puts up a button stating you are now on Threads, if followers choose to they can follow you from there. So far out of my 6630 IG followers, over 600 have chosen to follow me on Threads, I'm only following 36 at the moment but will add more soon.
@mollyc I think I've got you added
I also agree with Molly about conversations on IG, I'm regularly engaged in chats there so moving that to a contextual bases system is something I think a lot of us have been ready for.
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When you join Threads with your existing IG account it puts up a button stating you are now on Threads, if followers choose to they can follow you from there. So far out of my 6630 IG followers, over 600 have chosen to follow me on Threads, I'm only following 36 at the moment but will add more soon.
@mollyc I think I've got you added
I also agree with Molly about conversations on IG, I'm regularly engaged in chats there so moving that to a contextual bases system is something I think a lot of us have been ready for.
While I don’t think you’ll go all crazy town on Threads, it will be interesting to see how many people followed somebody based on their photos only to get disturbed by their Thread posts.
Eric
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Oh yeah man I can only imagine how many will become disenfranchised lol. I will maintain a zero politics profile on there, no matter what side one is on you'll alienate 50% of your base when getting political as most of this country is split down the middle. If your goal is a professional image, stay out of politics.
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I rarely get into politics on Insta. The few times were to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the other, a woman's right to choose what's done to her own body.
Eric
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Same here, this is really the only place I talk about politics anymore.
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Just don’t do it in Technology threads; @Colstan is watching.
Eric
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It worked for me 
Let's try this one...
Let's try this one...
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It worked for me
Let's try this one...
It happens to me even for bare “threads.net” using multiple different devices. Also tried bypassing my wifi network and using 5G, just to see if my router was mangling things.
The URL gets resolved into an extremely long string of gibberish on my end. No idea why.
Ah! It seems to have something to do with iCloud hiding my IP address! When I turn that off, it works.
So it looks like threads.net is not compatible with “hide my IP address,” at least today (and at least for me).
Eric
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Yeah, the home URL doesn't appear to be anything other than a placeholder but strings passed along seem to work.
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Absolutely. My daughter has a degree in Social Media Management from SCAD and she could tell you what day and time gets the most engagement for each demographic.
