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had of— zuckerberg and the instagram had of -- _ zuckerberg and the instagram had of —— head of instagramto keep it nice and light— is trying to keep it nice and light are _ is trying to keep it nice and light are not focused on news and political spat but i am curious— and political spat but i am curious to see if they can keep that— curious to see if they can keep that for— curious to see if they can keep that for long enough to keep people — that for long enough to keep people to stick around. i�*m people to stick around. i'm cufious people to stick around. i'm curious about _ people to stick around. i'm curious about that - people to stick around. i“n curious about that as well and we cannot ignore the timing of this. threads launching just a few months before a presidential election. they have struggled. any thoughts on how threads might handle the challenge? it how threads might handle the challenge?— challenge? it could be difficult. _ challenge? it could be difficult. others - challenge? it could be difficult. others have l challenge? it could be i difficult. others have not challe
had of— zuckerberg and the instagram had of -- _ zuckerberg and the instagram had of —— head of instagramto keep it nice and light— is trying to keep it nice and light are _ is trying to keep it nice and light are not focused on news and political spat but i am curious— and political spat but i am curious to see if they can keep that— curious to see if they can keep that for— curious to see if they can keep that for long enough to keep people — that for long enough to keep...
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instagram seemed to be trying to lessen exposure to eating disorder content. >> on instagram, for exampleer one of these coded thin inspiration search terms. it doesn't pop up with any content. instead, you're getting a screen that says here are some resources that you can call if you're struggling. we don't get anything on the tags. and even if we type sort of a partial thing here, it doesn't give us any results. so that's a good sign. >> but you can get the same thinspo content on instagram by typing in other search words. >> you're seeing these pick of people with really large thigh gaps. >> tiktok gave us warnings when we typed in words associated with eating disorders. >> on tiktok, you're often getting that pop-up, you're more than your weight, and you're still seeing all of the content underneath that. >> in a statement, the company cold cnn the safety of the tiktok community is of the utmost importance, and more than 40,000 global trust and safety professionals work diligently to protect our community. >> good morning. it's so nice to see so many people here today in support of su
instagram seemed to be trying to lessen exposure to eating disorder content. >> on instagram, for exampleer one of these coded thin inspiration search terms. it doesn't pop up with any content. instead, you're getting a screen that says here are some resources that you can call if you're struggling. we don't get anything on the tags. and even if we type sort of a partial thing here, it doesn't give us any results. so that's a good sign. >> but you can get the same thinspo content on...
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they're now suing instagram and tiktok.ammy rodriguez came across the idea of suing the social media companies on social media. >> i felt like they were telling her a story. >> reporter: and she's suing instagram, snapchat and tiktok. >> we really are trying to rectify an injustice. we have moral force. >> reporter: this attorney founded the firm that represents all three families. >> that's the story of what we're embarking on. >> reporter: he said he opened it to take on the social media companies after he heard francis haugen testify on capitol hill. >> research is aware that there are a variety of problems facing children on instagram. >> reporter: she said the company allows the harmful content to continue because it values engagement time, which means money, over safety. and she gave congress these documents that show that meta new social comparison or determining one's worth by comparing oneself to others is a problem on instagram and that the app makes one in five teens feel worse about themselves. haugen also testi
they're now suing instagram and tiktok.ammy rodriguez came across the idea of suing the social media companies on social media. >> i felt like they were telling her a story. >> reporter: and she's suing instagram, snapchat and tiktok. >> we really are trying to rectify an injustice. we have moral force. >> reporter: this attorney founded the firm that represents all three families. >> that's the story of what we're embarking on. >> reporter: he said he opened...
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instagram has it by the billions, and if they can onboar instagram users to threads, i.e. anyone who uses instagram who is interested in a more newsy version, a la twitter, they're going to come out of the gate with a huge audience, and that means potentially huge advertising revenue. >> sure. but i have to bring up the fact that, you know, facebook which is owned by meta has faced criticism when it comes to news and censorship and all of that stuff. so is there a concern with all of that? >> yes. i have made a career talking about exactly that, not only meta but very specifically instagram as well has had problems with bullying, especially bullying of young girls on the site. meta, facebook has had problems with news and misinformation. you may remember cambridge analytica. twitter is talking about, oh, we want to save your data. meta is famous for stealing it without your knowledge. this is something that instagram enters with some concern because it's not just photographs or here's my day or here's me with my friends, this is honest to goodness information about what is
instagram has it by the billions, and if they can onboar instagram users to threads, i.e. anyone who uses instagram who is interested in a more newsy version, a la twitter, they're going to come out of the gate with a huge audience, and that means potentially huge advertising revenue. >> sure. but i have to bring up the fact that, you know, facebook which is owned by meta has faced criticism when it comes to news and censorship and all of that stuff. so is there a concern with all of...
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threads is linked to meta's already popular instagram app — allowing instagram's existing two billionive users to seamlessly transition to the new platform to share text, videos and photos. zuckerberg said his goal for threads is to have "a public conversations app "with over one billion people on it." "twitter has had the opportunity to do this "but hasn't nailed it. "hopefully we will." threads debuts at a time when twitter has continued to see a rise in hate speech and some users have expressed fustration with elon musk�*s changes since his takeover in october. so, how do twitter and threads stack up against one another? twitter allows non—twitter blue subscribers to write posts up to 280 characters — while threads allows up to 500 characters per post. both allow users to post links, photos and videos on their apps but twitter limits video to two minutes and 20 seconds and threads allows videos of up to five minutes in length. well, perhaps most consequentially, verification carries over from instagram to threads users, but for twitter you have to be subscribed to twitter blue to g
threads is linked to meta's already popular instagram app — allowing instagram's existing two billionive users to seamlessly transition to the new platform to share text, videos and photos. zuckerberg said his goal for threads is to have "a public conversations app "with over one billion people on it." "twitter has had the opportunity to do this "but hasn't nailed it. "hopefully we will." threads debuts at a time when twitter has continued to see a rise in...
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instagram will try to deal with some of the pain points as they can. caroline: all the celebrities already on there. joyous for those who have been seeing the launch. thank you for that update. let's dive into the conversation with some of the financial drivers that follow success. you focus on all the social media app so let's focus on threads. it looks like it's going well. what do you think is the monetization angle ultimately here for the investors listening to us? i've seen a post about monetization not coming immediately. >> to put this into perspective, 30 million users is an incredibly strong start. we expect twitter to have about 56 million users in the u.s. by the end of this year's that gives you context for how many people threads was able to sign up just overnight. in terms of the monetization, the ads are the meta-bread and butter. i would assume that any monetization strategy for threads would include advertising. that said, i am expecting meta will wait until threads really reaches scale before they bring on any monetization opportuniti
instagram will try to deal with some of the pain points as they can. caroline: all the celebrities already on there. joyous for those who have been seeing the launch. thank you for that update. let's dive into the conversation with some of the financial drivers that follow success. you focus on all the social media app so let's focus on threads. it looks like it's going well. what do you think is the monetization angle ultimately here for the investors listening to us? i've seen a post about...
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these threats has been launch is essentially a part of or an addendum to instagram. and so it does make it when you saw i went and signed up last night with soon as you sign up, the 1st thing they ask you do is you, would you like to follow everybody who you're currently following on instagram? if they were to bring to bear the power of other networks that they have people in such as space, but or even what's app it does give this gives threats an advantage. and then some of these other platforms are at, but it's still an up till about yeah, it's doing up to about yeah, you know, we can't find a sign up for a tear into your p and union because there are concerns here in the you about, you know, protection to private data there, all kinds of concerns of attached to anything that is attached to mother and facebook. for example, the facebook is being used by the russians to influence us presidential elections. how concerned should people be that threads could be used by the russians to put out this information about the war in ukraine moving forward? yeah, i mean, so th
these threats has been launch is essentially a part of or an addendum to instagram. and so it does make it when you saw i went and signed up last night with soon as you sign up, the 1st thing they ask you do is you, would you like to follow everybody who you're currently following on instagram? if they were to bring to bear the power of other networks that they have people in such as space, but or even what's app it does give this gives threats an advantage. and then some of these other...
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instagram knows about that. kristen: i joined this morning and i am seeing a lot of asks for following. but like you said, the functions seem pretty similar with the likes, the reposts. i wonder terms of the length of video and how long the message can be. >> cracked. 500 characters and five minutes of video. you can upload 10 pictures compared to four.pictures they know the limitation , and they give people more than that. they have to work on what is missing here. there are few things like translation, if you're reading a tweet with a different language, you need some translation for that. but there is a problem here, which i hope they cancel very quickly. i am talking that threads, if i would like to delete my threads account, i have to delete mayans to graham account -- i have to delete my instagram account, too. kristen: ic. that connection helps threads at the start, but it could prove to be a problem later. in terms of the cease-and-desis letter, the accusation that basically you copied us or took some of
instagram knows about that. kristen: i joined this morning and i am seeing a lot of asks for following. but like you said, the functions seem pretty similar with the likes, the reposts. i wonder terms of the length of video and how long the message can be. >> cracked. 500 characters and five minutes of video. you can upload 10 pictures compared to four.pictures they know the limitation , and they give people more than that. they have to work on what is missing here. there are few things...
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account, you immediately are able to follow people that you follow on instagram. and so this inherently made it go there, i say viral out into a wider community and within 7 hours they had over 10000000 sign ups as a result. okay, so they have the numbers behind them. but one of the many problems that twitter had is that it struggle to make money, it to have millions upon millions of users. those trends have a more promising business model than twitter of so let's know that threads is part of meta and meta owns facebook. facebook is and has the end of the fact of standard in terms of monetizing social media, ad revenue, facebook and meta have the scale of users and as long as threads is able to reach a point in which there are is a mass user base on the platform then threads will likely monetize through ads. the problem in the struggles that twitter has had for so long is that when you compare the size of it's a social network compared to that other platforms, it is one of the smaller ones. all right, but i want to look at the united because price is not launching
account, you immediately are able to follow people that you follow on instagram. and so this inherently made it go there, i say viral out into a wider community and within 7 hours they had over 10000000 sign ups as a result. okay, so they have the numbers behind them. but one of the many problems that twitter had is that it struggle to make money, it to have millions upon millions of users. those trends have a more promising business model than twitter of so let's know that threads is part of...
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threads is part of instagram, meaning it was potentially connected to instagram's hundreds of millionsexisting accounts and their data. this is causing concerns about meta harvesting user information. >> you have this big network, friends, influencers, celebrities, as well as regular people. the data is intermingled. that is ok in the u.k. and the u.s.. the data protection commission in europe is stricter about this intermingling of data. as yet, the app is not allowed in the eu. threads will have to work hard to make the data more compatible with markets around the world where rules differ. >> a challenger to elon musk's twitter. threads launch will capitalize on its rivals problems including massive job cuts and issues with advertisers. could threads be simply exchanging one tech billionaire elon musk for another, mark zuckerberg? mark chee's lack bbc news. >> not to get more on threads i am joined by ryan heath the global technology correspondent at axios. before we get into the app itself, i want to get into reports that twitter is threatening to sue meta saying that meta hired for
threads is part of instagram, meaning it was potentially connected to instagram's hundreds of millionsexisting accounts and their data. this is causing concerns about meta harvesting user information. >> you have this big network, friends, influencers, celebrities, as well as regular people. the data is intermingled. that is ok in the u.k. and the u.s.. the data protection commission in europe is stricter about this intermingling of data. as yet, the app is not allowed in the eu. threads...
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they copy ideas from one another. instagram's own stories is a copy of sacha. it's rios is a copy of tick tock, and we haven't seen court cases competitive thought because this is something that happens in the social media industry. but it also could be a case of yet another thing that even most follows through with because he's spoken about appropriate b on, feels pressure eyes to then follow it through like the purchase of twitter. it's on the chart and getting back to this, the point you made about the normalization of people having to trace the human rights that the dates that to have access to, to information leading to stopping people to think misguided in thinking that there is no harm in giving social media companies access to so much of that personal information. i think people participate on social media, which is a global con squares to participate. it's a global, consummate in which everyone participates to communicate with one another to get messages across. it's just that they shouldn't have to trade their privacy rights and the human rights gener
they copy ideas from one another. instagram's own stories is a copy of sacha. it's rios is a copy of tick tock, and we haven't seen court cases competitive thought because this is something that happens in the social media industry. but it also could be a case of yet another thing that even most follows through with because he's spoken about appropriate b on, feels pressure eyes to then follow it through like the purchase of twitter. it's on the chart and getting back to this, the point you...
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i instagram is launching threads, not really meta, so it has been a companion after instagram, whichads but it is going to overtake twitter in the blink of an eye. doesn't feel like, if you're working at instagram, like you are going backwards, going back tojust straight text? in backwards, going back to 'ust straight text?i backwards, going back to 'ust straiahttext? ., , , , straight text? in a way, yes, but actually- -- _ straight text? in a way, yes, but aetually--- i— straight text? in a way, yes, but actually... i do _ straight text? in a way, yes, but actually... i do not— straight text? in a way, yes, but actually... i do not know - straight text? in a way, yes, but actually... i do not know you'vel actually... i do not know you've noticed it or anybody else has noticed it or anybody else has noticed that people using instagram in different ways. they are not posting as much as they used to to the main feed. instead, we are posting to our stories where they disappear after a day, and actually instagram need to keep evolving, so instagram need to keep evolving, so i think this
i instagram is launching threads, not really meta, so it has been a companion after instagram, whichads but it is going to overtake twitter in the blink of an eye. doesn't feel like, if you're working at instagram, like you are going backwards, going back tojust straight text? in backwards, going back to 'ust straight text?i backwards, going back to 'ust straiahttext? ., , , , straight text? in a way, yes, but actually- -- _ straight text? in a way, yes, but aetually--- i— straight text? in a...
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and again, as one of the other panelists was saying, instagram and met. uh, we'll have that infrastructure of the 500000000 users. the question i think will be whether they can pull those users over or whether these are very different type. whether these are people who are looking for very different types of activities. i'm not someone who uses instagram because i'm more into the news, which is where i find what i find on twitter. so i think if people find that what they're looking for is not on threads and the best beta version. and i mean, this is true in a start up community is you're trying to go for this minimum buyable product. and now that has been very clear that they are getting something out there. the question is, if people go there and are finding a product that isn't delivering what they want it to deliver, like you can edit post or that you mean their number of features that are present yet. if they go there and find that, that's not a satisfactory experience, it might go the way of mastodon, which i think also have some high, initially the
and again, as one of the other panelists was saying, instagram and met. uh, we'll have that infrastructure of the 500000000 users. the question i think will be whether they can pull those users over or whether these are very different type. whether these are people who are looking for very different types of activities. i'm not someone who uses instagram because i'm more into the news, which is where i find what i find on twitter. so i think if people find that what they're looking for is not...
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threads, three instagram, will have access to the people on instagram,, so when instagram does something entering this competition. yes, watch this _ entering this competition. yes, watch this space. _ entering this competition. yes, watch this space. chris, - entering this competition. yes, watch this space. chris, good to have you with us. meta has very deep pockets, but can they make it pay? we will find out, i'm sure. as african countries try to recover from the impact of the war in ukraine and the covid pandemic, they are turning to financial institutions like the international monetary fund to jump—start their economies, but the conditions attached to the imf loans have been criticised for increasing social inequality, as the bbc�*s jewel kiriungi reports from central kenya. faith karimi was a trained nutritionist working in a major hospital before she was retrenched after eight years. she's now back in her village farming. it was a nasty pill to swallow because at that time, my child was young. there you are. you have... i had my mum, whom i was to take care of. so it was painful.
threads, three instagram, will have access to the people on instagram,, so when instagram does something entering this competition. yes, watch this _ entering this competition. yes, watch this space. _ entering this competition. yes, watch this space. chris, - entering this competition. yes, watch this space. chris, good to have you with us. meta has very deep pockets, but can they make it pay? we will find out, i'm sure. as african countries try to recover from the impact of the war in ukraine...
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i am not on instagram _ threads user is now? i am not on instagram or _ threads user is now?on instagram or facebook. - threads user is now? i am not on instagram or facebook. i l threads user is now? i am not. on instagram or facebook. i am not the best person to talk to, i have to admit.— not the best person to talk to, i have to admit. thank you. we will speak— i have to admit. thank you. we will speak to — i have to admit. thank you. we will speak to you _ i have to admit. thank you. we will speak to you again. - i have to admit. thank you. we will speak to you again. it - will speak to you again. it will speak to you again. it will be interesting to see what our viewers think of this. treat us on twitter to let us know if you are using threads, what you make of it. to china now, where us treasury secretary janet yellen is arriving shortly for a four—day visit aimed at rebooting communications between the world's two biggest economies. billions of dollars worth of trump—era import taxes or tariffs are still in place between the two sides. and more recently, tensions have
i am not on instagram _ threads user is now? i am not on instagram or _ threads user is now?on instagram or facebook. - threads user is now? i am not on instagram or facebook. i l threads user is now? i am not. on instagram or facebook. i am not the best person to talk to, i have to admit.— not the best person to talk to, i have to admit. thank you. we will speak— i have to admit. thank you. we will speak to — i have to admit. thank you. we will speak to you _ i have to admit. thank you....
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they came to instagram so someone saw me on i instagram so someone saw me on twitter— instagram so someone _ there and i reported it because it was so violent and _ there and i reported it because it was so violent and he _ there and i reported it because it was so violent and he just - there and i reported it because it was so violent and he just got i was so violent and he just got convicted _ was so violent and he just got convicted for— was so violent and he just got convicted for it. _ was so violent and he just got convicted for it. malicious - convicted for it. malicious communications - convicted for it. malicious communications act. - convicted for it. malicious communications act. and | convicted for it. malicious - communications act. and has been sentenced — communications act. and has been sentenced. ., communications act. and has been sentenced-— sentenced. how did you find the olice sentenced. how did you find the police and _ sentenced. how did you find the police and their— sentenced. how did you find the police and their approach - sentenced. how did you find the police a
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well, now that it happens, if the european union advertising market is very valuable for instagram, instagram will come and define a new type of service for european users. self out i will no longer provide services to european users. someone entered iran with a vpn . it is up to him to remove his name from the european legislative area. it depends on what the market value of this area is for dogs. europe is responsible. now the question is this is where every country is required to have a picture of a man who has a food market for social media according to these networks and social media . if he doesn't have it, they say, "we officially serve this country." we give this to people with vpn it is possible and they actually remove themselves from this jurisdiction by not being fined. mr. world social media day , please explain to the viewers that some of those social media that we are talking about in the media and in different sectors, where is this framework? which space do you mean, social networks, different social media, and in the ambush that these social media are children of principles
well, now that it happens, if the european union advertising market is very valuable for instagram, instagram will come and define a new type of service for european users. self out i will no longer provide services to european users. someone entered iran with a vpn . it is up to him to remove his name from the european legislative area. it depends on what the market value of this area is for dogs. europe is responsible. now the question is this is where every country is required to have a...
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instagram direct with will soon _ be lifted. instagram direct with will soon follow - be lifted.l soon follow and l with will soon follow and twitter is building the future into its bat. private experts celebrate the trade with government increasingly concerned, but why? it's because of how clever the secure technology is. let's say that i am the server of internet company and these people are trying to send messages. sending readable information over the internet is a pretty bad idea. it is aptly messages could read them so these days nearly all information we share over the internet adapted which means it is scrambled and therefore protected from prying eyes. a bit like putting a note in a locked box, the managers are protected when they leave us, processed by the app server and sent onto the recipient. but with most forms of encryption the company can unscramble the data. they have the keys to read our messages. sometimes they share them with others like the police. hackers can also access our unsecured data by reaching internet companies. and encryption goes a step further. m
instagram direct with will soon _ be lifted. instagram direct with will soon follow - be lifted.l soon follow and l with will soon follow and twitter is building the future into its bat. private experts celebrate the trade with government increasingly concerned, but why? it's because of how clever the secure technology is. let's say that i am the server of internet company and these people are trying to send messages. sending readable information over the internet is a pretty bad idea. it is...
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threads is part of instagram which means it could potentially connect to instagram's hundreds of millionsnts and their data. this is causing concern around meta harvesting users' information. this big network and you have lots of friends, influences and celebrities as well as regular people. the data is being intermingled and whilst that is ok in the uk and the us, the data protection commission in europe is more strict about this mingling of data. as yet, this app is not allowed to work in the eu and threads will have to work hard to make the data are compatible with markets around the world. a challenger to elon musk�*s twitter. the launch of threads look set to capitalise on rivals' problems including job cuts and issues with advertisers, but could ditching twitter for threads be exchanging one tech billionaire, elon musk, for another in the shape of mark zuckerberg? for more i'm joined by ryan heath, global tech correspondent at axios. threads is very similar to twitter, but as we heard in the piece, there are some key differences. twitter is threatening to sue meta— hiring former emp
threads is part of instagram which means it could potentially connect to instagram's hundreds of millionsnts and their data. this is causing concern around meta harvesting users' information. this big network and you have lots of friends, influences and celebrities as well as regular people. the data is being intermingled and whilst that is ok in the uk and the us, the data protection commission in europe is more strict about this mingling of data. as yet, this app is not allowed to work in the...
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now we know that instagram has a 1000000 users worldwide. let me just the sheer numbers here of these numbers obviously make the chances of for threads to be the one to the throne. twitter makes those chance is as good as anybody's doesn't. it are. right? i mean, so this has been the pattern we've seen with social media of companies and social media platforms, which is that when you don't introduce something new, what we call a new affordance, a new characteristic of the platform, it's very hard to the throne, the incumbent, like if you look at upstarts that have been successful, you have things like twitter which introduce micro blogging or i instagram which introduce sharing photos or tick tock which introduce short form videos. and since may i ask, who's taking over twitter, we've seen lots of different kind of various types of twitter clowns that have come about. we've seen truth social, we've seen blue sky, we've seen mastodon, and then there's more of these out there. and in all cases, there's a bit of fanfare when they 1st started off
now we know that instagram has a 1000000 users worldwide. let me just the sheer numbers here of these numbers obviously make the chances of for threads to be the one to the throne. twitter makes those chance is as good as anybody's doesn't. it are. right? i mean, so this has been the pattern we've seen with social media of companies and social media platforms, which is that when you don't introduce something new, what we call a new affordance, a new characteristic of the platform, it's very...
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on instagram. you have a homepage, a search bar and the heart icon, and you get notifications . you can see replies and mentions. the app is described as instagram's textbased conversation up . elon musk has been making changes to twitter like limiting nonpaying members to sing no more than 600 tweets per day . after other changes like taking away blue checkmarks unless you pay. a former twitter executive says met is positioning itself at the perfect time. >> the user base of instagram is tremendous and given how volatile twitter is right now, it would not be that hard. it would not take much to be a great improvement to provide the kind of experience. >> more than 10 million people signed up to join threads within the first seven hours of its launch. to put that into perspective, according to forbes it took facebook 852 days to reach 10 million users. twitter reach 10 million and 780 days. it has not been 24 hours but it is clear this could be a pretty big rival to twitter. we will talk more about
on instagram. you have a homepage, a search bar and the heart icon, and you get notifications . you can see replies and mentions. the app is described as instagram's textbased conversation up . elon musk has been making changes to twitter like limiting nonpaying members to sing no more than 600 tweets per day . after other changes like taking away blue checkmarks unless you pay. a former twitter executive says met is positioning itself at the perfect time. >> the user base of instagram is...
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stories is modelled after snapchat, and instagram reels is modelled after tiktok.fer some selling points that it's some selling points that its competitors don't. for example, like ijust mentioned, how instagram users can automatically follow their friend list when migrating threads, threads is built on a decentralised infrastructure, meaning it might potentially offer interoperability with non— meta apps like mastodon. this is something we haven't seen from major social media apps in the past.— apps in the past. sorry to interrupt _ apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, _ apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just - apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just to - apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just to say | interrupt you, just to say in terms of the european union take on this at the moment, ie, it is not available here right now, we are still checking up regulatory issues we are concerned about, is that a big dealfor concerned about, is that a big deal for the launch of this, or is thatjust an obstacle they will overcome in time? what are y
stories is modelled after snapchat, and instagram reels is modelled after tiktok.fer some selling points that it's some selling points that its competitors don't. for example, like ijust mentioned, how instagram users can automatically follow their friend list when migrating threads, threads is built on a decentralised infrastructure, meaning it might potentially offer interoperability with non— meta apps like mastodon. this is something we haven't seen from major social media apps in the...
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to sign up for this, my thought is instagram's picture base. not very text base. so that user base will be interested in this. but they did get a lot of celebrities on it. so you know you will get some generation z on there. >> i know what you have a crazy one thing, the thread right what is it called? i twitter is called the twitter a thread is a post, but opposes the opposes the bits are on am confused? >> i am with you on this. i am calling it a post. but they are calling it a thread. i guess, a group of tweets in our language from twitter would be a thread. >> kelly o'grady great stuff thank you coming up first lady president biden is our education present. even though the national test scores are in rapid decline. common sense and cory the angeles will weigh in on that next. later in the night cap, told you about mehta's new threads app, you know the one hoping to dethrone twitter? now we want to know if you would switch to threads or stay on threader, or use both? let us know what you plan to do, and why you plan to do it. twitter an inst
to sign up for this, my thought is instagram's picture base. not very text base. so that user base will be interested in this. but they did get a lot of celebrities on it. so you know you will get some generation z on there. >> i know what you have a crazy one thing, the thread right what is it called? i twitter is called the twitter a thread is a post, but opposes the opposes the bits are on am confused? >> i am with you on this. i am calling it a post. but they are calling it a...
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meta says the app will be linked to instagram appears will be free.witter after billionaire owner elon musk announced a cap on how many people could see each day. popular user dashboard tweetdeck will also go behind a pay wall in 30 days' time. if you are a renter you probably know how tough things are now, from rent increases to difficulty finding a place. the bbc has found that thousands of rental ads say children and pets aren't welcome. it's not illegal but it can make things harder for certain groups. 0ne homelessness charity, shelter, says 1—in—5 families are barred because of their children. this includes many single parents. mps are considering more protections for renters in england. they'll be part of a bill that is currently in the house of commons called the renters (reform) bill. for ten seconds of a pretty sight in the sky, it is called a full buck supermoon and looks a bit bigger and brighter than normal because it is closer to earth than usual. 21,000 kilometres, that is, in fact. you are all caught up now. see you later.
meta says the app will be linked to instagram appears will be free.witter after billionaire owner elon musk announced a cap on how many people could see each day. popular user dashboard tweetdeck will also go behind a pay wall in 30 days' time. if you are a renter you probably know how tough things are now, from rent increases to difficulty finding a place. the bbc has found that thousands of rental ads say children and pets aren't welcome. it's not illegal but it can make things harder for...
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instagram is launching threads, not really meta, so it has been a companion app for instagram, which ten instagram users use threads, it is going to overtake twitter in the blink of an eye. does it feel, if you're working at instagram, like you are going backwards, going back to just straight text? in a way, yes, but actually... i do not know you've noticed it or anybody watching has noticed that people are using instagram in different ways. they are not posting as much as they used to, to the main feed. instead, we are posting to our stories, where it disappears after a day, and actually instagram need to keep evolving, so i think this is its latest roll of the dice to try and win favour with increasingly ageing audience, in an increasingly competitive social media environment where it is up against the likes of tiktok, youtube and other twitter copycats. so if you are elon musk now, how worried are you by the launch of this? he has many worries. there is the fight, there is the launch of this. i think he will be pretty worried. instagram, meta, facebook, they made 116 billion in ad
instagram is launching threads, not really meta, so it has been a companion app for instagram, which ten instagram users use threads, it is going to overtake twitter in the blink of an eye. does it feel, if you're working at instagram, like you are going backwards, going back to just straight text? in a way, yes, but actually... i do not know you've noticed it or anybody watching has noticed that people are using instagram in different ways. they are not posting as much as they used to, to the...
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. >> instagram and tiktok. >> how come? >> it is just entertaining, it is easier to use. >> i like to scroll on there, the explore page and the for you page and stuff. it's just the app where i can do whatever i wanted >> let's bring in scott budman. it's always something. but let's start with the data mining explanation. is that really an explanation? >> not really. here is where i might have some credence. after all, bots are swarming for twitter, swarming all over the internet, and they may take some of your information, they may also clog up twitter a little bit. so, elon musk has taught since the beginning of trying to get rid of thoughts. it's hard to do, and if you limit that factor on twitter, that's good, but if you have to do it by eliminating actual users and how often they can go, it's bad. that is why we are seeing this rubble. >> one of the things that has happened with twitter, it has lost a lot of advertisers, right? doesn't that let you in a situation where you have less eyes on ads as he is trying to rebui
. >> instagram and tiktok. >> how come? >> it is just entertaining, it is easier to use. >> i like to scroll on there, the explore page and the for you page and stuff. it's just the app where i can do whatever i wanted >> let's bring in scott budman. it's always something. but let's start with the data mining explanation. is that really an explanation? >> not really. here is where i might have some credence. after all, bots are swarming for twitter, swarming...
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quarters of advertisers on instagram are using reels so thatis instagram are using reels so that iseen out of concern about as well as tiktok eating into metal mac revenues and with information like that, with three quarters of advertisers using it, it is hard to argue that reels is doing better—than—expected. facebook has also been —— mehta has also been developing tools to help advertisers improve the efficiency of their advertising and help to drive better performance for their ads. a programme called advantage plus. they talked about that a lot today. that is another factor that is helping, so this is really helping advertisers to have more confidence in a matter than perhaps they might have had in the past quarters. and what about the metaverse, still losing a lot of money at the moment?— still losing a lot of money at the moment? definitely. the se . ment the moment? definitely. the segment of _ the moment? definitely. the segment of the _ the moment? definitely. the segment of the company - the moment? definitely. the segment of the company is i segment of the company is losi
quarters of advertisers on instagram are using reels so thatis instagram are using reels so that iseen out of concern about as well as tiktok eating into metal mac revenues and with information like that, with three quarters of advertisers using it, it is hard to argue that reels is doing better—than—expected. facebook has also been —— mehta has also been developing tools to help advertisers improve the efficiency of their advertising and help to drive better performance for their ads....
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looks like a mash-up of, like, instagram, facebook, and twitter. >> reporter: content creator, drex lee, who makes money as an influencer on instagram, selected today for a sneak peek, and he's already posted ten times what grade do you give it so far? >> i mean, everything has been running pretty smoothly, so i would give it, like, an "a. >> reporter: the growing rivalry between zuckerberg and musk might even get physical the two trading barbs about a potential cage match, but it's their battle for micro bloggers that is the prize fight of the moment >> this fight is about so many things. this is about users. it's about money it's about ideology. it is about power. >> reporter: zuckerberg potentially sensing twitter's vulnerability after a string of what some see as musk's social media mishaps, just days ago imposing limits on how many posts twitter users can read per day musk's controversial comments also pushing users and advertisers away >> i'll say what i want to say, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it. >> reporter: and with threads appearing to allow users to
looks like a mash-up of, like, instagram, facebook, and twitter. >> reporter: content creator, drex lee, who makes money as an influencer on instagram, selected today for a sneak peek, and he's already posted ten times what grade do you give it so far? >> i mean, everything has been running pretty smoothly, so i would give it, like, an "a. >> reporter: the growing rivalry between zuckerberg and musk might even get physical the two trading barbs about a potential cage...
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, i was able to follow everyone that i follow on instagram so you're there with your instagram friendsds and facebook friends. it is pretty exciting right now. staying power is the big question. i don't think it is a mass appeal that, this is about capturing more time of the already existing service. >> the thing from a advertising perspective that advertisers will flock to this? have they built a better mousetrap? i don't see advertising on this currently. people have long said the problem with twitter from advertising was the mousetrap, the construction of how advertising works on twitter does not have the same efficacy as it does on facebook and clicking on instagram ads i have not historically clicked on twitter ads, do you think that will change the format? >> there are no ads right now. i spoke with the vp of products, they want to launch with ads and clearly they will come. they will have a user base and they will want to monetize it. i agree twitter has not been a great ad experience, maybe if meta can innovate, they have not done much, this is a twitter clone a lot of copy and
, i was able to follow everyone that i follow on instagram so you're there with your instagram friendsds and facebook friends. it is pretty exciting right now. staying power is the big question. i don't think it is a mass appeal that, this is about capturing more time of the already existing service. >> the thing from a advertising perspective that advertisers will flock to this? have they built a better mousetrap? i don't see advertising on this currently. people have long said the...
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it is an instagram branded version of twitter.re are differences but it is the closest comparison to a functional twitter we have right now. >> another app for me to post on. thanank you so much. we appreciate it. >>> let's look at in money watch report. the latest inflation report is out. consumer prices roast 3%. the slowest pace in two years. most of us having to do with lower cost at a time when prices are running any more than 40 year high. the fed will still likely bump operates in july. housing costs lead the rise in consumer prices while used cars and airfares softened. looking at the markets and how they are reacting this morning. we take a look at the big board. we are up in the green. >>> we are beginning to warm up as we head into the rest of this week and into the weekend. the national weather service has called for an excessive heat watch as an area of high pressure moves this way and from the south and that will heat us up and dry us up and we are feeling the warmth in our inland areas with 90s. look at the bay area
it is an instagram branded version of twitter.re are differences but it is the closest comparison to a functional twitter we have right now. >> another app for me to post on. thanank you so much. we appreciate it. >>> let's look at in money watch report. the latest inflation report is out. consumer prices roast 3%. the slowest pace in two years. most of us having to do with lower cost at a time when prices are running any more than 40 year high. the fed will still likely bump...
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instagram to this app.ore than 1 billion users. facebook has nearly 3 billion people on the platform. the numbers are staggering. it does have potential by the numbers. whether it can reach that, we will have to wait to see. >> at super interesting because you draw on your existing popularity on instagram because historically some people have major followings on twitter and measly followers on instagram and vice versa. i wonder if this will change who ultimately has influence on the platform? >> it will and you are right because take a look at my numbers. there's 114 thousand people that follow me which compares to 14 in the half thousand people on instagram. the conversations will still be driven by the influences of that instagram space. before the launched that is what mark zuckerberg said. it's meant to be kept friendly. >> do we know how they are planning to monetize the plot form? >> that is one of the key elements. twitter has lost some of its advertisers in particular and hopefully threads will take
instagram to this app.ore than 1 billion users. facebook has nearly 3 billion people on the platform. the numbers are staggering. it does have potential by the numbers. whether it can reach that, we will have to wait to see. >> at super interesting because you draw on your existing popularity on instagram because historically some people have major followings on twitter and measly followers on instagram and vice versa. i wonder if this will change who ultimately has influence on the...
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but -- i was really active on instagram and just knowing this is from instagram and meta. just made it so easy. >> very easy. >> that's the case with everyone. >> i'm curious in seeing what my screen time report is going to look like by the end of the week. >> don't check it. >> another app. >> you don't need to check it. >> i get the notifications. >> turn it off. >> good idea. >>> well, of course we are going to be talking a lot more about threads in the 7:00 a.m. hour. we are going to be talking to cnet's senior writer so that's going to be coming up in the 7:00 a.m. hour. lot more to talk about, jess. with threads. she's pretty active i will say. amanda? have you downloaded it yet. >> i'm working on it. my goodness all morning. >> she said that a half hour ago. >> sheer, get to it when i get to it i feel like i'm having major fomo right now. everyone is still into it. >>> it is 6:36. the market just opened about six minutes ago and let's take a quick check on the big board. a lot of red this morning and down almost 300 points right now for the dow jones. before we head
but -- i was really active on instagram and just knowing this is from instagram and meta. just made it so easy. >> very easy. >> that's the case with everyone. >> i'm curious in seeing what my screen time report is going to look like by the end of the week. >> don't check it. >> another app. >> you don't need to check it. >> i get the notifications. >> turn it off. >> good idea. >>> well, of course we are going to be talking a lot...
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but also the link to instagram. unlike the other sites where you went on one at a time and tried to bring your friends over, if you're on instagram, you can click and instantly bring your friends over and follow them and have them follow you. it's an instant -- i mean there are 2.5 billion people on instagram, and it could potentially all head over to threads. so you have this real, real strong backbone already, and you see why it already has a thriving community. and one day they say it has as many as 40 million, maybe 50 million users in 24 hours. it took facebook three years to get that many users. >> i signed up. it was very easy. it just connected it through my instagram basically. >> right. >> elon musk, twitter, it's gone through a lot of changes in recent months, like the check mark and then you can only see a certain amount of tweets. i mean is this an opportunity for smaller companies to take twitter followers? >> very much so. this is a really good opportunity because twitter has had a terrible week start
but also the link to instagram. unlike the other sites where you went on one at a time and tried to bring your friends over, if you're on instagram, you can click and instantly bring your friends over and follow them and have them follow you. it's an instant -- i mean there are 2.5 billion people on instagram, and it could potentially all head over to threads. so you have this real, real strong backbone already, and you see why it already has a thriving community. and one day they say it has as...
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it's built with a text based conversation that this link to instagram. i'll just say was mike kind of has the details now from washington, dc. the up went on line, 50 knowledge before it scheduled launch a sign of how iga metas mark zuckerberg is to challenge to and by association with his own a fellow billionaire. you learn musk creating a new social media platform has long being zuka books, pit project. this is the future that you want to see. then i hope that you will join us because the future is going to be beyond anything we can imagine. threads is linked to instagram and closely resembles, put to, however, tweet so cold threads and retweet so cold. re post posts on threads can be 500 characters long as compared to 284 most to uses. i think threads is going to play as a huge threat to, to, to, because it's coming from the meta and it's the ground family of ops. instagram has 2000000000 uses compared to around 250000000 of twits us. it's about 10 times bigger already. so if somebody wanting to and instagram uses, tries using threats, it's either tak
it's built with a text based conversation that this link to instagram. i'll just say was mike kind of has the details now from washington, dc. the up went on line, 50 knowledge before it scheduled launch a sign of how iga metas mark zuckerberg is to challenge to and by association with his own a fellow billionaire. you learn musk creating a new social media platform has long being zuka books, pit project. this is the future that you want to see. then i hope that you will join us because the...
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the ceo of instagram is saying don't worry, we are working on it.ou just have to be patient because what they did is because elon musk is having trouble with twitter, they moved or. they capitalized on the trouble so they are not perhaps as ready as they would like to be but that initial reaction, 70 million people, even though it's facebook and they have this big head start against instagram, getting 70 billion people to download a new app in the space of a couple of days is a remarkable feat. caroline: you mentioned elon musk. in a wedding, there is that moment where someone might speak against this nuptial and i feel elon musk is that guy. he might say i protest. what is going on? what is the realism of this legal letter? >> the particular lawyer that sent the letter has been the right-hand manned of elon musk and all his legal battles. until we see the substance of any complaint, it's hard to know. letter made some claims that there were people at meta that were taken from twitter purposely to build threads. caroline: even though twitter has los
the ceo of instagram is saying don't worry, we are working on it.ou just have to be patient because what they did is because elon musk is having trouble with twitter, they moved or. they capitalized on the trouble so they are not perhaps as ready as they would like to be but that initial reaction, 70 million people, even though it's facebook and they have this big head start against instagram, getting 70 billion people to download a new app in the space of a couple of days is a remarkable feat....
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i mean, we know that instagram once have facebook, you know, they're all part of the same company. we know the history that meta has when it comes to that, that'd be that. why would we think that threads is, is any safer for our private data? sure, i think is a really good question. so those of us who monitor this information and this information have often been critical of facebook policies. but let me be clear to the policies of facebook. meta emitted general are vastly security on this front to twitter as policies under most. so if you're worried about data security, i think you're right to be, but i think you'd be much, you'd be more right to be more concerned about twitter under most. i've got 30 seconds left. what do you say then about the european union? it doesn't. we weren't, we don't have threats in the app store available right now. and it's because of this worry about what happens to your data. is the you being yeah, over worried here as a class, but again, i think it makes a lot of sense to be cautious and skeptical. is a policy makers of air in the past, and they have
i mean, we know that instagram once have facebook, you know, they're all part of the same company. we know the history that meta has when it comes to that, that'd be that. why would we think that threads is, is any safer for our private data? sure, i think is a really good question. so those of us who monitor this information and this information have often been critical of facebook policies. but let me be clear to the policies of facebook. meta emitted general are vastly security on this front...