{"id":4348,"date":"2023-07-10T17:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T01:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2023-07-26T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:42:54","slug":"first-impressions-of-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/10\/first-impressions-of-threads\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions of Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I posted this<\/a> the other day on Threads and figured I’d post it here too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few thoughts about Threads from a Product Management perspective after using it for a couple of days\u2026 First, it\u2019s fascinating to see an MVP released at this scale. Features they left out of the MVP: Follow feed, reverse chronological feed, search, hashtags, lists. That\u2019s a lot of basic features missing! But while there was a fair amount of grumbling about all of omissions – it didn\u2019t slow the insane growth that we\u2019ve seen in the first two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here are things they made sure were included – block, mute, ability to block words \/ phrases. They also heavily focused on the cold start problem and made sure that when you started on Threads, you saw a lot of activity – even if that meant you were seeing accounts you don\u2019t follow. The key thing here is they optimized for features that help people block offending \/ annoying content at the expense of basic features like search and hashtags. Tough choice but I think it was the right one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the last thing that\u2019s impressed me is the range of communities that I\u2019ve seen joining Threads. I\u2019m seeing lots of major brands, journalists, sports communities, etc. joining at a level that I didn\u2019t see on Mastodon, Post, etc. And this includes a LOT of people that I followed in the early days of Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. that I haven\u2019t seen in years. Not sure if they\u2019ll all stick around but it feels like the golden years of Twitter from 10-15 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find me on Threads here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I posted this the other day on Threads and figured I’d post it here too. A few thoughts about Threads from a Product Management perspective after using it for a couple of days\u2026 First, it\u2019s fascinating to see an MVP released at this scale. Features they left out of the MVP: Follow feed, reverse chronological […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,151],"tags":[363,362],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-thoughts-on","tag-meta","tag-threads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}