Well, that didn’t take long. It’s been barely a couple of weeks since Mark Zuckerberg’s latest data-mining project, the so-called “Twitter killer” Threads was launched. And already the wheels are falling off.
Threads was created by and for the censorious wokesters who simply cannot bear the fact that, under Elon Musk’s ownership, Twitter has acquired at least a smattering of free speech. So, you’d think Threads, run by the notoriously censorious Zuckerberg cabal, would be just the place for them.
Certainly it seemed that way, with the Zuck bragging that Threads had signed up, like, a million, billion, kajillion users in a week. Except that it turned out that the Zuck was just blowing so much smoke up everyone’s arses. Threads being owned by Meta, a large number of the “sign-ups” were auto-adds from Instagram and Facebook.
Still, that didn’t stop a gaggle of woke Twitter celebrities blatherskiting that they were abandoning Twitter for good and decamping to Threads. Which turned out to be about as real as their vows to move to Canada or New Zealand.
A prime Australian example is prominent ABC luvvie Patricia Karvelas. Just a few days ago, Karvelas was “done here” with Twitter.
You don’t need to be Nostradamus to foresee how it went.
Less than a week after swearing off Twitter for good in favour of Mark Zuckerberg’s new Threads app, ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas has returned to Elon Musk’s platform.
We should start running a betting pool on these idiots.
However, after just a few days, the ABC Radio National host had suddenly reappeared on Twitter – advising that she would resume posting daily there again – still attempting to save face by stating that “if you want proper engagement I’m at the other place”.
“Proper engagement”, apparently meaning Karvelas horking The Current Thing at a diminishing gaggle of NPCs.
Despite claiming that Threads had better engagement than Twitter, Karvelas had only managed to gather less than 7,000 followers on the platform, compared to her established Twitter account which boasts almost 160,000 followers
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Which is odd, really, as Threads sounds like just the sort of safe, censored echo chamber Karvelas’ followers would adore.
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his new platform Threads would be a “friendly” place – everyone knew what that meant. His idea of kindness and friendliness would be one narrowly defined by the same people that have been on a censorship spree over the past several years […]
Zuckerberg seems to be putting a lot of emphasis on keeping Threads congenial. He stated in a Wednesday post, “The goal is to keep it friendly as it expands. I think it’s possible and will ultimately be the key to its success.” He candidly went on to take a swipe at Twitter, suggesting that its lack of success is due to its desire to support more free speech.
Of course we know perfectly well that, just as to the wokeists, “kindness” means belting old ladies in the face, and “inclusion” means violently attacking anyone who disagrees with the left’s diktats, a “friendly” place really means rigorous censorship.
Just hours after launch, Threads was caught in the eye of the storm, with allegations of stealthy censorship and unavailability of user appeals.
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Already, users are being warned against following certain accounts.
Even worse, Threads is already removing posts that are nothing but factual news reports.
The latest to trumpet his supposed departure from Twitter is mega-woke actor Ron Perlman.
Who wants to take bets on how long before he’s back, tweeting incessantly about the Bad Orange Man again?